Get picture ideal prints and increase your productivity with the Epson CX8400 the all in one that does it all. No matter what you choose to print, the CX8400 delivers at remarkable speeds. Get black and color text documents up to 32 ppm thanks to powerful DX3TM print head technology. Select, edit and print your favorite photos. Or, scan copy and archive important documents. You can even reduce or enlarge vivid, color copies. The 2.5-inch, tilt LCD features simple, instinctive menus and offers easy viewing of every image. Just insert your memory card within the multipurpose card slots and print beautiful photos, PC-free. Or, rapidly transfer files. With a convenient PictBridge interface, the CX8400 makes it easy to print in a straight line from your digital camera as well. Built- in Auto Photo alteration means you’ll get perfect photos every time. And, with instant drying DURA rite Ultra Ink, prints are prepared to handle right away.

(1). Product Type: Multifunction Desktop Printer

(2). Multifunction Devices: Printer

(3). Print Color: Color

(4). Manufacturer Part Number: C11C690201

(5). Manufacturer Website Address: www.epson.com

(6). Product Name: Stylus CX8400 Multifunction Printer

(7). Print Technology: Inkjet

(8). Interfaces/Ports: 1 x USB 2.0 - USB

(9). Scanner Type: Color

(10). Copier Type: Color

(11). Media Type: Plain Paper

(12). Media Size: 5″ x 7″, 4″ x 6″, 3.5″ x 5″, Letter, 8.5″ x 44″, 8″ x 10″

(13). Dimensions: 13.4″ Height x 7.1″ Width x 17.7″ Depth

Specifications

Manufacturer: Epson Corporation

Manufacturer Part Number: C11C690201

Product Line: Stylus

Product Model: CX8400

Product Name: Stylus CX8400 Multifunction Printer

Product Type: Multifunction Desktop Printer

Technical Information

Multifunction Devices: Printer

Print Color: Color

Print Technology: Inkjet

Maximum Mono Print Speed: 32ppm

Maximum Color Print Speed: 32ppm

Maximum Print Resolution: 5760 x 1440 dpi

Platform Support: PCInterfaces/Ports

Interfaces/Ports: 1 x USB 2.0 - USB

Scanner

Scanner Type: Color

Scan Resolution: 1200 x 2400 dpi Optical/9600 x 9600 dpi Digital

Copier Type: Color

Maximum Mono Copy Speed: 30cpm

Maximum Color Copy Speed: 30cpm

Media Types & Handling

Media Type: Plain Paper

Media Size: 4″ x 6″, Letter, 5″ x 7″, 3.5″ x 5″, 8″ x 10″, 8.5″ x 44″

Media Capacity: 120 Sheet Standard Inputs

Physical Characteristics

Dimensions: 13.4″ Height x 7.1″ Width x 17.7″ Depth

Custom Media Size: 3.5 - 44 inch

The brook of new printers hitting the market shows no sign of slowing down, with all the major manufacturers eager to fill every place, however small, with a printer of some explanation. Lexmark’s P915 Photo printer is a well-priced, six-color inkjet printer aimed at the home user and features an LCD screen and fast print speeds.

As befits a home printer, the P915 Photo Printer is no dull grey lump of plastic and is decked out instead in a somewhat less boring pale grey and tinny blue finish. With both paper trays comprehensive it measures 42 x 45 x 30cm, so it takes up a fair bit of desktop space.

The P915 Photo Printer comes with a 100-page feed tray and uses Accu-Feed paper handling technology to notice the media type, mechanically adjusting driver settings to make the best superiority print. It prints up to a maximum resolution of 2,400 x 1,200 dpi (dots per inch) for neutral printing and 4,800 x 1,200 when printing color.

Considering its price it’s a real surprise to find an LCD panel on the P915 Photo Printer; not only is there one, but the 2.5-inch panel is also color. It not only previews your photos (in stand-alone mode it also shows how the finished print will look), but also walks you through how to alter the print cartridges with a tidy little video, so you can see how to do it while you are altering them. And it displays a timer which counts down how long your print job will take.

All the controls sit on the front on either side of the LCD panel. To the left are buttons to rotate images seen in the LCD, and set the number you wanted to print? The power button is here as well. To the right sit the bulk of the control buttons, clustered around a larger toggle button. These control all the other functions related to printing your photos; print preview, choose, menu, stop/clear, resize and start. The tootle button itself has the dual functions of scrolling through your photos and selecting menu options.

At the far right-hand side of the front panel sits the card reader and PictBridge interface. The card reader reads all the normally used flash memory cards; CompactFlash Type I & II, Memory Stick, Multi Media, Secure Digital, Smart Media, Micro drive and xD cards.

Lexmark quotes presentation figures of 22ppm (pages per minute) black and 15ppm colour for the P915 Photo Printer, but these are, as customary, just engine speeds and were borne out by our tests of engine speed. In actuality it prints text at a shade under 8ppm, while this drops to 4ppm when printing a mix of text in adding to graphics.

Text superiority is good with sharp, unburned images. It takes just over a minute to print an A4 colour print on normal paper and five minutes when printing on glossy premium paper. Color prints show good color division and sharpness.

The P915 Photo Printer comes with Lexmark’s own Imaging Studio software which guides you through all aspects of your print job; printing photos in common sizes, attaching images to e-mails, printing from memory cards, printing albums of unreliable sizes of photos and resizing photos.

Samsung has publicized the accessibility of its latest color printer CLP-300 in India, which is it seems that the company’s negligible color laser printer in its class. Measuring approximately 15.4-inch x 13.5-inch x 10.4-inch, with a weight of around 30 pounds, the CLP-300 is intended to offer high excellence output quickly at a sensible price.

In Samsung’s CLP-300, large cartridges put back the small toner bottles, which give details the small foot print. With print speeds of up to 16 ppm (pages per minute) in black and white and 4 ppm in color, the new printer sports a high speed USB 2.0 interface, and is well-matched with Windows, Macintosh, and Linux.

In adding to the CLP-300, Samsung has announced four feature-rich network laser printers; that is to say the ML-2571N, the ML-3051ND, the ML-4551N, and the CLP-600N. Vice president - IT business, Samsung India, said, “We are looking at LCD monitors and laser printers as the major growth drivers for our IT business this year.” “We are targeting a 15 per cent marketplace share in mono laser printers and a 35 per cent market share in Laser MFPs this year,” Sharma added.

The Samsung CLP-300 is accessible right away for around Rs 15,990. With the introduction of the new range of network laser printers, Samsung now has seven network laser printers in its creation collection, priced in the range Rs 12,990-58,990.