Posted by ZeeMart | Making your life cheaper
in Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Product Features
World's First Patented Digital Photo Frame-Printer Combo Unit Blends Stunning Display with High Resolution Printing - All in a Sleek, Portable Housing
The leading online retailer of the Mimo family of USB-based 7" monitors, has added the iMo Foto Frame Printer to its product line. The world's first patented device to combine display and printing capabilities, the iMo Foto Frame Printer boasts a crystal clear 8", 800x600 pixel LCD display that prints stunning 4"x6" 300x300 dpi glossies from the top of the unit. As a standalone device, the frame-printer combo requires no computer connectivity, supports jpegs up to 16 mega pixels, and features three-button navigation control with an intuitive onscreen manual. The iMo Foto Frame Printer is designed with ease-of-use in mind as users -- from grandma to toddler -- can create full color photographs in less than a minute with just the push of a button. The iMo Foto Frame Printer also includes video and MP3 play capabilities.
Weighing in at just 4.85 pounds, the iMo Foto Frame Printer features memory card insert slots for the following: USB, CF, SD/MS/MMC/xD. The device can also support Sony's Memory Stick and SDHC cards with an adapter. Additionally, the iMo Foto Frame Printer replacement cartridge contains all the consumables -- there are no separate ink and paper cartridges -- allowing for quick, one step replenishment.
The iMo Foto Frame Printer is an ideal printing and display option for a variety of environments including the home office, den/living room, dorm room and more. The device is also the perfect holiday gift for photo lovers of all types - from the technology buff to parents and grandparents of gadgeteers to tech-savvy teens, the iMo Foto Frame Printer will make anyone's holiday.
Posted by ZeeMart | Making your life cheaper
in Wednesday, November 4, 2009
Product Description
Medium format colour inkjet printers, which sit between standard A4 and wide format production machines, fill a fairly specialised niche. Capable of printing full-bleed A3+ pages, Canon’s Pixma Pro9000 Mark II is aimed at photo enthusiasts or semi-professional photographers. Semi-pros might prefer to use it for proofing than end product, but it would also be suitable for print-on-demand applications, like sending wedding guests away with photos on the day of the big event.
Canon Pixma Pro9000 Mark II
Besides the price, the key difference between a workhorse A4 inkjet – such as the Pixma MX330 (http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2009/05/27/review_printer_canon_pixma_mx330/) we reviewed recently – and this machine, is the width of the carriage. Handling paper up to 13-inches wide, the Pixma Pro9000 MkII measures 660mm across. See how it dwarfs the adjacent DSLR in the picture. Indeed, this printer will need its own desk.
To use all its features, it’s not just the width you need to worry about. In normal running, paper feeds from a near-vertical tray at the rear to a telescopic output tray at the front, but it can also be configured to take thick or other special media from the front and print it out the back. To accommodate this, a flap at the rear is folded down and two spring-loaded butterfly supports are extended. Printing this way needs space of at least the length of the paper it’s printing at both front and rear.
The printer has borrowed a feature from several of Canon’s A4 machines, in providing direct CD print, via a separate carrier, which slides in at the front of the machine. The machine can print standard CDs and the smaller, credit card-sized ones too. CD print is useful for full-colour, on-disc printing, but also for labelling the hundreds of discs of large, high-res images photographers tend to stockpile.
It’s a peculiar truth that, as inkjet printers go upmarket, they’re provided with fewer bells and whistles. There’s no LCD panel on this machine; no colour screen to preview images and not even a mono screen to set options with. There are a couple of buttons for power and paper feed, but that’s all the manual control you get.
Only basic controls are accessible from the unit
Perhaps more surprisingly, there are no memory card slots, either. Presumably Canon’s argument is that a professional photographer won’t want to print straight from a memory card, without viewing and adjusting the image first on a PC or Mac screen. If that’s the case, why is there a PictBridge socket, so you can download from a camera? Most cameras have very limited PictBridge printing control and their LCD screens are inconveniently small for image proofing. Unless, of course, you’ve an LCD the size of Canon’s EOS 5D MkII (http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2009/06/08/review_camera_dslr_canon_eos_5d_markii/) that appears in publicity shots alongside this Pixma.
The only data connection is USB, but this is probably all most customers will need. Indeed, the Pixma Pro9000 Mk II isn’t an ideal machine to network, because of the many different configurations and paper setups it’ll need to work with. To set the printer up, eight separate ink cartridges are plugged into the head carrier. On top of the CMYK set, the Pixma Pro9000 Mk II uses photo cyan and photo magenta, and adds in red for improved flesh tones and green for more vivid landscapes.
The Japanese version has ten colours – extra black and grey
As well as drivers for Windows from 2000 up and OS X from 10.3.9 – no mention is made of Linux or Unix support – the Canon applications Easy-PhotoPrint EX and CD-LabelPrint are included. These are fairly useful variants of the file housekeeping and basic photo-editing applications provided with most printers, but there’s also a full copy of Adobe Photoshop Elements.
Although this is version 6, which doesn’t include things like the image element removal of the latest version 7, it’s still a very capable application for a bundle. For the lower end of the market this printer is aimed at, Photoshop Elements is handy, but for the semi-pro and pro customers, there’s a Photoshop plug-in called Easy-PhotoPrint Pro, which is possibly more useful.
Easy-PhotoPrint Pro enables you to print a variety of different, template arrangements of images and to handle RAW data directly. It works much like a print driver control panel, but supports Linear Tone, ICC and Photo Colour tone modes.
As this machine is designed primarily as a photo printer, it won't come as much of a surprise that its plain paper print speed is rubbish. In fact, our five-page text print took just under three and a half minutes and a five-page text and colour graphics print took nearer to four. If you want to print invoices, it’s best to have a mono laser as well as the Pixma Pro9000 Mk II.
CD printing comes in handy for cataloguing too
Switch to photo paper, print images and it seems like a different machine. A 15 x 10cm print took 51 seconds via a PictBridge connection and just 42s from a PC. These are both very good times and are for standard print mode, not some optimum-speed draft, where the print quality suffers. Even when we fed a full-bleed A3 image to the Pixma Pro9000 Mk II, it completed in 1m 53s – very quick for the size.
The print-quality design aims for this machine have been well realised. By adding in the red and green inks, Canon has produced a machine that gives very natural colouring for both landscapes and portraits. There is little noticeable hue shift in any of the prints we produced, compared with the original colours.
Big and square and bordering on ugly
Detail levels are very good and the machine succeeds in reproducing detail from shadows well. In some printers these dark shades veer to black, giving muddy detail and reducing the overall fidelity. The one problem we did notice was on one of our A3 prints, where there was a hint of banding in a particularly blue area of the sky.
With eight inks to keep topped up, you’d perhaps expect this to be an expensive printer to run. However the photo colours and red and green are used primarily to tweak the main tints and should yield thousands of pages each. Even so, using Canon's yield figures for 15 x 10cm photos, produced a cost of 20p per print, which is on the high side, even when compared with other Canon printers.
“Canon is known within the professional photographer community for providing the right output tools to manage their photographic creations and the PIXMA Pro9500 Mark II Photo Printer continues to deliver on that tradition with its superior quality and archiveability,” stated Ian Macfarlane, Vice President and General Manager of the Consumer Imaging Group at Canon Canada Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Canon U.S.A., Inc.” Additionally, with the growing number of enthusiasts capturing professional-quality photographs with digital SLR cameras, it is only natural to want to maintain creative control over their photos by printing the images themselves on products like the new Canon PIXMA Pro9000 Mark II Photo Printer. These professional and emerging photographers understand and appreciate the creative control that Canon provides over image quality from capture to output.”
Software
A new Easy-PhotoPrint Pro feature incorporated into the PIXMA Pro models is Canon’s Ambient Light Correction technology which helps reduce the perceived colour difference caused by different light conditions between printing and viewing or display environments. Compatible with Windows Vista OS, Ambient Light Correction allows users to optimize print colour for the lighting conditions where the final print will be shown. Through the software, users can adjust colour to various levels of lighting conditions from daylight at 6500K to a warm white fluorescent lamp at 3000K for optimal viewing.
Both the PIXMA Pro9500 Mark II and the PIXMA Pro9000 Mark II Photo Printers come bundled with Canon’s proprietary Easy-PhotoPrint Pro software and now with Adobe PhotoShop Elements, a user-friendly photo-editing software tool. Easy-PhotoPrint Pro, which is a software plug-in designed for Adobe applications such as PhotoShop CS, CS2, CS3, or PhotoShop Elements 6 along with Canon Digital Photo Pro (DPP) software, permits one-click image transfer, simple setting controls for colour management and allows users to configure printer settings once for images on multiple sheets. A helpful feature, Easy-PhotoPrint Pro facilitates the printing of RAW image files (as a high quality TIFF or JPEG) without having to save directly from applications, like DPP.
Canon LiDE700F Color Image Scanner
The new Canon LiDE700F Colour Image Scanner provides consumers with a high-speed scanning solution capable of capturing a letter-sized image – roughly the size of a large wedding photo or school portrait – at 300 dots-per-inch (dpi) in approximately 12 seconds. The scanner can capture one frame of a 35mm filmstrip at a maximum optical resolution of 9600dpi to help digitally archive customer’s older photographic film. Powered and connected via a single USB cord, the LiDE700F, includes a LED light source for low power consumption. Canon helps make scanning easier with Auto-Scan Mode, a one-touch solution where the scanner will automatically detect the type of document or image being scanned and adjust the setting accordingly. The scanner’s four easy buttons offer simple, single-touch operation for copying, scanning, and creating e-mail attachment/multi-page PDF files. The LiDE700F scanner is expected to ship to retailers in April at an estimated retail price of CAD $149.993.
About Canon Canada Inc.
Headquartered in Mississauga, Ontario, the company employs 1,400 people at its offices nation-wide, servicing the Canadian market from coast to coast. Innovation and cutting-edge technology have been essential ingredients in Canon’s success. Canon’s leadership in imaging, optical and document management technology and solutions is based in large part on the thousands of patents the company has secured throughout its history. For the 16th consecutive year, Canon Inc. is among the top three US patent recipients.
The company’s comprehensive product line includes networked multifunction devices; digital copiers (colour and black and white); printers, scanners, image filing systems and facsimile machines; calculators, digital camcorders, digital and analogue cameras and lenses; semiconductor, broadcast and other specialized industrial products.
Canon supports programs that help preserve and protect the environment. The company instituted the Clean Earth Campaign in 1990, which assists various environmental and recycling initiatives. The Campaign has also supported leading environmental organizations, such as World Wildlife Fund – Canada and the Canon Envirothon.
Posted by ZeeMart | Making your life cheaper
in Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Product Description
If its power and functionality you want, then this HP MFP is the device for you. Fast speeds, consistently great print quality, value-featured networking, a new fax solution, and a host of additional features mean serious improvements in user productivity.
Product Features
Printing Speed
Normal Mode Black, Letter Up to 27 ppm
Best Mode Black, Letter Up to 8 ppm
First Page Out Black (letter, ready) Less than 10.0 sec
Resolution
Print Resolution Best Mode, Black Up to 1200 x 1200 dpi
Scan Resolution Hardware Up to 1200 x 1200 dpi
Scan Resolution Optical Up to 1200 dpi
Bit Depth 24-bit
Technology
Print Resolution Technology REt, HP FastRes, HP ProRes 1200, HP TrueRes
Paper Handling
Input Capacity Standard Up to 300 sheets (Tray 1: up to 50 sheets; Tray 2: up to 250 sheets)
Input Capacity Maximum Up to 300 sheets
Input Capacity Maximum (tray1) Sheets: 50, transparencies: 10, envelopes: 10
Input Capacity Maximum (tray2) Sheets: 250
Output Capacity Standard Up to 125 sheets
Total Output Capacity Up to 125 sheets
Duty Cycle Printer: up to 15,000 pages; copier: up to 15,000 pages; ADF: up to 2250 pages
Recommended Monthly Page Volume 750 to 3000
Media Types Paper (bond, color, heavy, letterhead, light, plain, preprinted, prepunched, recycled, rough), envelopes, transparencies, labels, cardstock
Paper Tray Capacity, Maximum 2
Duplex Print Automatic (standard)
Custom Media Sizes Automatic document feeder: 127 x 127 to 216 x 381 mm; Tray 1: 76 x 127 to 216 x 356 mm; Tray 2: 148 x 210 to 216 x 356 mm
Cartridges
Print Cartridges Number 1 (black)
Print Cartridge Colors Black
Fax
Fax Speed, Letter 3 sec per page
Maximum Speed Dialing Numbers Up to 120 numbers (119 group dials)
Fax Memory, Letter Up to 600 pages
Fax and Modem Description Version 34, Super G3 fax modem (up to 33 kbps) and 2 RJ-11 ports
Modem speed 33.6 kbps
Scanning
Scan Resolution Enhanced Up to 19,200 dpi
Scan Size Maximum 216 x 297 mm
Scan Type Flatbed, ADF
Grayscale Levels 256
Color Scanning Yes
Scan speed black (normal) Up to 3 ppm
Scan speed color (normal) Up to 3 ppm
Connectivity
Standard Connectivity 10/100Base-T Ethernet network port, Hi-Speed USB 2.0 compatible port
Power Supply Input voltage 110 to 127 VAC (+/- 10%), 50/60 Hz (+/- 2 Hz), 4.5 220 to 240 VAC (+/- 10%), 50/60 Hz (+/- 2 Hz), 2.6 amp
Temperature Maximum Operating 15 to 32.5 C
Physical Description
Product Dimensions Standard 500 x 406 x 457 mm
Product Weight 17.2 kg
System Requirements
Operating Systems Windows 2000; Windows Server 2003; Certified for Windows Vista(TM); Windows XP Home; Windows XP Media Center; Windows XP Professional; Windows XP Professional x64; Windows XP Tablet PC; Mac OS X v 10.3 or higher; Novell NetWare 3.2, 4.2, 5.x, 6; HP-UX 10.20, 11.x; Red Hat Linux 6.x or higher; SuSE Linux 6.x or higher; Solaris 2.5x, 2.6, 7, 8, 9, 10 (SPARC); AIX 3.2.5 or higher; MPE-iX; Citrix MetaFrame; Terminal Services
Macintosh Requirements, Minimum Mac OS X v 10.3 or higher; G3 (500 MHz), G4, G5, or Intel processors; 512 MB RAM; 100 MB disk space; USB or network port; CD-ROM drive
PC Requirements, Minimum Windows 2000, Windows Server 2003: any Pentium II processor or higher, 64 MB RAM, 250 MB hard disk space, SVGA 800 x 600 with 16-bit color display, Internet Explorer 5.5 or higher (full install), CD-ROM drive, USB port (print driver, scan driver only); Windows XP-32 Home, Windows XP-32 Professional: any Pentium II processor (Pentium III or higher recommended), 128 MB RAM, 250 MB hard disk space, SVGA 800 x 600 with 16-bit color display, Internet Explorer 5.5 or higher (full install), CD-ROM drive, USB port; Windows XP-x64: any Pentium II processor (Pentium III or higher recommended), 128 MB RAM, 250 MB hard disk space, SVGA 800 x 600 with 16-bit color display, Internet Explorer 5.5 or higher (full install), CD-ROM drive, USB port; Windows Vista-32 Home, Windows Vista-32 Professional: 1 GHz processor, 512 MB RAM, check user guide for minimum hard drive space, SVGA 800 x 600 with 16-bit color display, Internet Explorer 5.5 or higher (full install), CD-ROM drive, USB port; Windows Vista-
64: 1 GHz processor, 512 MB RAM, check user guide for minimum hard drive space, SVGA 800 x 600 with 16-bit color display, Internet Explorer 5.5 or higher (full install), CD-ROM drive, USB port
