Waste Not: Refillable Printer Ink From Silo

Like everyone else, I’m always looking to save a buck and accordingly shopped around for refillable-ink cartridge alternatives, despite the stern warnings from Canon (and other printer manufacturers) which claim I’d cause irreversible damage to the printer by using anything other than its branded ink. There was a time the major office supply chains carried generic ink replacements, but thanks to some legal shenanigans, they now only serve name brands. You can still find cartridge refill and recycling services on the web, but the quality, depending on your printer, is untested and varies widely.

QuickSearch PDF Reader provides powerful fast text searches

If you're someone who does a lot of work on the road, and needs to reference PDF source material, you'll find that QuickSearch PDF (US$4.99) from Olive Toast Software is the tool you didn't realize you needed. It has one job to do -- to help you find information inside large PDF files -- and it does that job well.
You type search terms into a text field, and QuickSearch PDF finds every occurrence, in every document that's been added to it. It lets you flip through each match until you find just the information you need. It's a great way of finding information for someone who wants to search, read, and get the heck on with their life.

The Paperless Office Inches Closer with Amazon Send to Kindle for Mac

Amazon is helping to bring the mythical "paperless office" a bit closer, if only by a tiny fraction. The new Send to Kindle for Mac app lets Mac fans join PC users to bypass the printer altogether and "print" documents directly to their Kindle. The question is, what's taking the other e-book providers so long to deliver similar functions? Can we get a little more movement here, please?

Vodafone to go ‘paperless’ with move to Skyparks

The ‘paperless office’, once a slogan to describe the office of the future, is now the tangible step forward for Vodafone Malta as it prepares to move into Malta International Airport’s Skyparks business centre. All printing will be centralised in two rooms per floor and documents will only be printed if the employee physically goes to the printer with a code. Default printing will be always duplex and a printing record per employee will be in place with a percentage target reduction per team.

Small business inkjets: how fast is ink?

There has always been a sizeable gap between inkjet and laser printers in terms of both speed and quality. Laser printers were always faster and inkjets always had superior print quality. While we've been able to depend on these age-old truisms for a long time, things have become less black-and-white in recent years. Inkjets have become faster, and laser printers are able to produce much higher-quality photo and colour prints. The price difference between the two types has also decreased through the years. The cheapest laser all-in-one in this test costs about as much as the most expensive inkjet all-in-one.

Evolis Introduces Primacy, its News Id Card Printer

Evolis introduces Primacy, the ID card printer that will set new records in rapidity, power and high performances. Easy-to-use, Primacy supports single or dual-sided printing and, just like other card printers from Evolis, offers superior quality.
Evolis Primacy supports any needs in card printing and encoding, from medium to large runs. This is the perfect card printer to issue transit passes, bank cards, identification cards, as well as multi-feature student cards.
For extended flexibility and top performances, Primacy comes either with a single or double-sided option. To answer changing requirements on the user side, the double-side option can be activated on site. This flexibility is also available for encoding options (magnetic stripes, smart cards or RFID contactless cards).
Primacy, the most powerful and flexible ID Card Printer
Primacy is the fastest card printer in its category and can print up to 210 one-sided color cards per hour, and up to 140 in the dual-sided mode. The ID card printer also ensures top-notch printing quality at an unmatched printing speed.
Primacy is the very first ID card printer in its category to offer this high level of user-friendliness through such a compact size. Primacy delivers cards in runs, thanks to 100-card capacity input and output hoppers which are conveniently located at the front of the printer and can be accessed easily.
Primacy is an eco-designed card printer. The energy consumption is on average 5 times lower than card printers form the previous generation. The card printer benefits form the ENERGY STAR certification and is compliant with the ErP directive. Primacy operates at a low 48 db sound level and, therefore, can be seamlessly deployed into any working environment.

Java-based PDF Studio 7.4 Pro has a non-standard user interface

Qoppa’s PDF Studio 7 Pro is a Java-based PDF creation and manipulation tool that runs on Mac, Windows, and Linux computers. While it’s not particularly beautiful to look at and doesn’t conform to anything that would be considered standard Macintosh UI design, it does offer a useful collection of features that allow you to easily create and manipulate PDF files.
PDF Studio 7 Pro offers up a pretty standard set of PDF editing features. Using the app you can combine or split PDF documents, add annotations, text, images, sounds or even other files to your documents. A signature tool lets you create a digital signature that contains an SSL certificate, an image of your actual signature, and which can’t be applied to the document unless you provide a password.