Looks like Epson isn’t willing to let HP take all the prizes… according to this press release found on Nudgit.com, Epson’s new range of business printers are aimed at businesses wanting a reliable and fast way to print high volumes of color prints. No more outsourcing of color brochures to external printers!

According to Epson, the new Epson B-300 and B-500DN are capable of printing color inkjet prints as affordably as other inkjet printers handle mono prints, which should open up a lot of potential for lowering costs in the workplace on those big color print jobs.

Disclaimer: The author, Amy Sage, is employed by MyInkPro.com.

While the inkjet vs. laser battle is hot in the home market, it's gearing up in the professional print shop market as well, according to this article over at AustralianIT.

Between the tremendously expensive offset presses, which operate by transferring an inked imaged from a plate onto paper, and the newer, cheaper Xerox laser printers, there hasn't been much room in the high volume market for inkjets, but that's soon to be changing as Kodak, HP and other printing manufacturers get ready to enter the field. The new inkjet presses displayed at the Drupa trade show this month will be somewhere in the midst of the field as far as initial cost goes, but at a cost per page of around a quarter of the Xerox laser printers, there's a lot of potential for the new inkjets to make a big impact in professional printing.

Disclosure: The author, Amy Sage, is employed by MyInkPro.com.

Looks like HP is getting into the swing of green with a new deal in California that allows California goverment agencies to upgrade to more energy efficient printers in return for recycling their inkjet cartridges. Essentially, every cartridge they return nets the agency two points, and enough points nets them a new printer. Sounds like a win all around, in that HP gets to melt down old inkjet cartridges and save money creating new ones, California gets a break on upgrading to more energy-efficient printers (saving the state up to 2 million dollars per year in energy costs, according to the article), and the climate gets... well... less energy used, which is a good thing.

Disclosure: Amy Sage is employed by MyInkPro.com.