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...price point I like to watch since it's where most of the cool new technology gets introduced. Generally, $200 printers can generate borderless 4x6s and 5x7s, and have color LCD screens and card readers so you can turn a shot into a print without turning on your computer. HP just delivered a new player at the $200 mark, and as expected at this price, it delivers a lot of performance. It's also a huge step forward for HP...
...Late last year I spent several days testing printers, making 4x6 glossies on eight or ten printers from all of the manufacturers you've heard of. After some blind "taste testing" of my printouts, I concluded that Epson made great printers. I also determined that HP printers had two problems: the HP prints were not water resistant like Epson's and Canon's, so any gooey hand could smear the ink, and that the HP's blues printed in an unnatural glow...
...catch is that I printed images on both the HP Advanced Photo Paper and the HP Premium Plus Glossy Photo Paper. While the Premium Plus images came out best in the image-quality testing, they were not smudge resistant like those printed on Advanced paper. But the Advanced paper has other benefits too: when you use it, you cut printing time down dramatically. A 4x6 on Premium Plus paper takes about a minute and a half to print, while prints made on Advanced paper take, according to my experience, just 18 to 20 seconds. In the business, we call that...
...fast, smudge-free images that, generally speaking, pass the picture-quality test. What more could you ask for? How about built in red-eye removal? Print from a memory card and any shot with red-eye will be fixed on the fly. It really works. HP also boasts some other internal technologies. One is SmartFocus, which sharpens up duller images; another is Adaptive Lighting. A hallmark of HP's imaging products, this mainly lightens faces that have been darkened by light flooding in from behind. Some people call that a "fill flash...
...from the vital U.S. retail market in 1999, Acer has since rebounded to become the No. 5 computer brand in the world. While global PC sales were up 14.7% overall last year, Acer grew at a 34.5% clip, meaning the company is gaining ground on the top four: Dell, HP, IBM and Fujitsu Siemens. "Most people couldn't see a turnaround happening, but Acer has a decent brand that's quite successful in Asia and Europe," says Steven Tseng, an analyst with Yuanta Core Pacific Securities in Taipei. "It's been a remarkable comeback...