In the home it’s common to install separate printer and scanner units, but that can be a real pain in the office. For one thing there’s usually not much space and for another you want to keep IT equipment out of the way.
If you add a fax and a photocopier to the equation then the [...]
Unfortunately, the myth of the paperless office is just that - a myth. We all seem to print more pages now than we ever did. Make a purchase over the Internet and you’ll want to print off your order acknowledgement. See an interesting Web site and you might print off a couple of pages for [...]
Converting printed material into digital form is one of the key functions most people ask of their PCs. One of the most common types of device for doing this is the flatbed scanner. Scanners, which can scan paper, photographic prints, and often transparencies and negatives, are the key tools for transferring all kinds of printed [...]
Laser printers always used to be big, clunky machines that sat in the corner of the office or on a separate desk, where they could chunter away producing manifests and contracts. As the technology grew cheaper and the designs shrank, they moved onto the desktop, where they’re still favoured over inkjets for producing crisp, black [...]
It’s the time of year, now that Summer is truly upon us, to get down to some serious scanning. Erm, actually, scratch that. If you’ve got a life it’s time to go and sit out at the pub all afternoon or get down to Alton Towers or somewhere like that. If you’re an IT journalist, [...]