The Epson PictureMate PM270 4R portable photo printer is a nice compact photo printer. It comes complete with a carry handle and folds into a box when not in use. The quality is supposed to be very nice. It’s integrated with Epson Claria PhotoEnhance, as well as an ‘automatic scene correction function’ that optimizes skin tones, and color casts and exposure levels to produce photos as close to perfection as it’s possible to get.

You can also print without being directly connected to a PC. The LCD screen is a tiltable 3.6″. It even has a Bluetooth toggle to print photos from your cell or any other Bluetooth enabled device. The PictureMate uses a single ink cartridge which will be a blessing to many people. All in all it looks like a pretty convenient photo printer.

The Presto printer can receive emails and photos without having to be hooked to a computer. Think about it. That makes it a breeze for the elderly to get into the action. Those who are not comfortable with the computer won’t have to go near it. (Everybody knows that computers, like robots, steal old peoples medicine.) The printer comes with a $10 per month service, even though the service doesn’t seem to cover the internet connection.

It’s sort of like an Email to fax setup. After setting it up you can even SPAM-filter incoming messages. All you need is a regular phone line. It sells for about $150. All in all that’s not alot to pay to keep the elderly or computer-shy informed and be able to send them photos and emails. Grandma will be happy because she gets neat pictures through the magic box and Grandpa’s ears will be happy because she’s occupied and won’t nag him about watching TV all day. Everybody wins.

Brother is wrapping up 2007 by bringing us word of two new laser printers – one of which is designed for wireless printing. The new HL-2170W and HL-2140 are priced at around $150 and $120 respectively.

The HL-2170W is the printer which is compatible with print broadcasts from 802.11 enabled computers on a network. It also has Ethernet capability. It hosts 32MB of memory, can print up to 23 pages per minute and holds an enclosed lower paper tray which holds up to 250 sheets of paper.

Samsung recently unveiled a new monochrome laser printer for the SOHO market. The new Samsung ML-2851ND is priced at around $330.

The Samsung ML-2851ND has the ability to print 30 monochrome pages per minute. Estimated first page out speed, according to Samsung, is 8.5 seconds. Memory on this printer can be expanded to 160MB for larger printing jobs. DPI output is noted to be 1200 x 1200.

We know – it’s a printer. How boring…yeah, yeah. We do try to cover them once in a while though for those people who actually like to know how many pages per minute print. That being said, check out the new Brother DCP-9040CN, priced at around $600.

The Brother DCP-9040CN spits out up to 21 pages per minute in both color and monochrome. It’s classified by Brother as a digital laser copier/printer. It is network ready via an Ethernet port and also offers USB 2.0 connectivity. This printer can also scan in color up to 19200 x 19200 dpi interpolated and copy up to 17 pages per minute in both color and black and white.

Sure you could design and print off your own labels for any burned DVDs or CDs that you make but why bother when you have a Sharpie pen within easy grasp? For those of you that aren’t as filled with sloth as ourselves and are also on a budget Dymo’s DiscPainter offers an affordable alternative to those expensive CD printers out there. For a cost of $279 you get a printing station that can produce high quality disc artwork and it only takes one minute of wait time to do so. The software that comes with the printer is compatible with all of the other major art programs like Quark, Photoshop and Illustrator so you don’t need to worry about compatibility issues. Amazingly it only weighs a little over two-and-a-half pounds and is about as compact as today’s average printers. The Dymo DiscPainter hasn’t arrived on the market yet but should be here soon so start brushing up on your Photoshop skillz.

In a way, the Casio USB label mouse from Brando looks like an updated fortune cookie. It’s a pretty innovative doubling up of 2 products. Just print labels directly from your mouse.

This is probably for those people that need to label everything with their name on it. There is a drawback however. The thermal roll paper isn’t cheap. It retails for $14 for a pack of 3. Ouch! The mouse itself costs $29. But you really can’t put a price on cool. It might save your desktop from Post-It overload.

While there never really is anything sexy to say about all-in-one printers Brother has unveiled a few new models which at least have our heads turning. The most interesting of these is the MFC-885CW, priced at around $250.

The Brother MFC-885CW is one of the first inkjet printers to sport a widescreen color LCD, measuring 4.2-inches. This larger screen display, says Brother, helps users better preview digital photos off of a supported media card as well as previewing incoming faxes before printing. This model is also quite network ready, offering both Ethernet and wireless 802.11 connectivity offerings.

Canon today introduced a new compact photo printer it says is easy to operate and offers new creative print functions. The Canon SELPHY ES2 Compact Photo Printer is priced at around $200.

The SELPHY ES2 Compact Photo Printer sports a three-inch LCD screen which can be tilted upward for easy viewing. It has what is called an “Easy Photo Pack” system, meaning paper and ink are loaded at the same time. Users can create photos without a computer, choosing from a variety of creative options like 16 different templates to frame postcard-sized photos and new clip art options to add illustrations.

Canon unveiled today a horde of new digital imaging products. One of these is the compact and portable Pixma mini320 Compact Photo Printer, priced at around $180.

The Pixma mini320 is the first in its compact photo printer family to print what Canon says are photo lab quality images up to 5-inches x 7-inches. The printer comes with a 2.5-inch LCD screen with wide viewing angles and offers a scroll wheel interface. Consumers can print photos from compatible memory cards, digital cameras or camcorders, Bluetooth devices and a compatible camera phone.

Canon today unveiled a new laser multi-function printer which brings duplex printing and network capabilities to small and home office settings. The Canon imageClass MF4270 is priced at around $300 and should be available next month.

The Canon imageClass MF4270 is one of Canon’s smallest printers in its category and outputs in monochrome at up to 21 letter-sized pages per minute. It can print duplex directly from a PC as well as incoming faxes and copying letter-sized documents. With its 35 sheet automatic document feeder it can copy single sided documents and push out double-sided pages as well.

As if there aren’t enough things we’re exposed to in our day-to-day lives that could potentially cause cancer, a recent study done by researches at Australia’s Queensland University of Technology suggest that some printers in the office place could be emitting particles that are small enough to be a health risk to workers near them.

In the study the researches found that of 62 printers studied, 17 of them they considered “high particle emitters” with one of them putting out tiny, potentially dangerous particles at the same rate as a burning cigarette. According to professor Lidia Morawska who authored the study, the particles being emitted from the printer are similar in size to those that come from cigarettes. The tiny particles are able to make their way to the smaller parts of the …

Brando has an interesting looking USB powered label printer which is kinda’ cool in itself, but they had to take it a step further and make the device egg-shaped. The Casio USB label printer, like it sounds, is powered by the USB connection from your computer and comes with some driver software to allow you to print out your own self-stick labels.

You can print in any TrueType font from your computer as the device uses a thermal printer head to create the your custom labels. The egg-shaped printing gadget is 79mm tall including the little stand its on and is a nice change in color and shape from most of the peripherals on a persons desk. The Casio USB label printer runs $29 from Brando.

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With the advent of digital cameras and the ease of printing your own photos there has been a rush on making friendlier printers for publishing your own family portraits. Canon is making it easier for those of us on budgets to cut out the one-hour photo mart by bringing us the Selphy CP740, a printer that costs a penny under $100.

It’s able to turn out 4×6 color prints in a minute straight from your camera or any of the major memory card formats. The 2-inch LCD display lets you cycle through your images and make any corrections that you may need like erasing red-eye flash by just pressing a single button. The Selphy also supports IrDA and IrSimple infra-red communication. There’s also a retractable USB cord and a Bluetooth and battery pack add-ons so you can take the unit just about anywhere.

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Most households have two or more computers but only one printer. Often that means whichever computer is connected to the printer becomes the defacto station for everyone in the family’s printing needs, which in turn means everyone needs to use it.

Lexmark is offering a solution to the traffic congestion with its Z1420 Wireless Color Printer allowing everyone the ease of printing off their copies from wherever they are within the home. The Z1420 has built-in 802.11 b/g wireless compatibility so nearly all WiFi can establish a secure connection to it. It can churn out up to 24 pages per minute in black and white and 18 ppm in color, with resolution up to 4800 x 1200 dpi and optional 6-color printing. Lexmark says that the installation software is a breeze and that its Accu-feed technology makes paper jams a thing of the …