...the humble inkjet printer. The Inkjet Business Model The reason that many inkjet printers are so cheap to buy is that a common business model involves selling the actual printer at or even below the production cost and then marking up the cost of the replacement inkjet cartridges. This is why replacement cartridges are often so expensive whereas compatible manufacturers (who don’t have the same original investment to recover) can offer their prod...
Should you choose a fixed or replaceable inkjet printhead?
...posable head philosophy uses a print head which is part of the replaceable ink cartridge which means that every time the printer runs out of ink, the entire cartridge is replaced with a new one. Of course this does add to the cost of the replacement cartridges and also has the added disadvantage that the manufacture would find it difficult to produce a high-precision head within reasonable a cost limit. The advantage is that a damaged print head m...
What is a Laser Printer?
...aper. When compared with inkjet printing laser printers offer no smearing, lower cost per page and faster print speed. There is an inherent disadvantage that laser printers produce raster images, and except in the highest-quality versions they are less able to reproduce continuous tone images such as photographs. The cost of using a laser printer can be weighed up in looking at the cost of replacement toner, drum units and if necessary the replace...
CD/DVD Firmware
...LG branded drive and ‘GSA-H10N’ was the model number. Once armed with this information you should head to the manufacturers website which again can be found relatively easy with a Google search. Once there head to the support section and whilst I can’t tell you exactly where to look you should simply look for a section dedicated to DVD drives and firmware updates. If you have problems locating firmware for your particular drive then a good place t...
BluRay and HD DVD
...al 4.7Gb. All HD DVD players are backwards compatible meaning that you can play standard DVD’s on your new player and there are already plenty of players out there as the technology has been established for a relatively long time. A potential downside to this technology is that no games consoles support this standard straight out the box although Xbox 360 owners do have the option to purchase a HD DVD upgrade for their machines separately from the...
DVD-R or DVD+R?
...drives will take either format it is worth bearing in mind that a few new drives and plenty of older drives will still only take the one format it was designed to use. Historically DVD-R has always been the most widely accepted format although more recently some of the stand alone DVD recorders will only accept DVD+RW discs as there are a few technical advantages that lends this format more towards their specific task. Whilst the advantage of DVD...
All about DVD media
...r around £40 or so. DVD technology has been around in Europe now for around 4 years and although most people have used one in order to watch a movie, many may not yet be buying and using DVD data discs for their PCs. Back when the CD ROM was first pioneered it was heralded as a breakthrough as it was able to reliably store vast amounts of data in comparison to the current standards of the times. Over time however, it soon became evident that the l...
Remanufactured Toner Cartridges
...£75 every time I buy a new cartridge. I would also only now buy a printer that could accept compatible cartridges such as an Epson or a Canon printer and if you were to take a sample of the people in my family or friend group then you’d find very few of then that have been allowed to buy the more expensive machines. If you purchased a printer that seemed like a bargain at the time or even if it came free with your computer then bear in mind that a...
Recycling Cartridges for Charity
...ou can get the same quality for a lower cost, they also often contain more ink than their original counterparts and of course remanufacturing is good for the environment as 30 million ink cartridges are dumped in the UK alone every year. If we look at a worldwide statistic, a total of 375 million cartridges per year are dumped and it believed that the plastic that makes up these cartridges will take over 1000 years to decompose. When you consider...
Compatible and Remanufactured Cartridges
...hese types of cartridges can be primarily used in Epson, Canon and Brother machines as all three of these models of printer use simple ink tanks which are easy to create compatible versions of without infringing patents. Typically these cartridges start at just £1.49 each in store. Remanufactured Cartridges: These cartridges are typically created for printers such as HP, Lexmark, Samsung and Dell printers which cannot use compatible cartridges for...
