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Lexmark Genesis S815

Tuesday, July 31st, 2012

This Printer stands out on looks alone, initially it was quite pricey but it is now priced at £ 98.40* Amazon.co.uk.

This printer has a smaller footprint and looks that impress.  It can scan a picture in 3 seconds.  This is due to the 10 megapixel camera sensor.  You can also reposition pages as it shows an image of what you are scanning on the front.  If you scan a lot this printer is ideal.

The printers touch screen is 4.3 inch which is easy to use. The printer connects through Wi-Fi, once connected if you want you can install Lexmark’s Smart Solutions mini-apps, there are over 60 apps available at the moment, Including a calculator, display clock or access to Facebook or Twitter.

The printer uses thermal inkjet technology with 4800 x1200 dpi (dots per inch) a quality A4 photo can take up to 2 minutes 30 seconds.  Printing 20 sheets can take up to Six minutes which is Ok for home use but may struggle in an office environment.  There are also handy features such as Double sided printing and an integrated fax machine.  It has slots for SD, MMC, XD and Memory USB pen.

The Genesis printer takes the Lexmark 100xl ink cartridges.

Overall this is a good looking printer and it has some great features the only thing that I would say is printing does take a little longer. But the scanning time is the best I have seen.

*Prices correct on writing this article

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Kodak ESP 3.2 All in one printer

Thursday, July 19th, 2012

This is the newest printer in the Kodak Range it’s an all in one printer that scans and copies to a high standard. Priced at £79* Kodak.co.uk this newest addition is the PC mag.com Editors choice. It definitely gets the thumbs up from me.

What stands out is that it is easy to use and has a touch screen 6.1cm; you can print wirelessly and print from your smart phone I pad tablet or computer.

The Print resolution is 9600 Dpi on the optimised setting.    The scanner is a 1200 DPI optical scanner 24-bit 9600DPI and it can print a 4×6 inch photo in 38 seconds.

There is also a Memory card reader so you can print without being connected to your computer.

This printer is ideal for someone that wants quality printing  you get a touch screen that is easy to use.  The price of the Original Ink cartridges is £22.96* for the black and colour cartridges. The ink itself is KODAK Premium Pigment-Based Inks dry instantly, are smudge and water resistant, and last a lifetime so it combined with the good quality reasonably priced ink, this printer is very good value for the money.

*Prices correct on writing this article

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Canon PIXMA MG8250

Thursday, July 19th, 2012

What a marvellous printer Canon have manufactured, it seems to be everything someone would nee

d in a printer, and it’s not too big but there again not small either but is perfect in every way possible.

The Key features:

Transparency Scanner
Direct CD/DVD print
Fastest A4 PIXMA printer
Remote printing via PIXMA cloud link
Eos camera look and feel

It looks to be a very plain printer, not attractive, just looks like a black box, until the on button is clicked and an 88mm LCD display pops up and you get Blackpool illuminations in your room when the touch buttons appear in front of the LCD screen. It simply is marvellous!

Under the lid of the printer is a fold down front panel which becomes the output tray, and just below that is a 150 sheet paper cassette, but there is also a second 150 sheet paper tray at the rear of the printer where you can insert photo paper/card instead of the hassle of always chopping and changing making sure you have the right number of sheets for the print you’re doing. There’s is a third compartment which is for the CD/DVD printing.

On the right hand side is another flap which can be opened which allows you access to three memory card slots adding Compact Flash to SD and memory sticks, under these is a USB/PictBridge socket for instant printing from your camera. You can simply scan the pictures in by removing the white reflector under the scanner lid and using the transparency adaptor to scan in slides or negatives, which are at a resolution of 4800 x 9600ppi.

The other functions of this printer is the wireless connection which is pretty great as it gives the access to a wide range of print technologies including the PIXMA Cloud Link which uses Google Cloud Print, and Airprint for the iPad, iPhone and so on.

Simply quite marvellous….Can it make a good cuppa too? Unfortunately this is expecting too much, possibly in the future of technologies!

It takes a total of 6 ink cartridges which you can also includes a grey cartridge which does come in very handy printing in black and white photos. If you click on the following you will be able to find a range of the cartridges that we do stock: Canon PIXMA MG8250

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Advent ink cartridges have ARRIVED!

Wednesday, July 11th, 2012

We finally have manufactured compatible Advent ink cartridges for the A10, the AW10 and AWP10, and they’re selling like hot cakes!

Advent ABK10 Black and ACLR10 Colour Compatible Ink Cartridges

Weekly we got the odd customer asking for Advent cartridges and unfortunately we had to let them down but now we can finally say scream it from the roof tops that we do stock the compatible cartridges and great prices! Get yourself over to our website and have a browse at our prices.

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How to print better photographs

Thursday, July 5th, 2012

The summer holidays are soon upon us.  There are a few factors or things to consider when printing your photographs, the printer you use, the paper quality,  the camera that you use even effects your print quality.  Here are a few suggestions to improve the quality of the photographs you can print.

1) If you are looking to buy a new printer and you print a lot of photographs consider looking for a printer that is capable of printing photographs and graphics in a higher resolution.  If you also look for 48 bit colour support and scanning dpi (dots per inch) resolution of no less than 2,400

2) Also consider buying designated photo printer which will produce better results as it is designed specifically to print photographs.

3) Use photo paper instead of the normal mainstream printer paper making sure it is compatible with your printer.

4) Take care of your printer Check your manual for any maintenance procedures or cleaning that you can do.

5) When printing, check your printer settings to see if you can set it to print on the highest quality photo prints.

6) Before taking your photographs, if you check in your camera settings and you can select the resolution to be on maximum size.  The resolution is a term which means how many pixels a digital picture is made up.  If you have ever printed a picture out and it looks like there are squares on the page the resolution needs to be higher or the picture made smaller for this not to happen.

7) After taking your photographs and before printing out a photograph you can select the highest resolution for your image. On your computer, if you right click on your mouse and select properties this can determine the resolution.  If you choose this to be between 2,400- 4,800 dpi.(dots per inch)

8) Check out programs like Photoshop or programs on your computer that can fix problems like red eye or you can also improve the sharpness of your photos.   In some software programs you even help you delete blemishes, stray hairs or even delete distracting backgrounds.

I hope these suggestions are helpful and improve the quality of your printed photographs.

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Summertime!

Tuesday, July 3rd, 2012

It’s that time of year where all the children are finishing for uni breaks, the 6 weeks school holidays, and family holidays abroad, which means it’s time for everyone to get their cameras out and start snapping away taking photos of their days out, children playing happily in all weather, holiday memories and so many more…

It’s more than likely people will need a lot more cartridges and the printer sales will shoot up as people like to have great printing quality when it comes to photographs and there are always the summer time sales with brilliant printers on offer which people jump at the chance whilst they can! This is where Cartridge discount comes in to help you as a customer, we offer a wide variety of ink cartridges from HP to Canon, Epson to Kodak and so on, but we also offer glossy photo paper and Matt photo paper ranging from 20 sheets up to 100 sheets, A4 to A6! Why don’t you pop on through to our website and have a look at what we have to offer.

Enjoy the summer!

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