Epson Australia has released another printer, the Stylus Pro 10600. This is a giant printer (up to 1,118 mm, according to the release, which rather spoils our chances of stacking it on our desk) and Epson claims it's the fastest in its class, at 20 square metres per hour in 360x360 dpi mode. We've never seen a printer measure speed in square metres before. At a slower print speed you can get 1440 x 720 dpi resolution, and the machine comes with 500 ml ink cartridges, which could come in handy. Epson have stated the Stylus Pro 10600 will be available in October.
SnapGear, a local security company, is moving into the embedded control market with the SE1100. Available by special order, the SE1100 is designed to provide secure control, monitoring and data logging capabilities in a compact single-board system. It's also embedded with Linux.
Gibraltar Software has released the Everguard System, a cross platform automated patch system-now deploying Linux patches! It claims to save sysadmins hours and hours and hours on installing patches, and offers a free 30 trial for 5 servers.
Epson Australia has also announced "the arrival of our new Stylus Photo printer line up for 2002". A little late in the year? Perhaps, but better late than never. There are four printers in the new line-up:
The AU$399 Stylus Photo 830 delivers 5760 optimised dpi resolution, and supports edge-to-edge BorderFree printing.
The AU$499 Stylus Photo 915 claims to deliver digital photo lab functionality in the home. It includes a memory card slot for the most popular memory cards in digital cameras, and has an LCD control pane.
Epson brags the AU$899 Stylus Photo 925 is the ultimate personal digital photo lab, with three memory card slots and a bonus LCD preview monitor (until November 30). It can also print directly from and store photos to USB powered Zip drives.
Finally, the professional's choice, the Stylus Photo 1290, for AU$1199. It prints A3 at 2880x720 dpi, with a six-colour ink system and a "raft" of other features. We couldn't find a link to this product, but if you're super serious about printing photos give your local Epson dealer a call to get the low-down.
Iomega has released Zip 750MB FireWire drive, the first that has FireWire support for Mac and Windows. The press release was big on how Zip drives are better than CD drives, but made no mention of up and coming competitor Memory Stick. The Zip 750MB FireWire drive goes for AU$469, and disks are AU$299 for 10 or AU$65 for two.
Kodak has released the new i200 Series Scanners, designed to handle more than 5,000 pages per day, and up to 50 pages per minute or 100 images per minute at 200 dpi. This series also contains the features found on the i800 series released last year, according to Kodak.
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