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These tables describe common problems that you might encounter when calibrating monitors or proofing files for color accuracy and suggest a solution for each problem.
After you start calibration, the following message appears: Communication error - try unplugging and replugging EyeOne.Confirm that the measuring device is connected. Firmly plug it into the computer.
And the logs show: Calibration failed : New integration time: No light.Make sure that the shutter on the calibration plaque was open to expose the white tile when you "zero" the measuring device.
You start the calibration, but the monitor does not calibrate successfully, or one of the following messages appear:Unable to setup monitor according to vendor instructions.
After you start calibration, the following message appears: The black measurement has drifted too much - must recalibrate measurement deviceThis message might appear due to any of the following:The EyeOne Pro colorimeter is not seated perfectly in the calibration plaque during the black calibration performed at the beginning.
White calculation: Sensor is saturated.To perform a successful calibration, make sure that you open the protective slider until it clicks into place to access the white reference ceramic tile on the calibration plate.
On systems with a NEC PA series monitor, the following message appears and stays for a while (possibly 50 seconds or more) when you switch between CALIBRATE and SETTING views.
Unable to setup monitor according to vendors instruction.For such large-screen NEC monitors, the SpectraView Engine mode needs to be set to ON in order for Matchprint Virtual to control the monitor to perform calibration.
The monitor appears to have a ghosted or burned-in image.A burned-in image indicates an imperfection in the monitor. If the monitor is under warranty, replace it.
A red X appears across the page and the MV icon indicates Monitor Not Calibrated.The status of monitor calibration is set to uncalibrated, and you must recalibrate the monitor under any of the following conditions:The calibration has expired for your monitor.
TheMV indicator icon is unavailable and indicates Image Color Conversion in Progress.The light source DVL files have not been generated for the custom color targets that you are using. Contact your InSite Administrator to open each of the custom color targets in the InSite Color Target Manager and click Update.
Locate the chip. It’s a tiny green circuit board about the quarter of the size of a postage stamp. They are often located on the front or bottom of your printer cartridge.
Bend a paperclip. You know the trick. You’ve been bending paper clips to solve computer problems since the days of floppy disks! In case you don’t know, simply find a sturdy paper clip and bend one leg out straight. This makes a perfect “poker” for getting inside those tiny buttons and eject ports that can be found on nearly all modern electronics. The stiff wire of a bent paperclip is perfect for resetting the chip on your ink cartridge.
Press the tiny reset button located beside the chip and hold for 10 seconds. Depending on the brand and model of the cartridge, you may not need to hold the button for 10 seconds, but it won’t harm the cartridge so do it anyway just to be safe.
Clearing the memory can give you a more accurate idea of your printer’s ink levels, the number of pages still available to print, and other valuable printing information.
Don’t make the same mistake with your printer’s ink levels. (If you stain your hands or clothes while refilling, turn that frown upside down! Here’s how to clean up!)
This is your reset button, and the only way to get in there is either with a paper clip or the tip of a pen (which will leave a tiny ink smudge on the button).
Some of the battery-powered models may not have enough voltage to fully reset your cartridge, whereas you’ll never have to worry about a power supply if you have a USB-powered resetter.
Repeat this process with the two green ink level contacts located just below the red contact and beside it, atop the first column on the right. (These contacts are in green in the diagram above.)
Shake your cartridge. The first thing you should try with an HP LaserJet cartridge that’s supposedly empty. This old-school trick will free up the toner particles that are stuck to the inside walls and nooks. After you mount it back to your printer, it may register it as full. You may need to deactivate the ink-saving mode for the printer to detect toner levels properly.
Install an HP chip to a replacement cartridge. This requires some fine motor skills and good tools. You’ll also possibly need to turn off toner level monitoring on the printer.
Get an aftermarket chip for a refilled cartridge. The majority of modern HP toner cartridges are equipped with a small chip that communicates toner levels to the printer.
Canon printers have thermal printheads. The ink actually cools the print heads down, and if you run empty cartridges the print heads can overheat and get damaged.
So, if you replace and remove the four Canon cartridges, and, on the fifth attempt, install a newly refilled cartridge, the printer should accept the cartridge, and ink levels should read as full.
Another warning will pop up on the printer’s screen detailing that you are using refilled or third-party cartridges and may void the printer’s warranty.
Each time you install a refilled or third-party cartridge you will need to follow the on-screen instructions to disable the Lexmark ink monitoring software.
Yes unfortuntaly this is the interpretation of today. Because of those shareholders we have this huge amount of pollutions and environmental damage. In the EU environmental laws are for strickt than in Asia.... whatever.... no point in discussing your future in Europe.
Would you feel better if it was sold off to America? Because that is what happened in the 80"s and 90"s when America went on a spending spree and gobbled up many companies.
It"s time for China to be the economic superpower. America has become less relevant with progressive policies in which goals is to share prosperity with the rest of the world.
That"s not a law of nature, a law of economics, and setting aside anti-rackets laws (which are there as money laundering prevention) that"s not a law.
A lot of people on "one side of the isle" believe (have been told to believe by their cloud sycophants) the government is responsible for the out sourcing of American jobs........nothing could be further from the truth. Profiteering by corporations in search of more profits at the expense of the U.S. working class is the culprit, and has led to the kakistocracy that now runs our country........working class survival be damned.
this is not the point I am trying to make. Everyone of us wants to have stability in our lives. Stability comes with all sorts of labour available between all social strata. Now you have only highly paid jobs in the cities but the manufacuring and labour intensive industries has vanished from most Euorpean cities because the wages cannot be paid for a normal worker but the Bank manager still want their 10million bonus even if the manager"s perfomance was bad.
Ronald Reagan broke the unions as almost his very first Presidential act-he was wholly owned by the petroleum industry and the Corporations. Greed is good. Poor people suck. (I grew up on the wrong side of Reagan"s ethos..)
During the Nixon era, CEOs went to prison for doing things that 2012"s Citizens United ruling codified into law as being just fine-Corporate money equals speech and infinite amounts of it can be poured into elected officials" pockets. So yes, it is exactly Corporate greed and malfeasance that put us where we are. We fight endless wars for their interests, we starve the least among us so the Corporation doesn"t have to pay taxes. We put provable idiots like tRump in charge so as to ruin our standing upon the world stage, our media flooded with conspiracy theories presented as truth.
And it isn"t just the R"s either.. been watching Pelosi and the DNC sell us out to them since the "90s because "electability." No wonder we are where we are. :-(
Well if it the managemanet failed, and they did, then they should have concentrated the businesses to make ik it more lucrative. Kodak introduced half-baked products of poor value. I wonder why ? Just to earn the quick cash?
They could have done so much more. And this is annoying with a lot of old large companies who have never learnt to re-position themselves as markets evolve.
I need a new film scanner anytime soon. A Pakon-Scanner with more resolution would have been awesome. However, Kodak did not see the need - and there are many photographers out there now shooting analogue.
Olympus has bailed-out of the consumer camera business. Rodenstock and Schneider have switched to machine vision. That"s three companies who are evolving away from photography.
Rodenstock, so I have heard from someone who works there, produces lenses for Leica. Rodenstock was divided into different companies and I believe only the divsion of glasses (eye/vision correction) remained at the original Rodenstock company. The photo division has been sold multiple times. If a division is past on all the time this is not good for company assets.
Schneider only lenses I have ever seen have been made for Phase One / Mamiya. However the Schneider branded lenses were all made by Mamiya. Not saying that they are bad. Zeiss lenses are made by Cosina or Tamron as widely known.
I"ve had the paradigm of "revenue over everything" for years, from the damnable tax inversions to activist investors to catastrophe of 2008. Time to learn more.
As having explained earlier a healthy popultion within cities consists of all soacial strata. In big cities the normnal worker cannot afford renting a flat/house however, they are needed to serve the community. Who is stacking the shelves at your local supermarket etc... They are equally important as managers or enigneers.. Moving and selling everything to China is bad for the quality of life you enjoy now. 80% we consume is coming from China and again I think locally produced products are more sustainable and more environmentally friendly.
If you look at food, basically all canned fruits, tomatos, tomato puree and what not is from China. China is steering the EU and the EU is no longer independend.
Here in Seattle, we"re always told how every old house and building is torn down and replaced with some ugly Corporate shoebox is wholly necessary because "density".. but it"s two grand a month for a broom closet literally the size of an RV inside while the working man"s wage in toto is barely two grand a month.
There should be a law that the percentage of new units built should mirror the affordability by the income bracket percentage of local residents. In other words, if 90 percent of the people in an area make $18-22 an hour, then 90 percent of units built should reflect that, and should be rented out at a realistically affordable price like $800 per month. Right now in Seattle, new units for the $250K and up crowd are being built six times faster than 10 years ago..
Over half of the tent dwellers along the streets of Seattle *have full time employment* but cannot afford anything in Seattle.. Or for that matter, east as far as Issaquah where the new units they just built start out at $2600 a month yet developers were given huge tax breaks because they were marketed to us as "affordable."
So the developers pay no taxes, get huge profits, and taxpayers subsidize some of those units to be affordable to the food stamp receiving Amazon workers who have to live there and commute to Seattle. Because you know, Amazon is a struggling startup who can"t afford to pay its workers a living wage..
There"s a difference between "rich" as in I bust my butt and grow my bike shop into a business that cracks the seven digit mark in gross sales.. and "wealth" as in so many untaxed billions of dollars that it is impossible to spend it all-and the sociopathic need to get even more and share even less of it.
I"m actually pretty happy with my shop being smaller-far less to worry about in a bunch of ways. And I regularly give of myself and to charity. Probably why I won"t ever be a billionaire. There"s a big gulf between wanting a Leica SL2 and some lenses versus a yacht with another smaller yacht inside it-and the sociopathic tendencies needed to accrue that kind of fortune in one lifetime.
Same here, I run my own business for 8 years now. It is stuggeling and I always just out of the costs. However, I am on the limit of what I can do. I need a second enigneer but I don"t have the funds for that. And now, the corona.... I don"t need to discuss that.
For the company that owns the surviving photographic assets, based in Hertfordshire, UK, see Kodak Alaris. For other uses, see Kodak (disambiguation).
The Eastman Kodak Company (referred to simply as Kodak Rochester, New York, and is incorporated in New Jersey.Inkjet Systems, Micro 3D Printing and Packaging, Software and Solutions, and Consumer and Film.photographic film products.
Kodak was founded by George Eastman and Henry A. Strong on May 23, 1892.Kodak moment" tagline entered the common lexicon to describe a personal event that deserved to be recorded for posterity.digital photography, despite developing the first self-contained digital camera.digital printing, and attempted to generate revenues through aggressive patent litigation.
In January 2012, Kodak filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York.photographic film, commercial scanners and kiosk operations, as a measure to emerge from bankruptcy, but not its motion picture film operations.Apple, Google, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft, Samsung, Adobe Systems, and HTC) under the names Intellectual Ventures and RPX Corporation.Kodak Alaris, a separate company owned by the UK-based Kodak Pension Plan.
The letter k was a favorite of Eastman"s; he is quoted as saying, "it seems a strong, incisive sort of letter."Kodak using an Anagrams set. Eastman said that there were three principal concepts he used in creating the name: it should be short, easy to pronounce, and not resemble any other name or be associated with anything else.
From the company"s founding by George Eastman in 1888, Kodak followed the razor and blades business model of selling inexpensive cameras and making large margins from consumables – film, chemicals, and paper. As late as 1976, Kodak commanded 90% of film sales and 85% of camera sales in the U.S.Kodak developed and patented the first handheld digital camera in 1975.
Kodak began selling its original camera, created by George Eastman, in 1888 in the US for $25. It was a leather-covered box camera that came pre-loaded with 100-exposure roll film. When used up, the entire camera could be sent to the Kodak factory, after which it would be returned loaded with fresh film along with the negatives and mounted prints, for a cost of $10. It was advertised with the slogan "You Press the Button, We Do the Rest".photographic processing.
The Kodak was a camera box built in the shape of a parallelepiped, with a fixed-focus lens on the front and no viewfinder; two V shape silhouettes at the top aided in aiming in the direction of the subject. At the top it had a rotating key to advance the film, a pull-string to set the shutter, and a button on the side to release it, exposing the celluloid film. Inside, it had a rotating bar (this bar was soon replaced by a simpler mechanism due to its manufacturing price) to operate the shutter: when the user pressed the button to take a photograph, an inner rope was tightened and the photographic exposure began. Once the photograph had been taken, the user had to rotate the upper key to change the selected frame within the celluloid tape.
Japanese competitor Fujifilm entered the U.S. market (via Fuji Photo Film U.S.A.) with lower-priced film and supplies, but Kodak did not believe that American consumers would ever desert its brand.1984 Los Angeles Olympics; Fuji won these sponsorship rights, which gave it a permanent foothold in the market. Fuji opened a film plant in the U.S., and its aggressive marketing and price cutting began taking market share from Kodak. Fuji went from a 10% share in the early 1990s to 17% in 1997. Fuji also made headway into the professional market with specialty transparency films such as Velvia and Provia, which competed successfully with Kodak"s signature professional product, Kodachrome, but used the more economical and common E-6 processing machines which were standard in most processing labs, rather than the dedicated machines required by Kodachrome. Fuji"s films soon also found a competitive edge in higher-speed negative films, with a tighter grain structure.
In May 1995, Kodak filed a petition with the US Commerce Department under section 301 of the Commerce Act arguing that its poor performance in the Japanese market was a direct result of unfair practices adopted by Fuji. The complaint was lodged by the United States with the World Trade Organization.
Although from the 1970s both Fuji and Kodak recognized the upcoming threat of digital photography, and although both sought diversification as a mitigation strategy, Fuji was more successful at diversification.
The Kodak "K" logo was introduced in 1971. The version seen here – with the "Kodak" name in a more modern typeface – was used from 1987 until the logo"s discontinuation in 2006. A revised version was reintroduced in 2016.
Although Kodak developed the first handheld digital camera in 1975, the product was dropped for fear it would threaten Kodak"s main income, its photographic film business.George M. C. Fisher reached out to Microsoft and other new consumer merchandisers. Apple"s pioneering QuickTake consumer digital cameras, introduced in 1994, had the Apple label but were produced by Kodak. The DC-20 and DC-25 launched in 1996. Overall, though, there was little implementation of the new digital strategy. Kodak"s core business faced no pressure from competing technologies, and as Kodak executives could not imagine a world without traditional film there was little incentive to deviate from that course. Consumers gradually switched to the digital offerings from companies such as Sony. In 2001 film sales dropped, which was attributed by Kodak to the financial shocks caused by the September 11 attacks. Executives hoped that Kodak might be able to slow the shift to digital through aggressive marketing.
Under Daniel Carp, Fisher"s successor as CEO, Kodak made its move in the digital camera market, with its EasyShare family of digital cameras. Kodak spent tremendous resources studying customer behavior, finding out that women in particular loved taking digital photos but were frustrated in moving them to their computers. This key unmet consumer need became a major opportunity. Once Kodak got its product development machine started, it released a wide range of products which made it easy to share photos via PCs. One of their key innovations was a printer dock, where consumers could insert their cameras into this compact device, press a button, and watch their photos roll out. By 2005, Kodak ranked No. 1 in the U.S. in digital camera sales that surged 40% to $5.7 billion.
Despite the high growth, Kodak failed to anticipate how fast digital cameras became commodities, with low profit margins, as more companies entered the market in the mid-2000s.Sony) but it lost $60 on every camera sold, while there was also a disputeCanon, Sony, Nikon, and others, according to research firm IDC.smartphones, and tablets.
Kodak then began a strategy shift: while Kodak had previously done everything in-house, CEO Antonio Pérez shut down film factories and eliminated 27,000 jobs as it outsourced its manufacturing.razor and blades business model used by dominant market leader Hewlett-Packard in that Kodak"s printers were expensive but the ink was cheaper.
In 2010, Apple filed a patent-infringement claim against Kodak. On May 12, 2011, Judge Robert Rogers rejected Apple"s claims that two of its digital photography patents were being violated by Kodak.
On July 1, 2011, the U.S. International Trade Commission partially reversed a January decision by an administrative law judge stating that neither Apple nor Research in Motion had infringed upon Kodak"s patents. The ITC remanded the matter for further proceedings before the ALJ.
In 2011, despite the turnaround progress, Kodak rapidly used up its cash reserves, stoking fears of bankruptcy; it had $957 million in cash in June 2011, down from $1.6 billion in January 2001.Citigroup to provide debtor-in-possession financing.Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and obtained a $950 million, 18-month credit facility from Citigroup to enable it to continue operations.
On January 1, 2015, Kodak announced a new five business division structure; Print Systems, Enterprise Inkjet Systems, Micro 3D Printing and Packaging, Software and Solutions, and Consumer and Film.
1884: The Eastman-Strong partnership was dissolved and the Eastman Dry Plate and Film Company formed with 14 shareowners. The Eastman Dry Plate Company was responsible for the first cameras suitable for non-expert use.
1885: George Eastman bought David Houston"s patents for roll film and developed them further. These were the basis for the invention of motion picture film, as used by early filmmakers and Thomas Edison.
1888: The first model of the Kodak camera appeared. It took round pictures 6.4 cm (2.5 in) in diameter, was of the fixed focus type, and carried a roll of film enough for 100 exposures. Its invention practically marked the advent of amateur photography, as before that time both apparatus and processes were too burdensome to classify photography as recreation. The roll film used in the first model of the Kodak camera had a paper base but was soon superseded by a film with a cellulose base, a practical transparent flexible film.box form and of fixed focus, and as various sizes were added, devices for focusing the lenses were incorporated.
1898: George Eastman purchased the patent for Velox photographic paper from Leo Baekeland for $1,000,000. After this time, Velox paper was then sold by Eastman Kodak.
1901: The present company, Eastman Kodak Company of New Jersey, was formed under the laws of that state. Eventually, the business in Jamestown was moved in its entirety to Rochester, and the plants in Jamestown were demolished.
1908: Kodak acquires the exclusive right to supply film stock for the MPPC cartel. A similar attempt to secure an arrangement with European producers at the Paris Film Congress the following year falls through when French courts rule it illegal.
By 1920: An "Autographic Feature" provided a means for recording data on the margin of the negative at the time of exposure. This feature was supplied on all Kodak cameras with the exception of a box camera designed for making panoramic pictures
1920: Tennessee Eastman was founded as a wholly owned subsidiary. The company"s primary purpose was the manufacture of chemicals, such as acetyls, needed for Kodak"s film photography products.
1930: Eastman Kodak Company was added to the Dow Jones Industrial Average index on July 18, 1930. The company remained listed as one of the DJIA companies for the next 74 years, ending in 2004.
1932: George Eastman dies at age 77 on March 14, 1932, taking his own life with a gunshot. The suicide note he leaves behind reads, "To my friends: My work is done. Why wait?"
1945: Kodak researchers discover the first ever detonation of an atomic bomb in New Mexico, because a radioactive contaminant was encountered in strawboard material used by the Eastman Kodak Company for packaging photographic sensitive films.
1976: The Bayer pattern color filter array (CFA) was invented by Eastman Kodak researcher Bryce Bayer. The order in which dyes are placed on an image sensor photosite is still in use today. The basic technology is still the most commonly used of its kind to date.
1976: The company sold 90% of the photographic film in the US along with 85% of the cameras as well as Kodak introducing a new president to the company, named Robert Moyer. Robert Moyer stayed on the board as a chairman until 1989.
1978: Kodak introduces the Ektachem clinical chemistry testing system. The system employs dry film technology, and within 5 years was being used by most hospitals in the country.
1981: Kodak was sued by Polaroid for infringement of its Instant Picture patents. The suit ran for five years, the court finally finding in favour of Polaroid in 1986.
1986: Kodak scientists created the world"s first megapixel sensor, capable of recording 1.4 million pixels and producing a photo-quality 12.5 cm × 17.5 cm (4.9 in × 6.9 in) print.
1987: Ching W. Tang, a senior research associate, and his colleague, Steven Van Slyke, developed the first multi-layer OLEDs at the Kodak Research Laboratories, for which he later became a Fellow of the Society for Information Display (SID)
1991: The Kodak Professional Digital Camera System or DCS, the first commercially available digital single-lens reflex (DSLR) camera. A customized camera back bearing the digital image sensor was mounted on a Nikon F3 body and released by Kodak in May; the company had previously shown the camera at photokina in 1990.
1993: Eastman Chemical, a Kodak subsidiary founded by George Eastman in 1920 to supply Kodak"s chemical needs, was spun off as a separate corporation. Eastman Chemical became a Fortune 500 company in its own right.
2003: Kodak introduced the Kodak EasyShare LS633 Digital Camera, the first camera to feature an AMOLED display, and the Kodak EasyShare Printer Dock 6000, the world"s first printer-and-camera dock combination.
November 2003: Kodak acquired the Israel-based company Algotec Systems, a developer of advanced picture archiving and communication systems (PACS), which enable radiology departments to digitally manage and store medical images and information.
January 2004: Kodak announced that it would stop selling traditional film cameras in Europe and North America, and cut up to 15,000 jobs (around a fifth of its total workforce at the time).
May 2004: Kodak signed an exclusive long-term agreement with Lexar Media, licensing the Kodak brand for use on digital memory cards designed, manufactured, sold, and distributed by Lexar.
January 2005: The Kodak EasyShare-One Digital Camera, the world"s first Wi-Fi consumer digital camera capable of sending pictures by email, was unveiled at the 2005 CES.
January 2005: Kodak acquired the Israel-based company OREX Computed Radiography, a provider of compact computed radiography systems that enable medical practitioners to acquire patient x-ray images digitally.
January 2006: Kodak unveiled the Kodak EasyShare V570 Dual Lens Digital Camera, the world"s first dual-lens digital still camera and smallest ultra-wide-angle optical zoom digital camera, at the CES. Using proprietary Kodak Retina Dual Lens technology, the V570 wrapped an ultra-wide angle lens (23 mm) and a second optical zoom lens (39–117 mm) into a body less than 2.5 cm (an inch) thick.
April 2006: Kodak introduced the Kodak EasyShare V610 Dual Lens Digital Camera, at that time the world"s smallest 10× (38–380 mm) optical zoom camera at less than 2.5 cm (an inch) thick.
January 10, 2007: Kodak agreed to sell Kodak Health Group to Onex Corporation for $2.35 billion in cash, and up to $200 million in additional future payments if Onex achieved specified returns on the acquisition.Carestream Health. Kodak Health Group had revenue of $2.54 billion for the 12 months to September 30, 2006.
April 19, 2007: Kodak announced an agreement to sell its light management films business, which produced films designed to improve the brightness and efficiency of liquid crystal displays, to Rohm and Haas. The divested business comprised 125 workers. As part of the transaction Rohm and Haas agreed to license technology and purchase equipment from Kodak, and lease Building 318 at Kodak Park. The sale price was not disclosed.
May 25, 2007: Kodak announced a cross-licensing agreement with Chi Mei Optoelectronics and its affiliate Chi Mei EL (CMEL), enabling CMEL to use Kodak technology for active matrix OLED modules in a variety of small to medium size display applications.
June 14, 2007: Kodak announced a two to fourfold increase in sensitivity to light (from one to two stops) compared to current sensor designs. This design was a departure from the classic "Bayer filter" by adding panchromatic or "clear" pixels to the RGB elements on the sensor array. Since these pixels are sensitive to all wavelengths of visible light, they collect a significantly higher proportion of the light striking the sensor. In combination with advanced Kodak software algorithms optimized for these new patterns, photographers benefited from an increase in photographic speed (improving performance in low light), faster shutter speeds (reducing motion blur for moving subjects), and smaller pixels (higher resolutions in a given optical format) while retaining performance. The technology was credited to Kodak scientists John Compton and John Hamilton.
November 2008: Kodak released the Kodak Theatre HD Player, allowing photos and videos stored on a computer to be displayed on an HDTV. Kodak licensed technology from Hillcrest Labs for the interface and pointer, which allowed a user to control the player with gestures.
June 22, 2009: Kodak announced that it would cease selling Kodachrome color film by the end of 2009, ending 74 years of production, after a dramatic decline in sales.
January 2012: Kodak received a warning from the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) notifying it that its average closing price was below $1.00 for 30 consecutive days and that over the next 6 months it must increase the closing share price to at least $1 on the last trading day of each calendar month and have an average closing price of at least $1 over the 30 trading-days prior or it would be delisted. From the $90 range in 1997, Kodak shares closed at 76 cents on January 3, 2012. On January 8, 2012, Kodak shares closed over 50% higher after the company announced a major restructuring into two main divisions, one focused on products and services for businesses, and the other on consumer products including digital cameras.
February 9, 2012: Kodak announced that it would exit the digital image capture business, phasing out its production of digital cameras.GlobalVision software integrated, as the core of its future business. Once the digital camera business is phased out, Kodak said its consumer business will focus on printing. It will seek a company to license its EasyShare digital camera brand.
September 10, 2012: Kodak announced plans to cut another 1,000 jobs by the end of 2012 and that it is examining further job cuts as it works to restructure its business in bankruptcy.
December 20, 2012: Kodak announced that it plans to sell its digital imaging patents for about $525 million to some of the world"s biggest technology companies, thus making a step to end bankruptcy.
April 29, 2013: Kodak announced an agreement with the U.K. Kodak Pension Plan (KPP) to spin off Kodak"s Personalized Imaging and Document Imaging businesses and settle $2.8 Billion in KPP claims.
October 17, 2013: Kodak brings European headquarters and the entire EAMER Technology Centre under one roof in Eysins, Switzerland. The relocation brings together the company"s European headquarters and Inkjet demo facilities, which were based in Gland, Switzerland, and the Kodak EAMER Technology and Solutions Centre, which was based in La Hulpe, Belgium.
July 30, 2014: Kodak is negotiating with movie studios for an annual movie film order guarantee to preserve the last source of movie film manufacturing in the United States.
June 2016: Kodak spinoff company eApeiron is founded with assets acquired from Kodak and an investment by Alibaba. The company"s mission is to eliminate “knock offs” and promote authenticity. Spearheaded by the company"s founder, chairman and CEO Charles M. Fernandez & Eastman Kodak CEO Jeffrey J Clarke (eApeiron"s vice chairman.)
July 28, 2020: The Trump administration announced that it planned to give Kodak a $765 million loan for manufacturing ingredients used in pharmaceuticals, to rebuild the national stockpile depleted by the COVID-19 pandemic and reduce dependency on foreign factories.U.S. International Development Finance Corporation, a government agency with international mandate.NYSE.U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission began probing allegations of insider trading by Kodak executives ahead of the deal"s announcement,
In 2021: Kodak removed a post from its Instagram feed that showed a photo from Xinjiang and made references to the Chinese government"s genocide against the Uyghurs. It was removed after Chinese social media users criticized Kodak.
Kodak provides high-speed, high-volume commercial inkjet, and color and black-and-white electrophotographic printing equipment and related consumables and services.
The NexPress platform is used for printing short-run, personalized print applications for purposes such as direct mail, books, marketing collateral and photo products. The Digimaster platform uses monochrome electrophotographic printing technology to create high-quality printing of statements, short-run books, corporate documentation, manuals and direct mail.
The company currently has strategic relationships with worldwide touch-panel sensor leaders, such as the partnerships with UniPixel announced on April 16, 2013, and Kingsbury Corp. launched on June 27, 2013.
In 1997, Heidelberg Printing Machines AG and Eastman Kodak Co. created Nexpress Solutions LLC, a joint venture to develop a digital color printing press for the high-end market segment. Heidelberg acquired Eastman Kodak Co."s Office Imaging black and white digital printing activities in 1999.
At present, Kodak has commercial web-fed presses, commercial imprinting systems – Prosper, VersaMark and commercial sheet-fed presses – NexPress digital production color press and DIGIMASTER HD digital black and white production printer.
In February 2007, Kodak re-entered the market with a new product line of All-in-One (AiO) inkjet printers that employ several technologies marketed as Kodacolor Technology. Advertising emphasizes low price for ink cartridges rather than for the printers themselves.
Kodak"s graphics business consists of computer to plate (CTP) devices, which Kodak first launched in 1995 when the company introduced the first thermal CTP to market. Kodak"s Graphics portfolio includes front-end controllers, production workflow software, CTP output devices, and digital plates.
Kodak"s Global Technical Services ("GTS") for Commercial Imaging is focused on selling service contracts for Kodak products, including the following service categories: field services, customer support services, educational services, and professional services.
Kodak"s Entertainment Imaging and Commercial Film group ("E&CF") encompasses its motion picture film business, providing motion imaging products (camera negative, intermediate, print and archival film), services and technology for the professional motion picture and exhibition industries.
E&CF also offers Aerial and Industrial Films including KODAK Printed Circuit Board film, and delivers external sales for the company"s component businesses: Polyester Film, Specialty Chemicals, Inks and Dispersions and Solvent Recovery.
The Kodak company played a role in the invention and development of the motion picture industry. Many cinema and TV productions are shot on Kodak film stocks.
The home market-oriented 8mm and Super 8 formats were also developed by Kodak. Kodak also entered the professional television production video tape market, briefly in the mid-1980s, under the product portfolio name of Eastman Professional Video Tape Products. In 1990, Kodak launched a Worldwide Student Program working with university faculty throughout the world to help nurture the future generation of film-makers. Kodak formed Educational Advisory Councils in the US, Europe and Asia made up of deans and chairs of some of the most prestigious film schools throughout the world to help guide the development of their program.
Kodak previously owned the visual effects film post-production facilities Cinesite in Los Angeles and London and also LaserPacific in Los Angeles. Kodak sold Cinesite to Endless LLP, an independent British private equity house.
In April 2010, Kodak sold LaserPacific and its subsidiaries Laser-Edit, Inc, and Pacific Video, Inc., in April 2010 for an undisclosed sum to TeleCorps Holdings, Inc.
Kodak markets Picture CDs and other photo products such as calendars, photo books and photo enlargements through retail partners such as CVS, Walmart and Target and through its Kodak Gallery online service, formerly known as Ofoto.
On January 13, 2004, Kodak announced it would stop marketing traditional still film cameras (excluding disposable cameras) in the United States, Canada and Western Europe, but would continue to sell film cameras in India, Latin America, Eastern Europe and China.Advanced Photo System. Kodak licensed the manufacture of Kodak branded cameras to Vivitar in 2005 and 2006. After 2007 Kodak did not license the manufacture of any film camera with the Kodak name.
After losing a patent battle with Polaroid Corporation, Kodak left the instant camera business on January 9, 1986. The Kodak instant camera included models known as the Kodamatic and the Colorburst.
Polaroid was awarded damages in the patent trial in the amount of $909,457,567, a record at the time. (Polaroid Corp. v. Eastman Kodak Co., U.S. District Court District of Massachusetts, decided October 12, 1990, case no. 76-1634-MA. Published in the U.S. Patent Quarterly as 16 USPQ2d 1481). See also the following cases: Polaroid Corp. v. Eastman Kodak Co., 641 F.Supp. 828 [228 USPQ 305] (D. Mass. 1985), stay denied, 833 F.2d 930 [5 USPQ2d 1080] (Fed. Cir.), aff"d, 789 F.2d 1556 [229 USPQ 561] (Fed. Cir.), cert. denied, 479 U.S. 850 (1986).
As part of its move toward higher end products, Kodak announced on September 15, 2006, that the new Leica M8 camera incorporates Kodak"s KAF-10500 image sensor. This was the second recent partnership between Kodak and the German optical manufacturer. In 2011, Kodak sold its Image Sensor Solutions business to Platinum Equity, which subsequently renamed it Truesense Imaging, Inc.
In 1983, Kodak introduced a non-standard 3.3 million byte diskette; it was manufactured by an outside company, DriveTec.Verbatim,Data Encore unit, which "copies software onto floppy disks in a way that makes it difficult for software "pirates" to re-copy the material."
In 1982, prior to this purchase, Verbatim had partnered with a Japanese firm; in 1990 Kodak exited the diskette business and sold Verbatim to this firm, the forerunner of Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation.optical disk unit.
Many of Kodak"s early compact digital cameras were designed and built by Chinon Industries, a Japanese camera manufacturer. In 2004, Kodak Japan acquired Chinon and many of its engineers and designers joined Kodak Japan.
The Kodak DCS series of digital single-lens reflex cameras and digital camera backs were released by Kodak in the 1990s and 2000s, and discontinued in 2005. They were based on existing 35mm film SLRs from Nikon and Canon and the range included the original Kodak DCS, the first commercially available digital SLR.
Kodak first entered the digital picture frame market with the Kodak Smart Picture Frame in the fourth quarter of 2000. It was designed by Weave Innovations and licensed to Kodak with an exclusive relationship with Weave"s StoryBox online photo network.
Kodak re-entered the digital photo frame market at CES in 2007 with the introduction of four new EasyShare-branded models that were available in sizes from 200 to 280 mm (7.9 to 11.0 in), included multiple memory card slots, and some of which included Wi-Fi capability to connect with the Kodak Gallery – that gallery functionality has now been compromised due to gallery policy changes (see below).
In June 2001, Kodak purchased the photo-developing website Ofoto, later renamed Kodak Gallery. The website enables users to upload their photos into albums, publish them into prints, and create mousepads, calendars, etc. On March 1, 2012, Kodak announced that it sold Kodak Gallery to Shutterfly for $23.8 million.
Kodak provides scanning technology. Historically this industry began when George Eastman partnered with banks to image checks in the 1920s. Through the development of microfilm technology, Eastman Kodak was able to provide long term document storage. Document imaging was one of the first imaging solutions to move to "digital imaging" technology. Kodak manufactured the first digital document scanners for high speed document imaging. Today Kodak manufactures scanners for banking, finance, insurance,
Kodak continues to produce specialty films and film for newer and more popular consumer formats, but it has discontinued the manufacture of film in older and less popular formats.
Kodak is a leading producer of silver halide (AgX) paper used for printing from film and digital images. Minilabs located in retail stores and larger central photo lab operations (CLOs) use silver halide paper for photo printing. In 2005, Kodak announced it would stop producing black-and-white photo paper.
Kodak is a manufacturer of self-service photo kiosks that produce "prints in seconds" from multiple sources including digital input, scanned prints, Facebook, the Kodak Gallery and orders placed on-line using thermosublimation printers. The company has placed over 100,000 Picture Kiosks in retail locations worldwide.
After two years in development, Kodak launched its on-demand photography service platform, Kodakit, offering one tap photography service in 92 cities, 37 countries in early 2016. The launch was formally announced in January 2017 at Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Kodakit initially targeted consumers looking for wedding and portrait photography, but soon shifted towards businesses seeking high volume photography – real estate, food photography, and head shots. Having failed to generate enough traction to justify its existence and facing competition from fast growing startups like Meero and Splento, the Singapore-based subsidiary announced that it will be shutting down the operations.
manufacturing facilities used to be sited at Harrow in north-west London (Kodak Harrow, closed in 2016), Morley in Leeds (closed in 2014Kirkby near Liverpool (closed in 2007), Annesley in Nottinghamshire (closed in 2005) which is now home to Sherwood Business Park.
The Kodak Research Laboratories were founded in 1912 with Kenneth Mees as the first director.Photographic Research Laboratories and then the Imaging Research Laboratories. Additional organizations included the Corporate Research Laboratories. Over nearly a century, scientists at these laboratories produced thousands of patents and scientific publications.
In 2005, Kodak Canada donated its entire historic company archives to Ryerson University in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The Ryerson University Library also acquired an extensive collection of materials on the history of photography from the private collection of Nicholas M. and Marilyn A. Graver of Rochester, New York.Kodak Heights" manufacturing campus in Mount Dennis, Toronto.
On March 26, 2007, the Council of Better Business Bureaus (CBBB) announced that Eastman Kodak was resigning its national membership in the wake of expulsion proceedings initiated by the CBBB board of directors.
Kodak said its customer service and customer privacy teams concluded that 99% of all complaints forwarded by the BBB already were handled directly with the customer. Brian O’Connor, Kodak chief privacy officer, said the company was surprised by the news release distributed by the Better Business Bureau:
It is inaccurate in the facts presented as well as those the BBB chose to omit. Ironically, we ultimately decided to resign our membership because we were extremely unhappy with the customer service we received from the local office of the BBB. After years of unproductive discussions with the local office regarding their Web site postings about Kodak, which in our view were consistently inaccurate, we came to the conclusion that their process added no value to our own. Our commitment to our customers is unwavering. That will not change. What has changed is that, for us, the BBB"s customer complaint process has become redundant, given the multiple and immediate ways that customers have to address their concerns directly with Kodak.
In July 2021, Kodak removed a post on Xinjiang from its Instagram page. The photo was taken by the photographer Patrick Wack who describes the region as an "Orwellian dystopia" in a reference to the Uyghur genocide. In later statements on Instagram and WeChat, Kodak declared its Instagram page was not a "platform for political commentary" and affirmed their "close cooperation with various [Chinese] government departments".
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Home printers are versatile printing factories capable of printing colorful spreadsheets by day and personal family photos by night. The latest printers have a slew of additional features, including better ink replacement costs and the ability to print wirelessly, so you can easily print from any computer or mobile device—no annoying cables required.
Most of our picks, like our pick for Best Home Printer Overall—the Epson EcoTank ET-3850—have advantages for home offices. However, if all you need to do is print stacks of professional-quality documents, a laser printer (either monochrome or color) might make sense. A monochrome laser is good for simple text printing needs because it has a low cost per page. For greater versatility, a multifunction inkjet printer, also known as an all-in-one printer, may be the better choice—especially if you’re using a single printer for work and family. All-in-one printers can print, scan and copy documents; some add fax capabilities and an automatic document feeder as well.
Need more guidance on how to buy a printer? The advice at the end of this article makes choosing the best home or home office printer a lot easier than you might think. Here’s our list of best home printers you can buy right now.
The Epson EcoTank ET-3850 strikes a strong balance between features and value. The ink tanks hold enough ink to generate 7,500 black and white pages or 6,000 full-color pages before needing a refill—and it comes with a full ink set. It prints letter- and legal-size paper and can print borderless images on premium photo paper. The front paper tray holds 250 sheets.
This printer uses a 2.4-inch color display along with buttons on the front panel to navigate among functions. Printing up to 8.5 x 11- inch photos or two-sided documents is also possible, but this slows down print speed. Epson supports wireless printing via several protocols, including Apple’s AirPrint and Mopria. In the mid-price range, this Epson printer will meet most expectations and needs for a home office.
The Brother INKvestment Tank MFC-J4335DW is a highly capable printer that does more than most at the same price. With a hybrid ink tank/cartridge system, a single set of four ink cartridges can last about a year. Brother’s INKvestment high-yield ink cartridges load from the front of the printer and can print up to 6,000 (black) or 5,000 (color) pages per refill, much more than you’d get with a standard cartridge design. The front of the printer has a 1.8 inch color touchscreen display and a full touchpad. You can also control it using the Brother Mobile Connect app or Amazon Alexa voice commands.
The printer has an impressive 4800 x 1200 dpi print resolution, for creating sharp output. It supports Apple AirPrint and Wi-Fi Direct for wireless printing. You can also scan and print directly from popular cloud storage services, including Google Cloud, Dropbox and OneDrive. This model has automatic two-sided printing, but not scanning. The automatic document feeder can handle 20 pages at a time.
The HP Envy Inspire 7955e generates prints using two separate HP 64 (or HP 64 XL) ink cartridges. Print features include two-sided and borderless printing. It supports any paper size up to 8.5 x 14 inches, including labels and envelopes.
This printer features two paper trays and will automatically choose which paper to use based on the printing task at hand. The document feeder (for the copier or scanner) can hold up to 35 pages. It has a handy 2.7-inch touchscreen display for navigating options and the printer supports an array of wireless printing protocols, including Apple AirPrint and Mopria. If you sign up for the HP+ Smart Printer System and Instant Ink delivery, you get six months of ink cartridge supplies for free (monthly fee thereafter).
From our review of the HP Envy Inspire 7955e: Overall, the HP Envy Inspire 7955e does everything that HP promises the printer can do. It does not, however, perform all these tasks at an above average level. As a general-purpose printer, it offers decent value and performs well.
The HP LaserJet Tank MFP 2604sdw is part of HP’s Tank series designed with economical, refillable toner cartridges. The printer comes pre-loaded with what HP describes as up to two years’ worth of ink, and it supports toner cartridge refills with enough ink to print up to 2,500 ($17) and 5,000 ($30) pages. Not only is this printer affordable to maintain on a cost-per-page basis, but it also quickly outputs long documents at a speedy 23ppm.
This all-in-one printer has a 40-page automatic document feeder, and a 250-sheet paper tray. The printer lacks a display; to control its features, you must use your computer or mobile device. Like other HP models, this printer supports a variety of wireless printing protocols, including HP Smart App, Apple AirPrint, Mopria and Wi-Fi Direct.
The Canon Pixma MegaTank G3260 offers all-around value and strong performance. It prints, copies and scans, has wireless printing (including Apple AirPrint compatibility) and accommodates a variety of popular paper sizes—from 3.5 x 3.5 inches to 8.5 x 11 inches. Plus, when you use photo paper, it produces beautiful borderless prints in the sizes of your choice.
Each time you refill the tanks with compatible ink, that ink will last the average user about two years (up to 6,000 black pages or 7,700 color pages). It has a two-line LCD display and buttons to navigate the unit’s functions.
The Epson EcoTank Photo ET-8550 has a premium price, but it also is a premium all-in-one. It’s a superb choice for printing photos, graphics, flyers or worksheets. Unlike normal all-in-one models, Epson has optimized this printer specifically for photo output. It delivers detailed prints with vibrant colors by using a six-color ink system—two more than found in the regular EcoTank line. The printer is fast and reasonable to operate. You can create 4 x 6-inch photo prints in about 15 seconds, at a cost of about four cents each.
The 4.3-inch, full-color LCD touchscreen display on the front makes it easy to operate the printer. This wireless model also has such useful features as double-sided printing and it can print on up to 13 x 19 paper—larger than the typical printer. The printer has a 100-sheet plain paper tray, a 20 sheet 5 x 7-inch photo paper tray and a 50-sheet rear paper tray. It has both wireless and wired connectivity and works with various wireless printing protocols, including Apple AirPrint and Mopria. This model scans and copies up to legal size documents, but it lacks an automatic document feeder.
The Canon Maxify MegaTank GX7021 is an ideal all-in-one printer for a high-volume home office or a family with a lot of diverse printing needs. Its refillable ink tanks can print up to 6,000 black and white pages or 14,000 color pages before the tanks need to be refilled—making it more cost-effective than cartridge-based inkjet printers. This printer is perfect for high-volume printing, with its 600-sheet plain-paper capacity distributed among three paper trays (two with a 250-sheet capacity in the front and one with a 100-sheet capacity in the back).
The built-in touchscreen provides a simple interface to switch among the print, copy, scan and fax. While optimized for busy home offices, this model can also handle the printing needs of your entire family. It even does an amazing job creating lab-quality photo prints from digital images when you use premium photo paper.
From our review:As an all-in-one inkjet printer for a home office, you’ll be hard pressed to find another printer that offers the features, ease-of-use and environmentally-friendly functionality as the Canon Maxify GX7021. Those who need the microscopic difference a laser printer can make will probably want to pay more for that privilege, but most people really don’t need to. This Canon model gets close enough for a wide range of needs. Check out our complete review of the Canon Maxify MegaTank GX7021.
Wide-format printers are indispensable if you need to print oversized documents, signs or posters. The Epson Expression Photo HD XP-15000 handles up to 13 x 19 inch paper, perfect for accommodating large graphic-oriented print jobs. It makes borderless prints at 5,760 x 1,440 pixel resolution—much higher than the typical office home printer.
With six individual color cartridges—two more than a typical inkjet—the XP-15000 creates superb prints suitable for framing. It can easily print creative materials for a small business, plus it offers a 50-sheet tray for specialty media (like card stock). This printer can handle automatic two-sided printing.
Not only does the Brother HL-L2370DW printer have a low cost, but when you need to replenish the toner cartridges, the cost is a moderate $45 for a genuine Brother TN730 cartridge with a print yield of up to 1,200 pages. This model really distinguishes itself with is 36 ppm print speed, significantly faster than even most mid-priced laser printers. The print resolution is also impressive for just a low-cost printer.
The paper tray has a 250-sheet capacity. You also get wireless printing capacities, plus USB, ethernet and Wi-Fi connectivity, Amazon Alexa voice control and automatic two-sided printing. This bundle from Amazon comes with one TN760 high yield toner cartridge and one TN770 super high yield toner cartridges—enough toner to last up to two years.
The Canon Pixma TR150 works as a wired USB Type-C printer and as a portable wireless printer (compatible with various wireless printing standards, among them Apple AirPrint and Mopria). The printer measures 12.7 x 7.3 x 2.6 inches and weighs just 4.5 pounds, making it easily transportable in a briefcase or carry-on so you can use it wherever your work takes you.
The unit has a 50-sheet paper tray that supports 8.5 x 11 inch or 8.5 x 14-inch paper. A 1.44-inch OLED display helps navigate print options. An optional battery pack (sold separately for $100) allows you to set up and print virtually anywhere. When powered by battery, the printer will generate up to 330 printed pages per charge. This portable printer lacks the all-in-one versatility of the HP OfficeJet 250, but it costs nearly half the price. For the remote worker, this printer will quickly become a welcome piece of equipment for printing from hotel rooms, coffee shops, or just about anywhere else.
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The HP Deskjet 3755 all-in-one is compact. At seven inches deep, it fits easily on a desk or cabinet. It prints wirelessly at up to 19 ppm (black) and has a sheetfed copier and scanner. Snag this model for $85 at Amazon and save $20.
Whether you’re an amateur or semi-professional photographer, the Epson SureColor P700 creates stunning, lab-quality photo prints at home when used with premium photo paper. The printer’s resolution is up to 5,760 x 1,440 dpi and it can print borderless prints up to 13 x 19 inches. B&H Photo’s sale saves you $200 off the regular price via a mail-in rebate.
The Epson EcoTank ET-2800 uses ink tanks, which keeps your ongoing ink costs low. It prints at up to 10 ppm (black) or 5 ppm (color). It scans and copies too. Save $50 right now at Staples.
Save $30 on the HP OfficeJet Pro 8035e—a speedy inkjet all-in-one printer which outputs pages at 20 ppm (black) or 10 ppm (color). It has wireless and automatic two-sided printing, plus a sheet feeder with a 225-sheet capacity. Get 12% off at Amazon. Buy it now for just $220.
For your most basic color printing needs, the HP DeskJet 4155e can do the job. It outputs pages at 8.5 ppm (black) and 5.5 ppm (color). It also handles copying and scanning. If you sign up for the HP+ service, you get up to six months’ worth of free ink cartridges. Save $25 and buy this printer at Amazon for $100.
Inkjet printers that use ink tanks will save you money over the long-term, but when you can save $100 on the cost of the printer too, it makes the deal even sweeter. Best Buy cuts the price of the Epson EcoTank ET-4850 printer to just $450. It prints at up to 15.5ppm (black) and 8.5ppm (color), and it can handle two-sided printing.
Your choice of printer depends on how much you routinely print—a few pages per month or dozens each day—as well as whether you want to print photos or two-sided documents. You also need to consider if you simply require black and white (often referred to as monochrome or simply “black” in the printer’s specs) output, or you want full color printing at your disposable.
Let’s look at a handful of other common decisions, features and functions to look for when buying a new printer.Wireless printing is a popular feature to look for when choosing a new printer.getty
Your easiest decision is probably whether to get an inkjet or laser printer. Lasers are a good choice if you print a lot of documents that need to be of professional quality to share with clients or colleagues in a small or home office environment. Monochrome laser printers are fast, reliable and relatively inexpensive—and best for text and graphs, but not graphics or photos. You can get a color laser, but those models are pricier and more complicated to maintain. If your printing needs sometimes include color—whether for home, home office or schoolwork-related tasks—an inkjet is your least expensive and most versatile option.
Laser printers can produce superior text quality as compared with an inkjet printer, making laser printers a good choice if your home office produces printed business correspondence, reports or collateral to be shared with others. To meet the average needs of a family—and for many small businesses—a full-color inkjet (either with ink cartridges or ink tanks) will be more economical and versatile.
Popular with both at home and in small offices, these printers can print, copy, scan and sometimes even fax—all from the same device. Some models include an automatic document feeder for copying or scanning multiple pages at once.
Full duplex printers can automatically print to both sides of a page. Duplex printers are nice to have at home, but essential in an office. Using this feature, you’ll save a lot of paper, so the environment and your wallet will thank you. On the downside, when using full duplex printing with an inkjet printer, you may need to use thicker paper (28 pounds instead of 20 pounds) to eliminate ink bleed through. This feature can also slow a printer’s output speed.
Beware: Some lower-cost models may print two-sided, but it’s a manual process. Also, some might have auto-duplexing for printing, but not for scanning. Pay attention to the specs and the printer’s design.
Not all printers are speed demons. Many printers report two different speeds—the time it takes for the first print to slide out of the printer and the pages per minute (ppm) once it starts printing. If you only print occasionally, print speed might not be that important, but it’s arguably the single most important feature if you print a lot of pages at a time.
Also, despite what a printer manufacturer reports is a particular printer’s ppm speed, when you’re printing graphics-heavy documents or photos, the printing speed will always be sl
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