Hewlett-Packard gives photo hobbyists a great new toy
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HP's $500 PhotoSmart photo printer is an excellent addition for photo hobbyists as a second printer, while the $499 PhotoSmart scanner is not worth the trouble or expense. The PhotoSmart printer produces near photographic quality pictures. The photos are glossy, crisp and vibrant and printed on heavy photo stock in standard sizes. The printer is easy to install and is approximately 18 inches square, 6 inches high and about 28 inches from front to back when the output tray is extended. It only runs on Windows 95, and HP suggests the machine be a Pentium PC with at least 32 MB of memory. Installing the PhotoSmart Scanner, on the other hand, is a long and difficult process, requiring the user to add a card to their PC. Making the card work is very difficult and time consuming. The scanner does produces impressive digital images that can be enhanced, cropped and enlarged without creating jagged edges.
Publication Name: The Wall Street Journal Western Edition
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0193-2241
Year: 1997
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Two versatile choices in printers for those not yet paperless
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Inexpensive personal printers costing less than $500 are available from HP, Canon and other vendors and provide reliable, good quality printing services. HP's LaserJet 5P laser printer costs less than $900 and provides a useful wireless implementation for use with notebook PCs as well as the conventional printer cable interface. The 5MP Macintosh version costs about $200 more but is just as reliable and easy to use. Canon's amazing $375 BJC-70 is a compact inkjet printer capable of delivering 720-dpi color printouts. The BJC-70 is lightweight and portable for mobile use, but still provides the same printing quality as full-size inkjet printers and is quite fast. The BJC-70 can print on different media as well, such as transparencies, cards and envelopes. One drawback to the BJC-70 is that it uses smaller ink cartridges that must be replaced more often.
Publication Name: The Wall Street Journal Western Edition
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0193-2241
Year: 1995
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'Document processor' combines functions to turn out forms
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Okidata is selling Doc-It, a well-designed piece of office equipment that does the job of four: scanner, fax machine, photocopier and laser printer. The 'desktop document processor,' as Okidata calls it, hooks up to an IBM PC compatible. A base model of the Doc-It 3000 sells for about $3,000 on the street. The Doc-It does as good a job as four different pieces of equipment selling for well more than $3,000 altogether. The Microsoft Windows-compatible Doc-It Manager software is particularly helpful. The Doc-It 4000, which sells for about $3,600, offers more printing options and higher resolution. Installation is somewhat problematic, as a board and cable must be added to the PC. Doc-It 3000 copies are somewhat inferior.
Publication Name: The Wall Street Journal Western Edition
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0193-2241
Year: 1993
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