Follow sprint-ink.co.uk on Twitter for News, updates, offers and free stuff!


Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Get Creative With Your Printer – Print, Build And Fly Your Own Handmade Kite

Image
There are lots of great ideas that you can print off using your home inkjet or laser printer. All you need is a good printer and suitable   printer ink cartridges  or  toner cartridges   and you’re all set. Here’s another creative project that you can use your home printer for: Print your own pattern, to make your own kite. You Will Need: 2 wooden dowels, 90cm (35″) and 120cm (47″) long. The longer dowel is the spine of the kite, the shorter dowel the crosspiece. Plastic sheeting or recycled garbage bags Strong tape, such as packing tape or electrical tape Twine Kite string or fishing line Tape measure Scissors Pencil 1. Download the  printable kite pattern or print the image below. 2. Measure and locate the middle point on the crosspiece, mark with a pencil. Place the middle point of the crosspiece at right angles on the spine, about 30cm (12″) from one end. 3. Fasten the two dowels together using twine and tape. It is important
Read more

Major printer manufacturers form ‘Mopria’ mobile printing alliance

Image
As the Smartphone and Tablet industry continues to expand and the computing industry has  now   gone beyond the desktop PC, the technology to print from handheld devices has fallen behind. But, a new alliance of printer manufacturers, including Hewlett-Packard, Canon, Samsung, and Xerox, called Mopria, hopes to change all that. The Alliance announced the formation of Mopria on September 24. It believes it will make printing from devices much easier with newly developed interfaces that give mobile operating systems more simplified printing software and allow apps to draw on that ability. The Mopria technology will also govern printer technology so print jobs can sent by Wi-Fi Direct wireless networking or by tapping a printer with a phone that supports near-field communications (NFC). Phil McCoog, technologist with HP's printing business, said "If you are a printer vendor, and if you are solely attached to a PC, where is your future? We are moving from a device tha
Read more