The Ink Blog - Printer and Cartridge News and Reviews

February 2007


Amazon has a deal going on where if you purchase a select Canon digital camera, you can get a free PIXMA iP6210D printer. Right now that printer is selling for $60, so it’s not a bad deal if you are in the market for a new digital camera. When you purchase the camera, you enter the coupon code MKS27AHD at checkout to get the free printer.
One of the best deals for a camera is the Canon PowerShot A540. It’s a 6MP camera that’s currently $170 and it has very good feedback from Amazon customers. It’s also the cheapest camera that’s part of this promotion.

A company called Zink wants to release a printer that doesn’t use ink. Together with Polaroid, they have developed tiny printers that can print pictures without the use of ink cartridges. Basically, the printers use a special kind of paper with different layers, all of which react differently to heat. So you heat the layers differently and they each either turn to red, blue or yellow. Since there are no cartridges, the printers could theoretically be as small as they want to make them. The downside to this technology is that the special paper that the printer uses is very expensive – Zink wants to charge $20 for 100 sheets of paper.