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Epson releases new Artisan All-in-One Inkjet Printers


Epson has introduced its new line of Artisan All in Ones on August 19, 2009 – Artisan 710 and Artisan 810. These inkjet printers are designed to cater to all type of consumer needs, right from home work to creative projects. These printers boast of built in Wi-Fi and Ethernet networking and automatic 2 sided printing besides other new features. These printers can also print wirelessly from Apple iPhone and feature a front USB port that can be used to charge various devices. These devices also feature a built in color fax with Automatic Document Feeder and a 7.8 Inch touch screen to enhance convenience and productivity.

These printers offer unique features for day to day printing requirements. These inkjet printers allow users to preview, select and enhance photos without the need of a computer using its touch screen. These printers can turn your photographs and pictures into personalized coloring book paper or note pages, or print college ruled, wide ruled and graph school paper. These printers also feature automatic red eye removal. These can be used to create and print custom designs on to Ink Jet printable CDs and DVDs. Its 6 color Ultra High Definition Claria inkjet cartridge delivers life like pictures while building resistance to smudges, scratches and water while providing up to 4 times more resistance to color fading. These printers support all popular memory card types and USB flash drives. However if you intend to use these with Apple Mac, then some functions may not work like accessing memory cards when these printers are networked.

Environment Friendly

Both these inkjet printers are extremely environment friendly. They are designed to be recycled, ENERGY STAR qualified and RoHS Compliant. These printers also support printing on recycled paper. In addition to this, these printers the power consumption of these printers is extremely low. Their power consumption for an year is estimated around $2. Through enabling automatic double side printing, users can save 50% of paper consumption also.

 

These printers are currently available through major retail stores and Epson’s retail site. These are priced at $179.99 and $299.99 for Artisan 710 and Artisan 810 respectively.

Source: Epson

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Sony announces launch of “SLIM” Playstation3


Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. (SCE) unveiled the new Playstation 3 on August 18, 2009. The new system features and extremely streamlined form factor with a 120 GB hard disk drive (HDD). This will be available in stores from September 1, 2009.

The internal architecture of the new system has been completely revamped to achieve a smaller and lighter body. Another improvement is in the power consumption area. New low power consuming devices have been used tosony_playstation_3reduce the power consumption by ? of its predecessor.

With this launch, the brand name for “PLAYSTATION 3” will be changed to “Playstation 3”, in line with its existing range of these high end gaming systems.

The new features of Playstation 3 are as below:

  1. The system software will be upgraded to version 3.0. It will provide a “What’s New” option where the users can browse available items at Playstation Store.
  2. The new system will come with an additional feature for Sony BRAVIA TV owners (BRAVIA Sync). It will allow users to use XMB on Playstation 3 directly upon connecting it with a Bravia TV using a HDMI cable, using the TV remote. It also has an “active standby” mode which will turn off the Playstation system once the TV is shut off.
  3. Users will now not be able to get the option to “Install other OS”. This is primarily targeted to reduce the count of issues that used to occur with this and to focus on delivery of gaming and entertainment content.

Product Outline

Product Name

PlayStation®3 Slim

Product Code

CECH-2000A (Charcoal Black)

CPU

Cell Broadband Engine™

GPU

RSX®

Audio Output

LPCM 7.1ch, Dolby Digital, Dolby Digital Plus, Dolby TrueHD, DTS, DTS-HD, AAC.

Memory

256MB XDR Main RAM, 256MB GDDR3 VRAM

Hard Disk

2.5″ Serial ATA

120 GB*1

Inputs/Outputs *2

Hi-Speed USB (USB 2.0)

2

Networking

Ethernet (10BASE-T, 100BASE-TX, 1000BASE-T) × 1

IEEE 802.11 b/g

Bluetooth® 2.0 (EDR)

Controller

Wireless Controller?Bluetooth®?

AV output

Resolution

1080p, 1080i, 720p, 480p, 480i?(for PAL 576p, 576i)

HDMI OUT connector*3

1

AV MULTI OUT connector

1

Digital out (optical) connector

1

BD?DVD?CD
drive (read only)

Maximum read rate

BD × 2 (BD-ROM)
DVD × 8 (DVD-ROM)
CD × 24 (CD-ROM)

Power

AC 220 – 240, 50/60Hz*4

Power Consumption

Approx. 250W

External dimensions

(excluding maximum projecting part )

Approx. 290 × 65 × 290 mm (width × height × length)

Mass

Approx. 3.2kg

Included *5

PlayStation®3 system × 1

Wireless Controller (DUALSHOCK®3) × 1

AC power cord × 1

AV cable × 1

USB cable × 1

Source: Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. Press Release

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