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- Laser Printer
- A printer that uses a laser and the electrophotographic method to print a full page at a time. The laser "paints" a charged drum with light, to which toner...
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- HP's kinder, gentler stance toward printer paper
- A question and a comment[i]"I am now shoving the paper that I just used to print a press release about the HP program back into my printer so that at least both sides are used."[/i]Question: For 20 years at other employers and home I did that and it worked fine....
- Tags: Printers, printer, humidity, Hewlett-Packard Co., laser printer
- Discussion threads 2009-10-20
- MICR Font Set 6.1 (Windows)
- Want to print your own checks on your laser printer from Windows? The bottom sequence of numbers on a check must be printed in a special font called MICR or E-13B. This font includes the numbers 0 through 9 and four special characters: On-Us, Transit, Amount, and Dash. MICR printing...
- Tags: Check, Laser Printer, Microsoft Windows, Laser, Font, Elfring Fonts, Printers, Hardware, Peripherals
- Software downloads 2009-08-24
- OKI C3600n color laser printer
- OKI C3600n color laser printer by CNET News.com
- Tags: Laser Printer, Laser, Printers, Hardware, Peripherals, CNET News.com
- Image galleries 2009-03-25
- Top laser printers: ZDNet's guide to the best
- Top laser printers: ZDNet's guide to the best...or for an even better color printer...Xerox Phaser 8560Can't beat the solid ink technology for color or quality. Not a laser, but a phaser, and in the same price range, this is a real steal. I user one here at my...
- Tags: Printers, laser, Xerox Corp., printer, laser printer
- Discussion threads 2009-03-21
- Top laser printers: ZDNet's guide to the best
- Printers can be so, so cruel. A misbehaving printer can make a work day a living nightmare. Paper jams. Read errors. Sitting there waiting for more documents to print, happy as a clam, while you pace back and forth from your office to the printer wondering how...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Page, HP LaserJet, Network, Laser Printer, Laser, Printers, Hardware, Peripherals, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2009-03-20
- Lexmark releases new laser printers with built-in Draft N Wi-Fi
- The days when printers with network connectivity were intended just for the corporate world are quickly coming to a close as more and more manufacturers not only add an Ethernet port to their offerings, but are placing Wi-Fi chips in units as well. Among the rash of new laser printers...
- Tags: IEEE 802.11g, Laser Printer, built-In, Draft-N, Laser, Lexmark International Inc., Printers, Ethernet, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Hardware, Peripherals, Networking, Sean Portnoy
- Blog posts 2008-10-23
- Only 23% of printers in China are inkjets
- China’s hardcopy peripheral market share of inkjet printers has fallen drastically from 31% in Q3 2007 to 23% in Q4 2007, according to IDC. Sales of laser printers were also higher than inkjet printers for the first time in Q4 2007. Laser printers accounted for nearly 30% of the total...
- Tags: Inkjet Printer, Laser Printer, Laser, Printers, Hardware, Peripherals, NB
- Blog posts 2008-05-19
- Brother HL-2170W
- The Brother HL-2170W laser monochrome printer provides a viable alternative to the bottomless money pit that has become today's inkjet printer. Modern photo, tricolor, and high capacity ink cartridges can cost anywhere between $20 to $100 per refill, so multiply that by your volume of prints and try not to...
- Tags: Printers, Wi-Fi, printer, wireless, Brother Hl-2170w, laser, laser printer, HL-2170W
- Product reviews 2008-03-19
- Sweetening the deal: Samsung offers recycling service for laser printers
- Can do little more than point to this one, because I wasn't briefed, but I found it interesting because I think the printer's role in green tech is still under-appreciated. So, if you're concerned about how to dump your printers when they've been tapped out, Samsung...
- Tags: Laser Printer, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Laser, Printers, Hardware, Peripherals, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-03-13
- Lexmark RFID Encoder and Laser Printer Combination Goes the Distance
- Based in Southfield, Michigan, SAI Timing & Tracking is a world leader in the specialized industry of clocking athletes in marathons, triathlons and other events. It was difficult for them to keep track of each runner, including registration, distribution of numbered bibs and recording actual realtime race progress to the...
- Tags: Printer, Laser Printer, Laser, Lexmark International Inc., RFID, Wireless, Security, Biometrics
- Case studies 2008-03-01
- Brother's HL-2170W laser printer gives you Wi-Fi for $149
- Hate the cables but want to avoid the headache of setting up a print server to wirelessly connect your printer? Here’s an easy way out: Brother has just announced a monochrome laser printer with built-in Wi-Fi at a breakthrough price of $149. The Brother HL-2170W’s specs...
- Tags: Printer, Laser Printer, Brother, Laser, Brother HL-2170W, Printers, Wireless LANs, Wi-Fi, Hardware, Peripherals, Wireless, Rik Fairlie
- Blog posts 2007-12-20
- Besieged by HP's derogations, laser printer emissions whistleblower fights back
- Meet Queensland University of Technology's Professor Lidia Morawski. She's the researcher that, by sheer chance, discovered that certain laser printers including a bunch from HP were emitting an unusually high volume of ultrafine particles -- so many that she deemed them to be a potential source of respiratory irritation,...
- Tags: Printer, Hewlett-Packard Co., Laser Printer, Particle, Health Care, Laser, David Berlind
- Blog posts 2007-08-10
- ZDNet reader: If Carbon Black were really that carcinogenic, we'd all be dead
- At least one ZDNet reader thinks that the laser printer emissions issue that I've been covering is much ado about nothing.On the heels of the publication of an Australian study that found certain laser printers to emit unhealthy concentrations of particles, one of the big questions is whether those particle...
- Tags: Laser Printer, Particle, Laser, Carbon, David Berlind
- Blog posts 2007-08-09
- HP to safety official's e-mail regarding potentially dangerous laser printer emissions: 'Delete'
- HP to safety official's e-mail regarding potentially dangerous laser printer emissions: 'Delete'Shouldn't Tran, Tuan A's employment be deleted?n/tRe deletion without readingI am a webmaster of about 22 different websites. I get loads of spam with "generic" subject lines like "Thank you", etc. I don't normally read every email, I look...
- Tags: Spam, laser, laser printer, e-mail, Mr Tran, Hewlett-Packard Co.
- Discussion threads 2007-08-09
- HP to safety official's e-mail regarding potentially dangerous laser printer emissions: 'Delete'
- Apparently, my recent coverage of the potentially harmful emissions coming from laser printers including those from HP have raised some important questions in certain government circles. After reading the two blogs I wrote on the issue (first the news of the Australian study, and second, HP's response), San Francisco...
- Tags: Printer, Hewlett-Packard Co., Laser Printer, E-mail, Laser, David Berlind
- Blog posts 2007-08-09
- Don't trash your laser printers just yet!
- Don't trash your laser printers just yet!At home, switch it off when not printing.......that's what I do with my laser printer (HP 1018)! :-)Don't panicFor corn sake, don't panic.Where's the evidence?Anecdotal evidenceWell, I'll provide a bit of anecdotal evidence, although nothing as serious as lung cancer. I have asthma,...
- Tags: Printers, laser, printer, laser printer
- Discussion threads 2007-08-08
- Don't trash your laser printers just yet!
- If I have learned nothing else in all my years of experience, I have learned not to believe everything I read -- or at least to take what I read with a healthy grain of salt. Just yesterday, eSchool News reported School printers may pose health risk. This report is based upon a research...
- Tags: Printer, Laser Printer, Health Care, Laser, Marc Wagner
- Blog posts 2007-08-07
- So how 'bout them laser printers?
- So how 'bout them laser printers?Best article yet this issueChristopher....This post actually talks about how to deal with the issue; not the scare tactics that I've been reading here on ZDNet and other media outlets. These studies on laser printers have been around for years and this particular study has...
- Tags: Printers, Copiers, printer, laser printer, laser, job, photocopier
- Discussion threads 2007-08-05
- So how 'bout them laser printers?
- Laser printers, especially those from HP, have received some fairly alarming press lately. It seems that emissions from these printers can potentially have negative health effects, according to an article published in Environmental Science and Technology. While a small body of literature has accumulated over the years suggesting...
- Tags: Printer, Laser Printer, Laser, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2007-08-05
- HP on potentially dangerous laser printer emissions: Our printers no riskier than toasters
- In yesterday's blog post about the potentially dangerous laser printer emissions that were uncovered by Queensland University of Technology in Australia, I noted that HP's LaserJets bore the brunt of the study's findings and that I'd follow up when HP delivered the response it promised. That response showed up in...
- Tags: Printer, Hewlett-Packard Co., Laser Printer, Particle, Health Care, Laser, David Berlind
- Blog posts 2007-08-03
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