Consumer Technology

Epson Launches Low Cost Per Page Inkjet Printers, For India

July 23, 2011 by Raj Agrawal Leave a Comment

The revolutionary printers from Epson are built with world’s first integrated ink tank system that guarantees a drastic improvement in cost efficiency per page prints which no printer could offer otherwise. Designed especially for India, the printers output 10 paise per page for mono prints, while 20 paise per page for colored ones.

Being an Indian resident and an avid printer user, I very well understand with how maintaining and managing printers can prove to be a costly affair. With the uncertainty of hardware, quality and high cost per prints, it becomes really expensive to deal with. I’m referring to the low – moderately priced printers that most home, office and stationary stores have been using. There are many other issues related with the conventional printers, but this is not what this post is about.

The newly introduced L100 and L200 printer models, powered by the Epson Micro Piezo promise detailed and seamless gradations on photographs prints.

The Selling Point

The printer pack comes with a set of a single black 70ml ink bottle capable of printing 4000 black pages and three 70ml color ink cartridges that can print 6500 color pages. The Inks stay fresh up to 2 years if the ink re-fill bottles aren’t opened, otherwise they last for 8 months. This means, the usual complains of printer inks drying won’t happen in these printers, at least up-to 8 months of usage. Also, the common ink leakage factor has been taken care of with embedding choke valves onto the printer mechanism.

Features

Features	Epson L100 printer	Epson L200 all-in-one
Print Resolution	5760 X 1440 dpi (with Variable-Sized Droplet Technology)
Print Speed(draft mode)	Black text: 27 pages per minute / Colour text: 15 pages per minute
Copy Resolution	Not applicable	360 X 360 dpi (with VSDT)
Copy Speed	Black text: 11 sec per copy on draft mode Colour text: 38 sec per copy on draft mode
Scan optical Resolution	600 dpi
Scanning Speed	Monochrome (300 dpi) – 4 msec/line Colour (600 dpi) –15 msec/line
Operating System Compatibility	Windows^® XP / XP Professional x 64 Edition/ Vista™/7 Apple Mac OS^® 10.4.11 or later
Printer Interface	USB 2.0
Special features	Epson FIT technology featuring Epson Original Ink Tanks
Price and availability	Rs. 8999/- , available immediately	IDR 10,999/-, available immediately

Warranty

Epson offers warranty for 1 year or for 15,000 page prints, whichever reaches the check point first.

Sony Aims To Win The Masses With It’s New VAIO Line-ups

July 17, 2011 by Raj Agrawal Leave a Comment

Sony plans to double the sales of VAIO notebooks this 2011 with it’s comprehensive line-ups. VAIOs are now available in 62 model variants, pricing from Rs. 25,000 to Rs. 1,30,000.

There was a time when buying a VAIO notebook in India meant an expensive deal. With Sony’s recent efforts to target almost every segment in the Indian market with it’s extensive range of VAIOs, the affordability factor has been taken good care of. Sony has invested Rs. 50 crore to bringing out VAIOs for each consumer segment and aims to increment its share from previously 15% to 20% this year. Have a look at what the new VAIO line ups serve,

VAIO S

Comes with a flat body and a slim design. Sony recommends it for business meetings and outdoor usage due to it’s long battery life.

Price: Rs. 47,990 to Rs. 1,29,000.

VAIO C

Bears a full HD screen and high-performing graphics. Its designed for fashion conscious consumers and is available in 6 colors.

Price: Rs. 54,990 – Rs. 69,990.

VAIO E

Suitable for students and professions for day-to-day activities like checking/sending e-mails, organizing photos and documents, e.t.c.

Price: Rs. 27,990 and above.

VAIO Y

This is the cheapest among all the VAIOs listed here. The VAIO Y is recommended for casual users and beginners.

Price: Rs. 24,990 and above.

Free Remote Diagnostics

With Sony’s aggressive attempt to conquer the main stream consumer market, the VAIO consumers will get continued access to free remote diagnostics service, even after the warranty expires. This means the users can get their ‘software based’ issues fixed/ checked for free by a remotely located technician via internet on any day.

At a recent prees conference in Mumbai, Mr. Masaru Tamagawa, the Managing Director of Sony India seemed confident with Sony’s new campaign and it’s plans to compete with Dell and HP.

Visit Sony’s official website to compare and chose the right VAIO.

Nvidia Announces GeForce GTX 580M, World’s Fastest GPU Till Date

June 29, 2011 by Raj Agrawal Leave a Comment

The GPU is set to launch by mid July in India with the Alienware M17x notebook.

Nvidia braggingly claims their newest GeForce GTX 580M GPUs to be the fastest Microsoft DirectX11 notebook GPUs in the market, promises to delvier up to six times the tessellation performance of any other notebook GPUs. The GPU performs up to 20% better performance per watt, as benchmarked with Microsoft DX11 DSub11.

Alienware M17x red grey — Alienware M17x Notebook

The Alienware GTX 580M is promised to sail up to five hours of battery life while browsing through Facebook, and flow 100 FPS while running Call of Duty: Black Ops.

Nvidia also introduced GTX 570 GPU along with the GTX 580. The comparison specs are listed below.