At the Consumer Electronics Show last week last week in Las Vegas, MakerBot Industries demonstrated one of the most affordable three-dimensional object printers on the market, the new MakerBot Thing-O-Matic 3D Printer which lists at $1,225.00 and can be purchased at http://store.makerbot.com/makerbot-thing-o-matic.html.  There’s one caveat:  you’ll have to assemble the Thing-O-Matic yourself.    The Thing-O-Matic […]

Market-research firm Gartner has reported that sales of printers, copiers and MFPs more than doubled in India in 2010’s third quarter.  According to Gartner, sales grew 57.3 per cent to nearly 0.8 million units in the third quarter, versus sales of 497,700 units in third-quarter 2009.  “Due to the festive season and some government purchases, […]

Equitrac is bringing its print-management solutions to small and mid-size businesses with its new Equitrac Office for Small and Medium Business (SMB). The new print-management solution is designed to help SMBs reduce print costs, improve document workflows, provide document security, and promote environmentally sustainable practices.  Equitrac says it’s designed the new solution for SMBs by […]

Hewlett-Packard’s Imaging and Printing Group announced its latest offering for managed print services, Smart Decision Suite, which includes printing from Blackberry smartphones using HP cloud-based printing services, and enhanced management of enterprise print fleets. The new printing solution for BlackBerrys, called ePrint, is the result of an HP partnership with Research in Motion (maker of […]

Xerox has updated its WorkCentre office-imaging family with new A3 workgroup color and monochrome systems for small and mid-size businesses.  The WorkCentre 7120 color MFP is rated at up 20 (B/W and color) ppm, and starts at $6,999, while the monochrome WorkCentre 5700 prints at up to 55 ppm and starts at $7,476.  All will […]

While traditionally a "big iron" show, this year’s Demand Conference & Exposition focused on workflow, with cut-sheet digital production systems dominating the floor (gone are the behemoth Heidelberg’s).  The show, which targets commercial printers and print-service providers, many of which have been hard-hit by the recession, was held again at the Philadelphia Convention Center, and […]

In an interesting blog post, Mike Jazayeri, group product manager at Google, previewed a new Google project, Google Cloud Print, that would enable users to print to devices without having to install print drivers.  Instead, Google Cloud Print would enable any application (Web, desktop, or mobile) on any device, including smartphones, tablets, and notebooks, to […]