One of HP's pitches will be easier printing of digital photos.
Say goodbye to long driver installs and hello to easier printing," said Ron Coughlin, senior vice president, LaserJet and Enterprise Solutions, Imaging and Printing Group, HP. "Our customers demand easy printing and we're giving it to them – no clumsy CD-ROMs to install, no drivers to download.
Until now, Eastman Kodak's snapshot printers have offered easy printing only to owners of Kodak cameras.
But for the more mobile professionals storing ever more documents in their handhelds, quick and easy printing will be essential.
Other products and services, ranging from payroll services to Web hosting are also offered from Automatic Data Processing, Beyond.com, Boise Cascade Office Products, DigitalWork.com, First Data, IBM, iSyndicate, Netopia, Network Solutions, Pandesic and World's Easiest Printing Solutions.
A $10 package includes 10 models for easy printing and the $60 King package includes a plethora of other pieces including barrels, traps, arches, and poison mushrooms.
It's quite slick, with a handful of templates to choose from and buttons to convert it to PDF for easy printing (or to share it on Twitter and Facebook).
The next step, say the researchers, is to create a way to map 3D objects for easy printing and to ensure that objects pop into place automatically when folded slightly.
Ripple's statistics are updated once an hour, include the geographic location of listeners amongst many other details, are available in RSS format (very nice) and are displayed in HTML (not Flash like some competitors) for easy printing.
The T10 has a 7.2-megapixel sensor, 3x optical zoom, 56MB of internal storage, supports Memory Stick Duo and Memory Stick PRO Duo media, and PictBridge for easy printing.
But the transition from online to print in Egypt is not easy; print is much more tightly regulated than the Web and the steps, which range from headache to brain teaser to brain tumor, seem never-ending.
