Ik heb gedurende mijn computerleven al aardig wat printers versleten: ben je door je inkt heen, dan loont het haast de moeite om maar een geheel nieuw exemplaar te kopen want navullingen zijn verschrikkelijk duur, tenzij je zelf aan de slag gaat met injectienaalden en flesjes, met alle gevolgen va...

It seems that this is so. Who would think that your system could be compromised, from a distance, because of your printer? Over at PC Advisor, we are given the information that, along with the web based interface that is used, the firmware on certain Hewlett Packard printers can allow the retrieval ...

Former Valleywag consigliere Paul Boutin offers up a handful of great, low-tech fixes to your high-tech gadget issues. One of them involves getting your cellphone away from your warm pocket to boost its battery life. Photo by hsiqueira. If you're planning to be away from your charger for a stretch, ...

The world really works in strange ways in this modern day and age. For instance, some of the most important high-tech devices in the modern world like computers are cheap and easily replaced. In a few months, a thousand dollar computer today can go for 400 or 500 dollars. You probably know that used...

I have a nice HP D4160 printer that I use to print photos. I also use it for scrapbooking and just playing around. Over the last week I made a paper doll out of a photo I had taken of myself. The printer refuses to print it. It did an entire reprint of my friends short story for our writing group. Y...

The scientists and researchers are working hard to make this world a better place. Renewable energy, green consciousness, green gadgets - all of them are working towards one goal. How to get more energy from less and lesser. In this endeavor, papers are always given an important and close look. Even...

I need to print a document in black and white. I have a black ink cartridge. My Epson CX3900 refuses. Why? No ink in the magenta cartridge. What the hell does that have to do with printing black? Well, we've designed the printer to waste coloured ink even when you're printing black, so that you unne...

Chalk it up as another case of printing failure. Can you guess what happened? Apparently the printing process is mostly automatic and is printed directly from the website in edible ink. The designer didn't catch it and they tried to sell it to the purchaser. Ha, they still tried to sell it! That's g...

This will be a big year for new operating systems. Apple (AAPL) plans a new version of its Macintosh operating system, to be called Snow Leopard. Palm (PALM) plans an all-new smart phone operating system called Palm WebOS. But the new release that will affect more users than any other will be Window...

By Evan Ackerman Not that anyone prints anything anymore, but if you’re one of the few who prefers hard copies of colorful things like digital pictures and you can’t stand waiting the thirty seconds or so it takes for a nice print, have a look at this new type of printer called a Memjet....