When I go to Starbucks, I don’t order anything I can’t pronounce. So instead of uttering some long Italian phrase to the cashier, I typically get a medium black coffee, which works just fine for me. And if you feel the same [...]

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A typical businessman might say that you need ESP to figure out what today’s consumers really want in a printer. But while others talk about ESP, Kodak actually has it in the form of the ESP 3, a photo inkjet MFP that enables [...]

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When I hear the name ‘magicolor,’ I visualize a miniature wizard living in the toner compartment and waving his magic wand when you press ‘print.’ But despite the evocative name, the magicolor 4650 from Konica Minolta uses traditional laser technology to roll out [...]

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Whether it’s Michael Jordan sporting #45 or Elvis Presley sporting tassels and rhinestones, America has always loved a good comeback. And the same should apply to the printer industry, where our sources tell us that rumors of the personal monochrome laser printer’s demise [...]

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In a modern world fixated on the external appearances of actors and athletes, it’s in to be slim. The same goes for the printing industry, where portability has taken on even more importance as consumers demand products that can print anytime, anywhere. [...]

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In our first few Printer Previews, we’ve covered machines that generally weigh between 20-45 pounds. In this post, we cover our first true heavyweight: the 82.9 pound Brother DCP-9045CDN Laser MFP. This device prints at 21 ppm in color and monochrome, copies [...]

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At first glance, you wouldn’t think that Dr. Scholl’s and Ricoh have much in common. But at the end of the day, they’re both asking consumers the same question: Are you gellin’? In Ricoh’s case, they mean the GelSprinter GX7000, an inkjet [...]

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With pigment- and dry-based inks sometimes getting mixed reviews for smudging and blurring at inopportune times, Ricoh’s GelSprinter inkjet printers have turned to high viscosity inks for higher-quality prints. The GelSprinter GX2500 gives consumers a new entry-level option that aims to minimize bleeding [...]

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As a sports fan, I’ve always wondered why writers pick pre-season college All-America teams. Shouldn’t athletes have to play the games before anyone decides whether they deserve any accolades? The same question could apply to a couple of the honorees in the [...]

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Back in the ’80s, Pepsi called its soft drink the “choice of a new generation,” and young people like me lapped it up like water. But even though the slogan may have faded out like stonewashed jeans, the message lives on at events [...]

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