Canon Pixma Inside Out – the iP4200 Photo Printer by John Sollars
So you might have already heard about the new Canon Pixma iP4200 that’s doing the rounds in the computer hardware industry nowadays. Everybody is reviewing it, including us. Canon has been keeping mum over the longest-lasting-photo-prints debate for sometime now. ... The numbers of the Pixma iP4200 cartridges are: PGI-5BK - Black pigment ink CLI-8BK - Black dye based ink CLI-8C - Cyan dye based ink CLI-8M - Magenta dye based ink CLI-8Y - Yellow dye based ink These cartridges are also suitable for Pixma iP5200, iP5200r printers, MP500, MP800 and MP950 MFPs.

Inside Your Inkjet Printer: How Does it Work? by Bob Stephens
Have you ever wondered how your inkjet printer works? How does the ink get from the inkjet cartridge to the paper? Why is the print quality is so clear? Why the printing is so quiet? Generally, all that most people know is that there's some movement and a faint high pitched sound when it's... This also kept the cost of ink cartridges low since they were little more than reservoirs of ink. ... In the 1990's, Canon, Epson and HP engineered printheads that applied even smaller droplets of ink, drastically improving dpi and resolution.

Review of the Epson Stylus Pro 9800: Its First Year in Retrospect by Kirk Economos
It has been year since the first announcement of the Epson Stylus Pro 9800 printer, the new generation of 44 inch width, inkjet printer from Epson. Like many of the new releases from Epson, the printer was highly anticipated; offered breakthrough new features; and was impossible to get for about... Dark ink density not improved when using matte black ink on matte papers. ... The K3 matte black ink on matte papers seems not to have improved black density, and some users report that matte black is less dense on matte papers than the previous UCM matte black ink.

Printer Buying Guide by Jeffrey Lawrence
Printers are essential peripherals, performing a critical role as they render electronic information into tangible records or material output. You’re simply not using your computer to its fullest potential if you are unable to print reports, presentations, letters, photos, or whatever it is you... Inkjets with a single cartridge for the colored inks will incur higher replacement costs because the cartridge must be replaced as soon as one color runs out — even if the cartridge still contains plenty of ink for the other colors.

How Do InkJet Printers Work by Simon Rogers
The printers utilizing inkjet technology were first introduced in the late 1980s and since then have gained much popularity while growing in performance and dropping in price. They are the most common type of computer printers for the general consumer due to their low cost, high quality of... Depending on the manufacturer and model of the printer, ink cartridges come in various combinations, such as separate black and color cartridges, color and black in a single cartridge or even a cartridge for each ink color.

Printers - A Practical Buyers Guide by Iggy Quazi
Buying a printer can be a complicated business, there are more shapes, sizes and types of printers available to the home and small business user than ever before. Printers have also become specialised for their intended purpose. It is no longer a case of "a printer is a printer". ... Solid Ink Printers Solid ink printers use solid wax ink sticks in a "phase-change" process, they work by liquefying wax ink sticks into reservoirs and then squirting the ink onto a transfer drum from where it is cold-fused onto the paper in a single pass.

Your Ink Glossary Terms Have Just Been Compiled In Order To Define The Content Of Your Cartridges by Joseph Mercado
If you need some help with ink and printing terms, this section will help you. The following glossary should help you grasp the important concepts that control the art and science of ink usage. Absorption: •The dispersal and decreased transmission of visible light in its interaction with... Hi-Fi Color: •Printing process that extends the tonal capabilities of most printing presses by employing stochastic screening, six-color printing and other techniques to expand the possible color gamut beyond the traditional abilities of four-color processes.

Xerox - Its Journey with Ink by John Sollars
Chester Carlson inventor of xerography founded the Haloid Company on April 18, 1935. The company manufactured and sold photographic paper! It was based in Rochester New York. In the year 1942 Carlson received U.S. patent No. 2,297,691 on Oct. 6 for electrophotography, later called xerography,... A solid ink printer consists of only three major components- the print head that applies ink to print drum, the print drum that transfers image to paper and the controller, which is the brain of the printer that converts data from the computer to information required to print the image on paper.

The History of Canon - From an Optical Lab to a Multimedia Giant! by John Sollars
Canon, according to the dictionary means is a general law, rule, principle or criterion; church decree or law; member of cathedral chapter; body of writings accepted as genuine. Now what I am talking about is a company that manufactures user-friendly products! ... One important feature Canon uses to achieve real true to life image quality on paper is: Color reproduction: The color range of digital cameras (YCC) is much wider, making it possible to capture a vast amount of color information when shooting.