At about $450, it is the flagship of a line that includes two slower, cheaper printers, the Color 400 and 600, which I did not try.

These days, even the cheapest new printers can produce attractive greeting cards, brochures, presentations and photographs - but not on plain-vanilla, penny-a-sheet paper.

The technique has fallen from popularity since all cheap printers can easily print photographs, and a normal text file (or an e-mail message or Usenet posting) cannot represent overprinted text.

Each of the three partners invested £50 of their own money into the venture, and with the help of a small, discreet and cheap printer they got to work.

I.B.M. dramatically improved its manufacturing skills by building a cheaper low-end printer to go with its PC's.

Like the printer market making cheap printers and profit on the ink.

And God help you if an A-list blogger finds out that your premium printer is identical to the cheap printer, with the speed inhibitor turned off.

Even cheap printers have a resolution much higher than that of a screen.

The price had been reduced to 1/6 with the third issue, but with paper costs rising Nova looked for a cheaper printer.

Its attempts to go digital did not meet with success and moves into new areas including pharmaceuticals, cheap printers and medical testing have not paid off.