Meanwhile, printing the digital images with an ink-jet printer at home brings back fond memories of darkrooms under the stairs with trays of developer, acetic acid and hypo.
As part of a growing trend to produce energy-efficient products, HP announced today a bunch of changes in its line of printers, including a color laser jetprinter that it says uses up to 65% less energy than other similar printers.
An Epson ink-jet printer's connector fit, but 3Com's marketers don't mention that Bluetooth behaves like a serial port rather than a parallel one, making installation difficult and keeping many printers from reporting things like the status of ink cartridges or paper jams.
Today tech companies like Sirius, TIVO and HP sell their products on the cheap so that consumers can subscribe to their satellite radio and TV services or be forced to purchase an endless supply of replacement ink jetprinter cartridges.
Britain's budget airline Easyjet was angered by the recent decision to leave the domain name easy-jet.com with its holder, a small printer cartridge retailer.