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Wifi – So What Is It?
Executive Summary  about Wifi – So What Is It? By Michael Russell

Wifi Printing

Wifi is short for wireless fidelity as applied to connecting multiple computers. Or in other words, wireless networking.

The 802.11 standard, on which networks are based, defines two modes which are infrastructure mode and ad hoc mode. With infrastructure mode, the wireless network is composed of at least one access point which is connected to the wired network infrastructure which includes a set of wireless end stations. This mode is great for quickly and easily setting up a wireless network where a wireless infrastructure doesn’t exist or is simply not needed for services.

While connected to a wireless network, you can do most basic things that are not too intensive such as check email, browse the Internet, connect to conferences, access your home directory, use programs such a network word processor and use printing services.

Even though wireless networks are nice to look at you will still get the best performance and highest speeds from wired networks. Generally speaking, a wireless connection works the same way as an Ethernet connection. The speed of a wireless network is about 11 megabits per second. The problem is that with a wireless network you have to share the bandwidth with all the users connected to the wireless network in a given network. It is because of this that wireless networks will never be as fast as a wired Ethernet network.

Top 3 Wireless Printers
Executive Summary  about Top 3 Wireless Printers By Dave Gram

Top Wireless Printer

The advantages of a wireless printer are fairly obvious: the printer can be placed anywhere in range of the wireless signal and a power outlet, anyone on your wireless network can print to it and multiple computers can share the same printer.

Here are my personal top 3 Wireless Printers I recommend you check out:

1) Epson WorkForce 600 Wireless All-in-One Printer. As well as being able to print documents this device can also copy, scan and fax documents and print photos. It can print up to 27 pages per minute (black). This is comparatively fast for a wireless printer.

2) Brother HL-2170W Laser Printer. It also has an Ethernet port as well as wireless capability.

3) Lexmark X4650 Wireless All-In-One Printer. It is exclusively wireless though, with no Ethernet port for your network cable if you don’t have a wireless network.

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Re-manufactured Ink Cartridges: Use or Not to Use?

Executive Summary  about Re-manufactured Ink Cartridges: Use or Not to Use? By Vlad Z

HP Ink Cartriges

Good enough for many people to never buy a new ink cartridge again!

But what about printers warranty?

You may have heard that before that use of refurbished ink cartridges may endanger your printers warranty. Many consumers are worried if the use of compatible or after-market printing supplies will void their printer’s warranty. More simply put, this means that your printer warranty cannot be voided just because you choose to use compatible or re-manufactured products unless the manufacturer can prove that the compatible product caused direct damage to your printer.

You can find detailed description of this law that protects you as customer in the United States Code Annotated, Title 15 Commerce and Trade, Chapter 50 Consumer Product Warranties. The truth is though that unless you have brand new printer, you warranty terms have probably expired so using re-manufactured ink cartridges will not affect you anyway.

There are two reasons in favor for considering using re-manufactured ink cartridges:

Reason number two it helps to save our environment.

A User’s Guide to Laser Toner Cartidges for Printers

Executive Summary  about A User’s Guide to Laser Toner Cartidges for Printers By Ilse Hagen

Caring for your laser toner cartridge is important in keeping your printer functioning efficiently.

Anatomy of a cartridge

A typical laser toner cartridge contains the powder toner, which releases ink to create prints on your paper. These cartridges are usually made of hard plastic and installed in the cartridge rack found in laser printers.

OEM (original equipment manufacturer) laser toner cartridges are specifically designed by printer manufacturers and function only with specific printer models and branders. Like OEM cartridges, compatible laser toner cartridges are made for specific brands.

Finally, remanufactured laser toner cartridges are assembled from recycled cartridge parts, which have been cleaned. Before, only OEM laser toner cartridges were sold in the market. But with the availability of cheaper alternatives to expensive cartridges, people have resorted to buying only the compatible and remanufactured laser toner cartridges.

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Printers – A Practical Buyers Guide

Executive Summary  about Printers – A Practical Buyers Guide By Iggy Quazi

Magazines Printer

It is no longer a case of “a printer is a printer”.

Inkjet Technology

Inkjet printers form images by spraying tiny droplets of liquid ink onto paper. A quality inkjet printer can produce very near photo-quality images using specialist photo coated paper. Inkjet ink is specially formulated for specific printer models and their purpose, much technology is involved in the development of these inks to improve print quality, longevity, drying speeds and printing speeds etc. Inkjet printers use anything between two and eight ink cartridges to do their job.

Portable Inkjet Printers

These printers are small, lightweight and ideal for people on the move. Although the printing of high quality photographs is usually beyond this type of printer, basic colour printing is of good quality and the quality of text print is mostly outstanding considering the size of these tiny portable A4 printers. These printers are not suitable for high volume printing.

Inkjet Printers

The Inkjet Printer is the most commonly used type of printer among home and small business users. With excellent all round printing capabilities, from black & white text print and good colour prints through to very hi-resolution, high quality photographs using Inkjet Photo Printers.

Laser Printers

Toner is the material used to make the image (as ink is in an inkjet printer) and is a very fine powder, so laser printers use toner cartridges instead of ink cartridges.

Laser printers make sense if you need to do a lot of high quality black or colour prints, not photos. Do check the prices of the consumables before you buy the printer as these can be very expensive for colour laser printers.

Solid Ink Printers

Solid ink printers are marketed almost exclusively by Tektronix / Xerox and are aimed at larger businesses and high volume colour printing.

Solid ink printers used to be cheaper to purchase than similarly specified colour lasers and fairly economical to run owing to a low component usage, today it is not necessarily any cheaper than a colour laser printer. Print speeds are not as fast as most colour lasers.

Dye-Sublimation Printers

Dye-Sublimation printers use heat and solid colour dyes to produce lab-quality photographic images. Dot Matrix Printers

The cost of replacing the ink can sometimes cost more than the printer itself!

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