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 [...]
A digital camera is one of those rare products that successfully bridges the two worlds of IT (Information Technology) and AV (Audio Visual). That’s a bold claim to make, but we can justify it fully.
Moving from film to digital means that you never have to pay for a roll of film again, and neither do [...]
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 [...]
Not so long ago, a scanner was something that you plugged into your PC via the parallel port - or sometimes a dedicated interface card - before waiting an eternity for a poor representation of a colour or greyscale image to struggle onto your monitor screen.
With the introduction of USB 1.1 the tedious time delay [...]
With office space at a premium, the need for small, compact PCs becomes even more pressing. But the trick is to fulfil this aim without sacrificing anything in connectivity. With bulky monitors being replaced by flat panel screens as the price of these continues to fall, the main occupier of space becomes the system box.
The [...]