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Lexmark Genesis review: first look
Wednesday, January 5th, 2011
One of the most eye-catching devices on show at CES Unveiled – the curtain-raiser for the world’s biggest tech show – was the Lexmark Genesis.
This highly unusual all-in-one focuses on something that gets very little attention these days: scanning. Lexmark are rather cheesily referring to it as the “Now-In-One Printer” because of the speed at which the scanner operates.
Pop a document in the scanner tray – which unlike your traditional flatbed scanner, stands vertically rather than horizontally – and a preview of the scan appears on the Genesis’s 4.3in touchscreen LCD almost instantly (or within 750 milliseconds, according to a Lexmark spokesperson). A full scan is completed within a couple of seconds.
Can Lexmark change the way we buy printers?
Wednesday, August 26th, 2009
Lexmark’s inkjet printers have had a pretty rough ride from PC Pro in recent reviews and Greg Caster, senior development manager for inkjet R&D, admitted to me yesterday that its 2008 range was simply a step behind its competitors. To change that, Lexmark is finally moving to individual inks for its next all-wireless range of inkjet all-in-ones, and introducing a fantastic touchscreen interface that I’ll come to later.
But the real news for me – and for anyone who ever has trouble choosing a printer – is the way Lexmark’s eight-product line has been assembled.
Currently, buying a printer is a confusing experience, with too many competing manufacturers, each with too many printer ranges that contain too many similar models and accept too many different cartridge types. Even within a single manufacturer’s product range, the variation in quality and speed can be staggering.
Tags: all-in-ones, lexmark, Printers, touchscreen
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What’s in a name?
Tuesday, July 15th, 2008
Abbreviations are great, aren’t they? BBC, DVD, HSBC, DVLA, GCSE. Why use normal words when you can take almost as long to recite them as letters instead?
Of course, some conveniently shorten into a series of letters that can actually be said as a single, new word. Think acronyms like NASA, SCUBA, laser. Think VAIO.
Today I read of Sony’s redefinition of the famous VAIO brand, and it occurred to me that I had absolutely no idea what it had stood for since its creation.
Very Attractive If Overpriced, perhaps? (more…)
Tags: acronym, Asus, benq, Cisco, kyocera, lexmark, LG, samsung, sony, toshiba, vaio, xerox
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