If you’re buying a printer, either for work or for home, one of the choices you’re likely to be faced is whether to get an inkjet printer or a laser printer. Although they may serve the same purpose ...

Oftentimes, lower-quality draft mode is more than sufficient for most print jobs. This can help increase page yields. Nearly all inkjet printers can output in color, but that doesn't mean you should.

A printer that propels droplets of ink directly onto the medium. Today, most inkjet printers are color printers that use four inks packaged in separate cartridges: Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and blacK. The ...

I have been submerged in the commercialization of inkjet print production technology since its very beginning (around 2006/2007) when inkjet quality was initially labeled as “good enough” for ...

A project seeking funding on Kickstarter will allow you to print electrical circuit boards on paper using an inkjet printer. Michelle Starr is CNET's science editor, and she hopes to get you as ...

Instead of mucking about fabbing PCBs with the toner transfer method, or making masks for photosensitive boards, the holy grail of at-home circuit board manufacturing is a direct inkjet-to-etch method ...

From paper to plants, printing has come a long way since Gutenberg. These days scientists and engineers can print almost anything, from bones to robots to more printers using the latest technology.

Buy a budget-friendly inkjet or splurge on a fast laser? This decades-old question has some surprising new answers. Here's the latest advice about picking your next printer. For nearly a decade, Bill ...

The “inkjet vs. laser” printer stereotypes are becoming less accurate. Once home-oriented, inkjets now include models that are sufficiently fast and capable to keep up with an office’s demands. By the ...

This article was taken from the June 2015 issue of WIRED magazine. Be the first to read WIRED's articles in print before they're posted online, and get your hands on loads of additional content by ...

Thermal inkjet printers, sometimes referred to as bubble jet printers, use thermal energy or electricity to heat ink and apply it to a medium. They can provide a low-cost option for high-speed ...