Wednesday, November 23, 2011

Shopping for Office and Home Supplies in a Breeze

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Have you ever experienced being in the middle of a printing job using your HP printer and then suddenly you run out of toner? No experience can be as annoying, right? Most probably, you try the print command again, hoping against hope that the prompt telling you to replace your HP Q7553X cartridge is just some sort of malfunction. Still the prompt appears; and by this time, you resort to restarting your PC but still to no avail.
You run to the nearest home and office supply depot, but unfortunately it has already closed five minutes ago. Your next option is the nearest 24-hour convenience, but the store clerk informs you with a smirk that they do not sell the HP Q7553X toner you are desperately looking for. So you are left with no option but to wait the next day for the depot to open, which can already be too late. These are not scenes from the movie A Series of Unfortunate Events because countless people have experienced the same situation in real life.
By shopping online for your home and office needs, you omit the above drama from printing. The following are advantages when you buy your supplies online:
1) Everything you need right in the palm of your hands. You will find all the supplies you are looking for when you go online. There are shops that also sell home and office furniture and appliance along with inks and toner.
2) Competitive pricing that enables you to save more. Basing on the law of supply and demand, you would expect that with all the online shops that sell home and office supplies, pricing becomes competitive. It is easy to compare which shops allow you to save more through special discounts and price mark downs they give.
3) Best customer service 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. You can contact the online shop anytime you have a problem. Want to return a toner because of ordering the wrong one? You can do so any time of the day. Do you need to ask how to install the toner as it is your first time to replace it? Then ask away and have your question answered instantly.
4) Only the latest technology in home and office supplies. Unlike stores that run physical establishments, online shops have a fast move out of products with customers all over the globe. You can then expect new and upgraded products to be released every time.
Best of all, you can shop right in the comforts of your own home. This will also allow you to save on your travel expenses as well as time and efforts spent in physically shopping for your supplies. So the next time you run out of HP Q7553X toner, let online shops like Q Supplies take care of your needs. You can even opt to order the two cartridges in one part number, which saves you money compared to buying them per piece. This will also give you a spare when you run out of toner.

Battle to the Death: Cheap Bargain Ink Versus Expensive Original Toners

The economic recession has brought in a generation more concerned with quantity more than quality. However, many are unaware that by focusing more on quantity, you also sacrifice quantity in the long run. Yes, you read it correctly. Giving more importance to quantity also sacrifices quantity.
The age-old debate about whether to choose cheap bargain inks over expensive original toner cartridges still has not been settled. So to end the agony of the printer-buying populace, who even until now do not know whether to choose printers that run on ink or those on toner (such as the HP Q7551A), the below arguments will lead to resolving the matter once and for all. Thus, this will allow you to make a sound choice the next time you buy a printer.
But before laying the arguments on the table, there is a need to differentiate between inks and toner. Ink cartridges have fluid or liquid in them and make prints by spraying the ink onto the paper. Toner cartridges like the HP Q7551A, on the other hand, are filled with fine powder and create an image through the burning of the powder onto the paper. So back to the arguments, the following are the information you need to soundly choose between cheap bargain inks and expensive original toner:
1) Crisper and shinier images. This makes the toner suited for printing for business aside from personal use. You would not expect to bring in more customers and/or clients with brochures printed using ink and look as if they were made by amateurs. In contrast, no matter what design you have for your toner printed brochure, it will always look professionally done.
2) Prints that last and do not easily smudge. Because ink cartridges are filled with liquid with impressions created through spraying, they can smudge easily when they get wet. Prints using toner cartridges, on the other hand, are more resistant to wetting because of being burned. You would also notice that ink printed outputs fade with time whereas toner outputs look good as new.
3) Malfunctioning of the printer after long time use. Those that manufacture cheap inks are not as trained to handle cartridges as those that make expensive toner cartridges. The latter are accredited and have to obtain certification for them to work with toner cartridges.
There are also those that sell re-manufactured or reused toner cartridges. These are less expensive than the original toner cartridges but still produce prints with considerable quality. However, you will notice that with long time use, your printer tends to show prompts that you are out of toner and you need to replace the cartridge despite using a new re-manufactured toner cartridge.

Robots! They're Not Just for the Movies Anymore

Growing up I always thought of robots as the creations of evil villains, all dead set on the destruction of the world. Where would I get such an idea? That big, mysterious metal thing in The Day the Earth Stood Still kept me awake nights. Dr. Smith's silly robot on Lost in Space wanted to be good in spite of his creator's evil intentions. In the 1921 play R.U.R. (short for Rosum's Universal Robots) by Karl Capek, humanoid robots -- again, evil -- take over the world. Incidentally, playwright Kapek coined the word "robot," which in Czech means "forced labor."
You'll want to come back to that one.
Those were characters, the products of creative minds -- fictional robots. Today's non-fiction, real life robots are mostly not trying to take over the world, nor have they been created by Dr. Evils. Most recent developments in robotics have totally benevolent purposes. (I have taken the liberty of diverting you to sites of specific robotic information that I find interesting.
Coming up, Robbie, Rosie, Klaato, R2D2 and C3PO!
Real robots do simple household chores. Working alone or together with humans, they also build intricate machines like cars and computers. And you can sleep easier knowing that new robots keep a constant lookout for danger, while others venture into dangerous or hard to get to places where humans can't or shouldn't risk going. Today's robots are all intended for good works. Saving lives, improving quality of life, saving time, saving money, fighting our wars, cleaning our floors and having our coffee ready when we wake up.
Although pretty much all of the grainy black-and-white pot boilers of the 50s portrayed robots as humanoid and vicious, a popular TV show from that era - and a blockbuster movie that came along a few years later - changed how we think of robots. The movie was of course Star Wars, with R2D2 and C3PO leading the parade of metallic movie creatures designed to do good for mankind.
Although The Jetsons was born in the 50s, when it comes to seeing the future of robots, The Jetsons is the hands down winner. Since it's fiction, and a cartoon, the Jetson family robots have individual personalities and quirks, but they were still there to make life simpler - cleaning, cooking, clothing care, office work - like a dream that seems to be coming true.
You may ask: What exactly is a robot? The Merriam Webster Dictionary offers three basic definitions:
1. a. A machine that looks like a human being and performs various complex acts (such as walking or talking) of a human being; also. a similar but fictional machine whose lack of capacity for human emotions is often emphasized; b. an efficient insensitive person who functions automatically; (we all know at least one)
2. A device that automatically performs complicated and often repetitive tasks;
3. A mechanism guided by automatic controls.
However you choose to define a robot, you know they're here to stay when respected universities offer robotics as a field of study.
Each year, there are more robotics design and engineering programs opening at colleges, universities and even junior colleges.
The list of the top programs is impressive, with Cal Tech, Carnegie Mellon and Colombia leading the list.
So, with all these creative robot nerds emerging with big ideas, just exactly what does the future hold?
Inventor Ted Chavalas has a good track record for having his finger on the pulse of the technological present and a crystal ball into its future. His original Panoscan MK-1 digital panoramic camera was designed with an image size capacity too large to be opened by any but the largest computers that were around in 1997; and dial-up Internet cowered at the prospect of transporting those 500 megapixel images across the web (fortunately Broadband caught up with Chavalas). Now he is introducing The Ferret, through Panoscan's General Robotics division. This is from the company's 100-word publicity blurb:
The Ferret is a remotely controlled camera robot, designed specifically for under vehicle inspection. Low profile, circular design, and movable lights and camera, allow The Ferret to move under any vehicle - sports cars to big rigs, night or day, to "ferret" out explosives, contraband, critical damage or leaks. With an offset range of 300 meters, The Ferret is the ideal "first robot in" for a wide range of security and preventative maintenance inspections.