The New Lexmark OfficeEdge Printer Series

Lexmark company is a printing supplies provider that assures you a great-quality color in your prints and a reliable printing machines that you can use for your home or business. Last day they released stunning lines of new printer models that will surely fit for the kind of business that you have. They introduced the OfficeEdge Series of Multifunction Printer (MFP) Products.

This new line of printers (Pro4000,Pro4000c,Pro5500, and Pro5500t) are built with Lexmark's new business inkjet cartridges and Lexmark toner cartridges platform that are highly engineered to give you satisfying, long-lasting and reliable output.

Jonathan Presnell, an Analyst from BERTL said: "Considering Lexmark OfficeEdge Pro5500's exceptional overall performance in testing, superb ease of use, outstanding innovative technology and exceptional office-color image quality, BERTL awards Lexmark OfficeEdge Pro5500 Color MFP its Five Star Exceptional rating and highly recommends the device for small businesses and enterprises that require a fully functional color inkjet MFP,".

The new OfficeEdge printers from Lexmark like Pro5500 (Laser Printer) and Pro4000 (Inkjet Printer) are specially built for faster, more professional, heavy workload printing and scanning. These MFPs can print for up to 21 pages per minute (ppm) in black color and 14 ppm in color. In addition, the Lexmark OfficeEdge Pro 5500 is a single pass, duplex, automatic document feeder with a paper tray capacity of 50 sheets.

It is also mobile connected, So, for those on the go, moving between different locations require a much better access and allow to produce documents anytime, anywhere easily. These printers are compatible with the new Lexmark Mobile Printing Application, that is designed for Apple iOS and Android tablets and smartphones, making their users print virtually anywhere.

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3D printing machine and printer inks are now used for entertainment

The power of 3D printing machine and quality of ink printer is not only for printing industry nowadays, because it is now part of entertainment industry. The upcoming film "The Pirates! Band of Misfits" is the newest movie that will going to release this coming April 27, 2012 by Aadman, Sony Pictures, and Columbia Pictures, believe it or not, it is the product of 3D printing machine and printer inks.

Sony Pictures unveils how they used the latest printer technology and printer inks to create the said movie.

The story is about a Pirate Captain who set out on a mission to defeat his rivals Cutlass Liz (Salma Hayek) and Black Bellamy (Jeremy Piven) to win for the Pirate of the year Award. The quest will take the Captain (Hugh Grant) and his crew from the shores of Blood Island to the foggy streets of Victorian in London.


Ian Whitlock, the company's key animator told Fox News on how animators at their company used 3D printers to generate different forms of mouths for a number of characters within the film.

"We built about 8,000 mouths. For the Pirate Captain model, we made 257 separate mouths. For someone like Charles Darwin, we probably had about 130 mouths." said by Whitlock.

According to Rich Brown, Senior Editor at CNET, told Fox News: "The layers build up in liquid form. The material solidifies as it prints out each layer, and the end result is a 3D object in real life".

In the end, the video looks great and very artistic let us wait for its release in April 2012. If you want to find good quality printers and affordable inks like remanufactured ink cartridges and OEM inkjet, you can visit ColorTonerExpert.com. You can also visit their remanufactured toner cartridges webpage for great laser printouts.

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Printing Technology Plus Organic Chemistry Equals Better and Faster Health Care in the Near Future?

Different hospitals world wide normally does treating wounds of their patients, curing diseases, perform surgeries such as organ replacement, and more, but what about printing different body parts? Sounds weird right? You can ask surgeon Anthony Atala, one of the people behind this great innovation in health care.

Back in March 2011 at Long Beach California, USA, Anthony Atala and other members on their group, introduce this new kind of technology that can be used for treating wounds and replacing different body parts using an inkjet printer. But instead of using OEM's like HP Q6470A toner or remanufactured inkjet cartridges, they use cells and other living organisms to treat patients.

This printer functions like a combination of 3D and inkjet printer that scans the patient before curing their wounds externally, but treating the internal part makes them use CT scan to create a 3D object that will enable them to print it out. Printing can take hours but it can help save many lives, such as printing kidney that could take 7 hours in printing but it can help people to survive (printed kidney structures are early prototypes that are being studied experimentally and are years away from functional and clinical use").

In testing this technology makes Luke M. a college student survive death. He suffers in kidney failure but luckily he is the one of ten people choosed to undergo a serious operation using this kind of technology from Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine. Now, his good health condition is back and do whatever he wants to do.

Here is the video from TED about the printer that can save more lives in the future.



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Hewlett-Packard Criticized by One of the Security Firms

Sophos, one of the biggest company that provides Internet and computer security, they power 30% of all security appliances in the market these days. This firm criticized Hewlett-Packard (HP) and suggested that they should make it easier for end-users to find the list of HP printer models that can possibly be affected in the future and those already infected by Malware.

HP one of the giant firms in printing industry released their update weeks ago on each printer models that can possibly affected to remove and avoid the attack, see "HP: Security Issue on Printer Malware is Over". The hackers/attackers can access private information of customers using the help of Malware, this kind of software is uploaded to your printer by hackers and it exposed your personal information to them via online.

One of the senior technology consultant at Sophos wrote that: "It would have been nice if it had been a little easier to find, or linked to from HP's press release (announcing the fix)."

CRN's reported and posted on their website that the list is already available for users and HP is not happy in the accusation made by Sophos.

HP is a supplier of great quality products in computer and printing industry, they sell products such as inkjet cartridges and laser toner cartridges like the HP 128A toner cartridge. These products, the HP inkjet cartridges and quality laser toner cartridges can make you satisfied on your printing job.

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Finance: Dell's Money Saving Product Range

According to the study from Hansa Research that Dell's line of products mostly printers, can help different companies from small to medium businesses to save money and at the same time give them the quality that they wanted.

It was reported recently from Money Life which highlighted the study from Dell. According to them, Dell printers boast a number of efficiencies which will help the firm to save both of their money and time, and enable them to optimize the cost of their operation.

Shishir Singh, Director of Product Marketing, Dell India said: "Our laser printers help SMB's maximize their investment and achieve exceptional long term value, with feature rich products at affordable purchase prices and low total cost of printing."

So, what is the best Dell printer in terms of what company line of products offer? The study measure the overall highest scorer in terms of maximum output capacity, maximum duty per cycle and speed, and it turned-out to be Dell's 1130N laser printer.

The laser printer that scored the most efficient was the Dell 1130N laser printer among competing models from different companies. They measure it in terms of paper maximum output capacity.

Dell also offer quality inkjet cartridges and laser toner cartridges like Dell 3110CN toner at affordable price. There are lots of reseller and merchants online where you can avail good OEM printing supplies such as HP toners, Cannon inkjet cartridges, Kodak printers and more.

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Printer Ink Cartridge Secret

Most printer users around the world knows that having a printing machine and replacing an ink cartridge requires a huge amount of money. But I recently found out that there is another way on how to cut your printing expense while keeping your home or business printer running.

Inkjet cartridges are too expensive most especially on branded inks, and it easily run out suspiciously. You can notice this by looking at your computers Systray (Taskbar) there is a warning symbol on your printers icon, it indicates that your printer cartridge is going to be empty soon, and it will halt your printing process instantly.

But are you going to buy a new cartridge without checking if it is really empty? Even though we cannot see the inside part of the cartridge or use a tool that can check if the cartridge does still have the ink, we should not trust the software installed in the computer or the cartridge memory chip because sometimes it shows wrong result.

If you want to know if it is really empty, press the reset button beside the memory chip and insert the cartridge again, then reboot your computer to update its software.

Here is the tutorial video on how to reset the inkjet cartridge memory, to know if it is already empty or still had an ink:



To be able to save more cash in my business, what I did is that I have both types of printer which is the laser printer from HP that uses HP CE260A black toner cartridge and inkjet printer that uses a remanufactured ink. How it help me financially? Laser printing is much cheaper than printing in color, I use this kind of printer when printing only in black and white colors most especially in printing documents, then I use inkjet printer when necessarily needed such as printing images.

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Hewlett-Packard Unveils New Set of HP LaserJet Pro Printers

Hewlett-Packard (HP), one of the biggest name in printing industry announced a new line of energy efficient LaserJet printers. These new range of products which aim at small offices and small to medium sized businesses.

The HP company released lots of useful printers with different specifications in Gujarat, one of those includes the HP LaserJet Pro P1108, they said that it is the new world's most energy-saving printer.

Mandeep Gupta, a country manager of LaserJet Enterprise Solutions HP India revealed that their company also plans to improve engagement with their partners in tier II and III across different cities in India.

According to Mr. Gupta: "Gujarat is an important market for us and we offer industry's largest portfolio of printing solutions with innovative products for the customers."

Stated by one of the newspaper in India, Hewlett-Packard provides training and incentive-led initiatives to empower its channel partners which are set to grow with its plan of expansion.

If you want to know more about HP you can visit their website at HP.com, you can also purchase their specific printing supply products online such as HP cb540a toner cartridge and more.

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Consumer Electronic Show: New Xerox Mobile Wi-Fi Scanner

There are tons of new different electronics ranging from gadgets to latest technologies presented at the recent Consumer Electronic Show (CES) at Las Vegas. One of the greatest technology that they featured is the Xerox Mobile Wi-Fi Scanner.

The Xerox latest Mobile Scanner is the first of its kind that was powered by battery and uses Wi-Fi technology to connect wirelessly. You can transmit different data such as images and PDF files from the scanner to your own mobile phone, touch pads, computers, or even to the Cloud.

By using a mobile app (free to download) it enables you to connect easily, the printer allows you to connect wirelessly to a personal computer, iPad, iPod touch, iPhone, Mac, or the Cloud

Xerox Mobile Scanner is a color scanner that has a size of 2"x2.75"x11.5" which includes a 4GB Eye-Fi SD memory card, rechargeable battery, case, and charger on its package. How to use it? It's very easy, Just turn it "On" by pressing the power button, select the file format and insert the document that you wanted to scan/copy. Scanning a full-page document takes only 10 seconds to scan and takes 300 pages of documents before going to recharge the battery.

"The Mobile Scanner provides a quick, convenient way to scan and share documents when you're on the go," said by John Capurso, Vice President of Marketing at Visioneer (Xerox licensing partner)

You can purchased this product for only 249.99 U.S. dollars. It is already available through retail, its agents, dealers, major resellers and online shops. To know more about Xerox you can visit their website at Xerox.com.

But if you want to purchase Xerox print cartridges online, you can visit different online merchants of branded cartridges.

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Best Labeling Printer: Brother QL-700

Brother Ltd. now aims on Small Office/Home Office (SOHO) market with their newly released product, the Brother QL-700. This small but very useful product is best suited for every business without the need of installation.

QL-700 label printer was created to capitalize on increasing  labeling sales market for this year 2012. The special features of this label printer model includes a high printing speed of 93  labels per minute and an automatic cutting.

Additionally it has a plug-and-play features that allow users to print directly from a personal computer without installing software or drivers. It also includes a software upgrade "P-touch Editor" that is very compatible with MS Office tools, like Word, Outlook and Excel.

You can watch the Brother QL-700 demo



"The QL700 is designed to meet the changing needs of SOHO's and can be used to produce ID cards and to put QR codes onto products, two specific areas for which there is growing demand," said by Phil Jones, Managing Director of Brother.

Brother has now a 36.1 volume share for the labeling market after the report seeing an uprise of over 70% in label sales in between 2009-2010 and on 2010-2011.

Aside from Brother Ltd. there are lots of great brands in the market all you need to do is to find them, such as Canon's Pixma printers and printing supplies like Canon 128 laser toner, HP's eAIO printers and more. Also, if you want to save some cash you can get/avail free coupons and free shipping of laser toner cartridges.

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Connecting Mac OS X to your Windows printers using LPD/LPR

There are many users of Mac PCs that are shared on the same network, and typically they share different resources like printers. But sometimes a computer run by  Mac OS X does not work and connect on Windows machine. Fixing this might be a little bit tricky but worth it.

Use Line Printer Daemon (LPD) protocol for printing to the computer run by Windows OS. But first let us take some reviews about the difference between LPR and LPD.

Difference between LPD and LPR

Line Printer Daemon (LPD)/Line Printer Remote (LPR) are printer protocols that use TCP/IP to be able to create connections between printing machines and workstations that uses different operating systems on a single network. LPD software is commonly stored in the operating system of the printer or server, while the LPR must be in the users device. LPR acts like a remote that sends the documents or other data that will be printed out to the IP address of the LPD server or printer.

In default, Windows (XP) does not have the support for sharing printers via LPD, we will need to install the software first.

• Go to Start > Control Panel > Add/Remove Programs
• Click Add/Remove Windows components section.
• Click Other Network File and Print Services > Details.
• Choose Print Services for Unix > OK.

By confirming that you want to install the software, you can now easily follow any onscreen instructions to finish the task. After setting it up, you are allowed to share using LPD in the Windows system. Now, we are going to configure your Mac PC to connect on the Windows machine:

• You need to open the Print & Scan system preferences, then add a new printer.
• Choose IP > Line Printer Daemon - LPD.
• Input the IP address of the windows computer on the Address box/section.
• For Queue name, make it the same as the Windows printer name.
• If it is detected, then click on "Select Printer Software" and find the driver that is right for your printer model.
• Select Add button to add and save the printer queue settings.

Now, your Mac PC can print to the Windows PC using the LPD protocol.

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About HP LaserJet Pro P1102w - the wireless laser printer

This printer model from Hewlett-Packard (HP) was a plug and print technology that enables every user to set it up easily and start their printing process at the same time. In the process you will just need an HP Smart Install for Windows and a USB cable.

You can also connect this printer to your wireless network. This will allow you to print having no wires attached using different electronic gadgets such as laptops, mobile devices and smartphones using HP ePrint Technology. But if you are going to print from your iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch you need to have an Apple Airtime application. By updating your printer firmware you will be able to use the Apple's and HP's wireless technology.

Hewlett-Packard also create and implement the energy saving technology, which is the Auto Off/On in the LaserJet Pro series printer. What it does? The printing machine will automatically turn on and print the data when you send a print job to it and shutdown automatically when it sense that there is no activity.

It can print with the speed for upto 19ppm on Letter sized format, while 18ppm for A4 size format. There are two trays that you can insert, the first one is for the 10-sheet priority input feeder and the other one is for 150-sheet paper tray. It can also perform a duplex printing to help you save more papers, this printer is good for small office with MSRP of only 150 U.S. Dollars.

HP is a huge company that offers different kinds of printing supplies like great quality HP toner cartridges and HP inkjet cartridges. They also provide a very innovative printing technologies, if you want to know more about them you can visit their website at HP.com.

Other Specifications

Operating System Compatibility: Microsoft® Windows® 7 (32/64 bit), Windows Vista® (32/64 bit), Windows XP (32/64 bit), Windows Server 2008 (32/64 bit), Windows Server 2003 (32/64 bit), Mac OS X v 10.4, v 10.5, v 10.6, Linux

Paper Sizes: Envelopes, Legal, Letter, Executive, and Postcards

Paper Compatibility: Envelopes, Cardstock, Postcards, Labels, and Papers (such as laser, plain, photo, rough, vellum)

Standard Interface: 1 Hi-Speed USB 2.0; 1 WiFi 802.11b/g

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HP: Security Issue on Printer Malware is Over

Announced publicly by the giant company Hewlett-Packard (HP) with regards to the issue of their printing machine safety, that they already created a firmware update that provides a tighter security on every printer models that is connected over the internet.

According to the researchers, hackers gain access on the printer by making their Malware downloaded by the printer user. Exposed printers can be controlled by the hackers and do some damage on the printing machine that could lead to printer fire. This issue has been dubbed as sensationalist by Hewlett-Packard, but now they started to adjust and tighten their security.

The firm said that they are doing their best and communicating with both of its partners and customers. But as of now, there was no reported incident of unauthorized access or starts a fire to any of HP's printer models.

HP also recommended to its users the best practices in securing the printing device such as activating firewall and deactivating remote firmware uploads on infected printing machines.

For anyone who is anxious about their security, you can visit HP's website at HP.com for more details about the latest available firmware update for your printer model. Hewlett-Packard is one of the huge printing supplies provider. They supply great quality printers, computers, HP laser toners, and HP inkjet cartridges.

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The Lexmark's X466dwe MFP - recommended for work-group

The X466dwe created by Lexmark Int'l, Inc. was a highly efficient and productive tool, which is good for small-to-medium-sized businesses. In enables you to print faster and more quality, also it provides more security features for your private data and network connection. So,  Are you ready to see it's special features? well here it is.

Great Features

Wireless and Easy to work with.

The Lexmark X466dw is a small-sized laser printing machine that have different functions. It is a perfect fit for working group, it provides a large color touch screen, allows duplex scanning and printing, built-in large memory capacity (hard-disk), and it has more innovative downloadable  applications to help you out.

Fast and more secured technology

Lexmark use an 802.11 wireless network for faster connection and secure printing anytime, and any place where as long as signal reaches the devices. With regards to setup it is very easy and quick.

This printing machine can help protect your private data and ensure that the network is safe to work with. Plus, data encryption, an alphanumeric pad for easy PIN authentication and disk wiping to help secure the hard disk.

Easy access on different applications + fast and quality printing

Your work-group or team will lead to higher productivity because of its ability to scan through multiple locations, such as e-mail, and it automatically prints in duplex format.

This incredible printer can print at the exceptional speed of 40 page per minute (ppm). You can easily access different apps or functions by creating a shortcut on the default menu and save the setting on your flash/hard drive.

Lexmark International Inc. also offers a wide variety of printing supplies like Lexmark Inkjet cartridges and Lexmark's high quality toner cartridges to make you more satisfied on your image and document printouts.

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Fast and Mobile Ready Printer Models

Quality printout, fast, mobile ready and easy to network printer model, these are the common features that most small businesses are aiming  to purchase. Because aside from improving their work, it can also provide a printout faster and wireless than old printer models.

If your printer model is printing slow and the output gives you dissatisfaction, It is the time to purchase a new printer model. If you want to have the qualities of the printing machine that you want Brother Ltd. released their four new printer models, two color printers; the HL-3075CW and the HL-3045CN, and two all-in-one printers; the MFC-9325CW and the MFC-9125CN, Brother International Corporation claims that these new models are faster competing printers.

There are three out of four printers that are compatible with Brother's free to download Print&Scan Application. Like their competitors this software works best on Android, Windows Phone 7 and Apple mobile devices having no wire. It is a nice tool that can be used by small to large business owners, because of its portability that can access normal office functions, like scanning and printing.

There are lots of great printer models out in the market that usually provided by huge companies like Dell, Hewlett-Packard (HP), Lexmark, Epson, Xerox, Cannon, Kodak and of course Brother Ltd., they also provide inkjet cartridges such as Brother LC61 inks and other good quality Brother laser toner cartridges.

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Mobile Technology will Assist the Printing Industry

Lots of experts in printing industry are keeping their eye in today's latest mobile technologies and innovations. With regards on the report of Computer Reseller News, there are lots of printing sector's predicting an increase in opportunities using mobile printing solutions that can aid or assist different users in printing industry.

According to Nitin Hiranandani, Director of Laser Enterprise Soluions, HP said: "With potential growth at a compound annual growth rate of 15%, we see a clear utility of mobile printers and scanners to capture customer information for processing applications and providing quotes or receipts to clients on the spot."

The state reported that mobile printing is enjoying its uptake in different businesses like marketing and advertising, telecommunications, events management, law and government firms,  travel, education and more.

With this kind of innovation, many of us will benefit because aside from using mobile phones for communication and networking, it can also be use for printing wireless anytime, anywhere.

HP and other brands already provided this kind of technology. They also sell quality inks and laser toner cartridges such as HP CE250A (Black Laser Toner Cartridge), that you can purchase in different stores online.


Congratulations Printing Industries of America (PIA)!

"Printing Industries of America, which formed in 1887, is pleased to announce that 2012 marks its 125th anniversary as an association. To help celebrate this milestone, a new logo and webpage have been created. The webpage will highlight not only the history of the organization but also the future of print and Printing Industries. Video and audio pieces featuring industry experts will be developed to capture their view of print’s past and its future. Celebrations will take place throughout the year, including one at Printing Industries of America’s booth at GRAPH EXPO 2012." - Packagingeurope.com

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The New Modern Concept of Printing

In this year, its going to be more exiting in printing industry. Why? because lots of firms introduce new sets of technologies that improves the way we print, like the new concept of printer created by the Artefact Group.

According to their website Artefact is a company that was independently owned international partnership that was dedicated in creating a preferable future for humanity. They are aiming to help forward-thinking businesses, groups and different organizations around the globe using their strategic practices in research, design and technology.

The idea of this company was good, to help you better imagine what it looks like and how it works you can watch this video:

On my point of view, I think it will be more expensive than ordinary printers on its first release. Having a new type of technology like this can help you print more easier and faster.

I can't wait to see this printer in the market and I hope that they should use good printing inks like brother lc61 inks from Brother Ltd.

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Speculations on the Future of Printing Industry

Different employees and businesspersons in printing industry have their own guess and proper data on what is going to be the future of the printing business. So, what is the future of the printing industry? Is it uprising or is it going down? Lets analyze it a little bit deep to have a better speculations on what it would be in the near future.

According to the report which is released by PC World, their predictions on what can we expect in the future of printers most specially this year (2012) are going to be more cloudy. Wait did you mean cloudy? Yes, Experts in printing industry expect that printing over the cloud technology and wireless using a mobile phone to a local device already have their growth this year and continuously counting.

Back in the year 2011, where mobile workforce increasing and lots of people with mobile technology gain access to a new kind of printing process called mobile printing technology guess that printing would not last. Why? because in the same year new technologies arise that enables you to read even without printing hard copies like the iPad and more that can help you save more money.

So it means to say that it is really the end of printing?

If you are going to ask me and some of the experts in printing industry, we are going to answer "No". Printing will stay with us, it is a part of our culture like reading books, printing receipts, printing documents, resumes and more. I think this year is going to be great for printing industry. Because these days a new kind of technology coming from huge companies like HP, Apple, Lexmark (seller of good quality Lexmark laser toner cartridges), Google and more, Cloud technology was inserted on the operating systems of printers such as Canon, Kodak and Epson, and call it Cloud Ready Printers. These technologies are still making some bug fix and updating its systems.

Also let us keep an eye on 3D printing technology, it getting more cheaper these days and soon small businesses can afford to buy and help sustain the printing industry.

If you want to save more money ordering ink or laser toner cartridges in bulk with free shipping will do.

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Beware: Printer Malware Might Expose Your Entire Network

According to the reports of GMA Network in the Philippines and Ang Cui's "Print Me If You Dare" one of the great presentations at the 2011 Chaos Communications Congress, employees or office workers from different companies might need to be more aware in storing or printing the information over the internet connected printer.

Why?

With regards to the finding of Ang Cui, an uncontrollable software can now be embedded in a malicious document to help expose the entire network that is connected on the infected printer.

BoingBoing.net, a group blog site said "Cui discovered that he could load arbitrary software into any printer by embedding it in a malicious document or by connecting to the printer online,"

What it does?

If your printer's operating system already contained the said malware and you send/store a document to a printer, it will copied by the machine and post them to an IP address over the internet.

Another thing is, when you use a computer connected printer that has the malicious software, it might cause the printer to scan the local area network (LAN) for vulnerable computers. When the malware finished the scan and detected some vulnerable PC's, it will turned into a proxy that grants hackers to get access to the computers.

What brands/types of printers that are possible to get infected?

The test or finding are found first when Cui reverse-engineered the process of updating the firmware on Hewlett-Packard printers. But he also believes that the issue of vulnerabilities to the attack might be present on other printer brands, models or products.

HP had already fixed the problem and the patch update is now available, Owners are now urged to apply the latest update because when the printers got the malicious software in the operating system it can handle or control the updates of the printer and can falsely report the new patch against it.

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How to Save Money on Ink Cartridges

After the holidays, lots of business are thinking of a great come back this year. Most of them wants to start a good and bountiful year, with of course a cost efficient strategy.

Since that this blog focus on printing technology and industry, I will provide some tips to help you cut the printing expenses and save more money. The best way to start is to look for your printing process and separate the "wants" versus your "business needs". For example if you are always printing multiple pages, try the double sided printing process or the duplex printing.

Second way on cutting down the cost on printing is to use cheaper recycled paper when you are about to print internal document or information that does not need a quality printing and presentation. It is the good way of lowering the expense without affecting the standards of your company.

Third, Talk to employees or encourage them to read online or through their computers if possible instead of printing it out.

Finally, Match your machine where it best works for. If you are using HP printing machines using HP cartridges where it best works with. It can help you save more money and electricity.

In the end, if you are running a printing business start to purchase different products in bulk, most specially when buying inkjet cartridge and laser toner cartridge like Hewlett-Packard (HP) toner cartridges in able to avail great deals. Find out more best deals over the internet check out my "Deals of the Month" page.

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Brother Ltd. Expand Its Printing Business Range

Good news for every Filipino people! A Nagoya, Japan based company will expand its business range in the Philippines. Brother Ltd. one of the biggest company in printing industry will build its printer parts plant in the First Philippine Industrial Park located at Barangay Ulango, Tanauan City, Batangas. According to them an approximate of 200 employees will be hired when the commercial operations begin in April 2013.

Brother Ltd. invested about $12 million to be able to put up this manufacturing facility, according to them it will be constructed in the first quarter of 2012 inside a 13.4 hectare area. The said facility will be responsible for generation and export of different parts for printers. Brother has four manufacturing facilities in Asia this includes the following; Vietnam, China, Malaysia and Japan.

According to them "abundant manpower and human resources with English language skills in the Philippines" make this country as one of the reasons why it topped on the list. After it established, the company was planning to invest an additional $42 million.

Masaki Kannabe, Chief of the Production Planning Department said, "Support us to complete our establishment at the earliest.", This company will surely provide additional jobs in the Philippines and help to sustain the printing industry in the country.

The Brother industry was aiming to improve its manufacturing facilities, operations and optimization of manufacturing structure globally. The firm also provides different kinds of printing equipment such as inkjet and toner cartridges like the Brother TN450 Compatible Toner. If you want to know more about them you can visit their website at brother.com.ph.

Denise Rasalan
Owner, Great Prints Solutions

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