All color printers, as well as some grayscale printers, utilize a combination of four basic colors to create graphics. As printing technology has evolved, companies have taken different approaches to ...

The EcoTank ET-3850 has great picture quality on glossy paper and does well on plain paper too. Photo by Tracey Truly / Digital Trends The hidden costs of ink and toner are important considerations ...

Printers are complicated machines, and far less important than they were even 10 years ago. And yet, there are still times ...

HP’s C5180 All-in-One ink jet printer uses individual cartridges for each ink color. Kodak’s 5300 bundles all colors into a single cartridge. So is the HP more efficient? Not necessarily, I discovered ...

Xerox recently announced two new printers that use a solid, wax-like ink, which Xerox claims has lowered the per-page cost of color ink to the same price of black and white. This is big news for large ...

The Konica Minolta magicolor 1650EN is an inexpensive color laser printer that produces beautiful black text and vibrant color images, and offers reasonably priced (albeit low-capacity) ink cartridge ...

When you refill HP color ink cartridges, you also need to reset the cartridge. Each HP color cartridge contains a chip that communicates with the printer. When the ink in the cartridge becomes low, ...

Editor’s note: The following corrections have been made to this article: We should have said that the HP OfficeJet Pro 8000 Wireless inkjet printer has just one standard input tray and that the cost ...

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