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Canon Pixma iP100 portable printer $450 Excellent prints at a price

Craig Can Come To You

With his laptop computer and a portable printer, certified practising accountant Craig Roberts is set to go see clients. With several years' experience in Wollongong and Sydney, Mr Roberts set up his company, Abacus, offering a mobile taxation accounting service. ``So far as I know I am the on

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CANON has announced that it will release the world's smallest portable printer next month. The BJC-50 colour Bubble Jet takes an optional cartridge that can turn it into a colour scanner. It also has an infra-red interface that will save harried notebook-toting travellers the frustration of un

Apple Gives Printer Line A Revamp

THE days when you had to buy an Apple printer for your Macintosh are long gone. Many manufacturers offer Mac-compatible printers, but Apple's inkjet and laser printers remain popular. The inkjet range has been completely revamped over the last year or so. The cheapest model is the $695 StyleWrite

Portable Printers At The Right Price

CANON'S BJ-10 series of Little Squirts were the portable printers of choice for many travelling notebook users, but the company has gone one better, with its BJC-70 colour inkjet printer. To say the BJC-70 is a hit with road warriors, here and in the United States, is an understatement. Not only

Apple's Laser Line-up - A Printer For All Platforms

ONCE upon a time, most Macintosh users looking for a printer made a choice between Apple's ImageWriter and LaserWriter dot-matrix and laser printers. Other manufacturers soon caught on, offering Mac versions of their printers or compatibility kits for existing models. Apple didn't give up.

Pay-for-print Plan Wins Contract For Lexmark

PRINTER manufacturer Lexmark has won a large Australian Government contract by offering a unique payment method on printers. The Department of Social Security will receive 1800 of the IBM 4029 laser printers and only pay a per-print charge to cover hardware, consumables, service, and training instea

Quality From Portable Printer

THE battle for your briefcase has reached a new and dangerous phase. Today Hewlett-Packard announces the release of the first serious printer that can properly be described as ``portable". It may be difficult to leave home without one. The Hewlett-Packard DeskJet Portable _ known affectionat

More To Portable Printers Than Meets The Eye

PORTABLE printers are not always what they appear to be. There is a belief among printer manufacturers that, like portable computers themselves, portable printers are not always bought to be moved - at least not very far. People with restricted space often prefer portable printers just bec

Pint Size Printer

A PORTABLE computer printer no bigger than an egg carton is claimed to be the first major breakthrough in printer technology in 11 years. The radical battery-powered printer takes up minimal desk space, weighs less than 1kg with battery installed, yet produces high-resolution output on pl

Citizen Has Another Little Helper

WHEN it was released five years ago, the Diconix portable printer was revolutionary in its ability to liberate printer-dependant PC users from their desks. It was also great for stationary users who had no space for a standard desktop printer. More recently, Canon's Little Squirt and other

Postscript To A Laser Printer: Atari

EVEN with laser printers falling in price, there's still a surprising gap between the cost of an entry-level laser unit and a printer that has Postscript compatibility. Many readers will have heard of Postscript, but how many know what it does and, perhaps more importantly, how it works?