He said the UK printer market (a definition which includes the people who buy them) "lacks focus, lacks interest and lacks expertise". Even some vendors keep their distance: Hewlett-Packard (HP), for example, gets very cross whenever it's referred...
The company also plans to introduce the HP Print Server Appliance 4250, a server designed specifically for managing printing tasks such as distributing print drivers, spooling printer requests and hosting documents that are waiting to be printed.
The networked monochrome laser printer promises speeds of 35 pages per minute (ppm) and sells for $999. The $99 Personal Inkjet Printer J740 is designed to work at speeds of up to 18 ppm for standard text, and 14 ppm for colour.
Lexmark unveiled the X422 workgroup multifunction printer and the C752L laser printer range all targeted at SMEs - but in an interview with silicon.com, Eamon Ryan, European VP and general manager of the printing and services division at Lexmark...
Rob Neil, head of ICT and customer service at Ashford Borough Council, told silicon.com: "Technology issues are the least of the problem - the real issue is the cultural change required to prise people away from their 'own' desktop or workgroup...
The study described as "high-level emitters" any printer that produced a ratio greater than 10, when comparing the "submicrometre particle number concentration peak value" emitted by the printer with the general background concentration value.