Nothing quite messes with the aesthetic of a carefully curated workspace like a big, bulky printer erupting with a mass of cable spaghetti. Many dwellers decide to hide them in spare closets, but what do you do when your office is a multi-purpose space, like a bedroom? Take a cue from Pamela and hide it inside an IKEA dresser drawer! More
Samsung Electronics ML-1865W Wireless Monochrome Printer
• $77.99
• Amazon
I don't know about you, but in this age of digital files, instant message and smartphones, I hardly print out anything these days except for mailing shipping labels and the occasional monochrome sheet or two. Our current inkjet photo printer is overkill and most of the color capabilities go unused, so I think I'll be trading it in for this compact wireless laser printer. Rated for 19ppm and up to 1200 x 1200 dpi effective output, it's good and plenty for home office use, and should be about a third smaller than the full size photo printer we're currently using. And best yet, I won't have to replace the toner for 1,500 pages instead of the seemingly "print 10 pages, then refill" cycle with an inkjet.
There seemed to be somewhat of a demand for more information on this 4 years old printer since my Tech Top 10 post this past weekend. The Polaroid PoGo printer has been around since 2008, and has dropped significantly from its original price of $180 to a much more reasonable $50. The printer itself uses Zink, on the proprietary film, to achieve a printing process that doesn't require ink. It's advertised as a "mobile" printer, since it has a fairly small size and receives its data via Bluetooth or USB. Read on to find out what our experience has been with the PoGo printer. More
Everyone is talking about the "cloud", but one company, Berg, is trying to put a happy face to the amorphous concept with the announcement of a technological throwback: a printer. The Little Printer is a wireless connected printing device designed to work less like a sheet-by-sheet household printer and more like a miniature printing press of Tweet-proportions, delivering bite-size daily subscriptions to content you want to receive from the cloud. News, puzzles, messages from friends, a word of the day, horoscopes, the weather report...all configured from your smartphone. More
Ah the paper-free home office. Such a charming idea, but one that we rarely ever see executed, because in 2011, paper is still useful. While many of our friends have gotten rid of their printers at home and chosen to print at work, when you work from home you don't really have that luxury. Here are 5 reasons why the printer still lives in our home office. More
Ah printers, while ideally we would never have the need to print anything, we don't yet live in a paper free world and therefore we, like many folks, own printers. Luckily our headaches with our printers are pretty few and far between. After troubleshooting an issue earlier today we realized that perhaps the tips we use could help others and so this post was born. More
Back in the days when 35mm film was the photo medium of choice, you had one and only one option for getting those birthday party pics into your hands: The local photo counter. But now that you're shooting digital photos, you have options. Do you print photos at home? At a store kiosk? Through an online photo print service? Here's our medium of choice, and how we came to the decision. More
Printer ink is expensive, y'all. More expensive per milliliter than champagne. The good champagne. And every time you have to run one of those head cleaning routines, you're wasting a ton of it. However, like in most things in life, an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. Here's some easy ink nozzle maintenance for your inkjet printer. More
Combine an iPad with a printer and that's the basic premise behind this concept design from Artefact Group. Details and video of the concept in action below... More
While digital photo frames are becoming more and more convenient, printing out photos is still something that a lot of people will do (we've got large prints on our walls while our digital photo frame is mostly switched off). Most people will take snaps with their iPhones or smartphones, and having an easy way to print them out is handy. Some of these printers are full of features will others still require a cable to function. More











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