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Prints Charming

Thursday August 7, 2008
Drew Turney puts some multifunction printers to the test.

Brand Of Bother

Thursday October 11, 2007
Charles Wright gets under the hood of his PCs when they stop talking to his printers.

Get Into Gear

Saturday May 14, 2005
Setting up? David Lin looks at what's on offer to start up your start-up. Laplink Gold 12 Price: $219 or $139 upgrade from a previous version Rating: **** Website: www.laplink.com Symantec pcAnywhere 11.5 Price: $199.95 Rating: **** Website: www.symantec.com.au Sun StarOffice 7.0 Price: Free download ($131 for CD version) Rating: *** Website: au.sun.com Microsoft Office Small Business Edition 2003 Price: $799 Rating: **** Website: www.microsoft.com.au Corel WordPerfect Office 12 Home Edition ...

A Feast Of Rockmelons

Thursday November 28, 2002
There's a story behind the cover of the new Rockmelons CD.

Fringe Dwellers

Sunday August 20, 2000
Outside the usual range of peripheral devices like printers and scanners are some tricky products designed to enhance your life in the cyber zone. JOHN HAMPSHIRE reports. HERE you are, the PC is finally up and running exactly the way you want it. Now there's a minute to catch your breath and take

Computer Wares Get A Hard And Soft Slug

Friday June 23, 2000
Desktop computers should be marginally cheaper from July 1 but software will be more expensive, and there is some mystery surrounding what will happen to the prices of peripheral devices such as scanners and CD writers. That's the likely effect of the GST on retail sales of computing equipment wh

Project Success

Saturday January 29, 2000
It is a pretty safe bet that nearly every Aussie kid will be facing a school project on the Olympics this year, along with the dozens of other assignments handed out each term. In many households, computers and printers have done away with the scissors and glue. But while creativity and presentat

Powering Into The Future

Tuesday April 20, 1999
Computers, CD-ROM drives, scanners, printers and all the other tools and toys of the information age are today as perishable as eggs and ripe peaches. Time, and the headlong rush of technological development, have made that a make-or-break fact for retailers. A computer that was at the cutting ed

Printers To Dye For

Saturday December 12, 1998
Colour printers for less than $200 with a photo-quality finish? Yes, please. PURCHASE costs are down, print quality is up. So printers selling for less than $200 are worth your attention. However, there are running costs you should factor in before you buy. Low-cost printers do their best work

Round Here

Saturday November 21, 1998
As the data gets bigger, the storage gets smaller. David Flynn reports on the smart way to save - discs. FIRST it was photo-quality colour printers, then scanners. Now CD-Recorders are the latest piece of hardware to trickle down from the mahogany corridors of big business to the bedrooms and stu

Win An Imac Apple Pc

Saturday September 5, 1998
WHAT'S fast, blue-green, see-through, sleek and easy to use? The iMac, Apple Computer's latest offering for the home, which goes on sale today at a recommended retail price of $2,695. It has a 233MHz Power PC G3 processor, 4GB hard disk, 32Mb of SDRAM, 512K level 2 cache, a 24X-speed CD-ROM and supp

Toning Up Their Printer Image

Tuesday July 28, 1998
DAVID Finn sounds a bit testy. The Kyocera managing director knows his company's network printers do not enjoy the same brand awareness as those bearing names such as Lexmark and Hewlett-Packard. But he has no doubt that Kyocera printers are at least three, and as much as six, times cheaper to op

Environmentally Friendly Printing

Tuesday March 18, 1997
KYOCERA has a new range of Ecosys laser printers which, it says, are cheaper to run and kinder to the environment because they do not use disposable cartridges and their drums are guaranteed to last 300,000 pages. They say the Ecosys FS-1700 will print 10,000 pages for $100 against 2500 pages for t

If It Helps, Plug It In

Sunday February 9, 1997
Peripherals are those devices that plug into a computer to extend its usefulness. Last week we looked at printers, the most common of all peripherals. This week John O'Meara gives us a quick survey of the rest of the pack. With the rise of the Internet, the modem has come to rival the printer fo

Color Scanners Come Of Age

Tuesday January 14, 1997
SCANNERS are the new hope of the hardware makers who are hustling to maintain revenue at a time when PC and printer sales seem to have hit a ceiling. Growth of sales has been fostered partly by the popularity of the World Wide Web, but possibly more by the advent of cheap color printers and the

Broderbund Names The Successor To Its Landmark Myst

Tuesday November 26, 1996
THE long-awaited follow-up to Myst, the biggest-selling entertainment software title of all time, won't be released for months, but the first images of the new CD-ROM made their official debut at Comdex. At the same time, Broderbund, the company distributing the CD-ROM, announced that the sequel

Champagne Set-up On A Beer Income

Saturday May 4, 1996
COMPUTERS are probably among the most expensive things people buy these days but, as deputy principal Tom Lockley at Wiley Park Public School has proved, hardware needn't cost an arm and a leg. His classroom contains 30 computers and 10 shared printers and cost the princely sum of $6,000 to set u

Mixed Year In Pc Market

Monday April 8, 1996
DURING 1995, the average home-office PC buyer spent between $2,500 and $3,000 on an Intel 486 DX2 or DX4 machine and contributed to annual spending on home-office equipment, including PCs and printers, of $196.9 million. Average PC unit prices rose significantly during 1995. The figures, release

Cd-rom Christmas

Tuesday December 12, 1995
CHRISTMAS 1995 is shaping up as an Eldorado for computer retailers and software makers, what with the rush for multimedia computers, the release of Windows 95 and a splurge of new software titles. Although there will undoubtedly be bargains on store shelves this year, retailers will not have to k

Pushing Up The Daisies And Dot Marks The Spot

Tuesday November 28, 1995
RIP the daisy-wheel: today's wide range of printers includes traditional ribbon-based dot matrix, inkjet, thermal, laser and specialised dye-sublimation color machines. JUST a few years ago, we were very limited in our choices of printed computer output. Most mainframe or mid-range computers use

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