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Those letters on printer ink cartridges mean something — and ignoring them is costing you money

Those letters on printer ink cartridges mean something — and ignoring them is costing you money

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When it’s time to replace empty printer ink, most people follow a routine they know well. You go down the office supply aisle or find an online store, look for your printer brand, match the colors it needs, and usually pick the box with the lowest initial price. This is a mistake. If you only match the brand and color and don’t read the small print on the box, you’ll unknowingly pay much more over the life of your printer. Similar to how you need to check different things when buying a new printer, you need to check a few things before buying the cartridges. Related 9 Ways to Fix Microsoft Word Documents Not Printing Correctly Does your printer produce Microsoft Word documents with strange fonts, jumbled paragraphs, missing text, or almost nothing? Try these potential fixes. The true cost of your printer You’re not done when your printer is set up Jorge Aguilar / Make Use Of To understand these hidden costs, you need to know about page yield. This number is usually in …

EufyMake E1 UV Printer Review (2026): Add 3D Texture to Mugs, Magnets, and More

EufyMake E1 UV Printer Review (2026): Add 3D Texture to Mugs, Magnets, and More

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I’m mostly pleased with the EufyMake Studio software. If you aren’t already comfortable working in Photoshop or other image-editing software, you’ll want to spend a bit of time getting to know how layers and transparency work, as well as brushing up on dots per inch (dpi) and image types, assuming you’re going to print custom items. There’s a bit of trial and error involved in getting factors correct each time you change materials, but the presets for each are a good starting point. If you, like me, do have familiarity with editing software, you’ll find the interface intuitive. I haven’t run into any issues selecting and modifying multiple layers, adjusting opacity and print settings, or uploading my own imagery. Photograph: Brad Bourque If you’re not working from your own custom images, you can print straight from the shared content section of the app, which is divided into two sections: Projects and Designs. In the Projects tab, other E1 users upload photos of the items they’ve created, including custom keyboard keycaps, photo displays, keychains, and jewelry. …

Zuvi ColorBox Review: A Hair Dye Printer That Struggles

Zuvi ColorBox Review: A Hair Dye Printer That Struggles

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I will say that I think this product could be neat in a few scenarios. If you like to dye your own extensions, or you continually change the color of a streak and don’t need to buy oodles of full-size dye containers, or you’re a parent with kids that are always dip-dying their bleached ends, then it might make sense. And the resulting product does smell good. I also like the included container that lets you store leftover dye. If you’re specifically seeking washed-out, pastel tones, I still think you should just … get some hair dye and dilute it with conditioner. ScreenshotZuvi app via Louryn Strampe In the end, based on my assessment, the product fails to do its job. And even if this improves—even if eventually, you can get a black pigment to help darken the shades, or Zuvi moves from using primary colors to using cyan, magenta, and yellow, or the company starts making the process of bleaching your hair at home easier, or the use of generative AI stops and Zuvi …

My VPN was blocking my printer and Chromecast — and the fix took 10 seconds

My VPN was blocking my printer and Chromecast — and the fix took 10 seconds

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If you are someone who relies on a seamless home network, you expect your devices to work in sync. Your phone talks to your TV, your PC talks to your printer, and everything just works in a perfect rhythm, until one day it stops. You try to print your documents or cast your phone to a TV only to find that your printer and Chromecast are not showing up. You spend hours trying to troubleshoot the problem by restarting the router, reinstalling the drivers, and checking the hardware. You find that neither your Wi-Fi nor the hardware is broken, but the real culprit was the VPN app that you are using. Virtual Private Network, aka VPN, protects your online activities by masking your IP address by creating a secure tunnel. But in this pursuit, your VPN also walled off your local network. Here’s how you can fix it in a few seconds. Related Flip this one VPN setting and your speed might jump It’s surprising how much of a difference playing with this one VPN …

MIT’s New 3D Printer Can Print a Working Motor, Complete With Moving Parts

MIT’s New 3D Printer Can Print a Working Motor, Complete With Moving Parts

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Sign up to see the future, today Can’t-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech The tech behind 3D printing has come an extremely long way. The additive manufacturing technique, which generally involves depositing one layer at a time, has gone from relatively crude rapid prototyping in industrial settings to high-end fabrication of detailed parts in a growing list of fields, from medical implants to the construction of entire neighborhoods and rocket engines. Now, MIT researchers have devised new tech that can 3D print entire complex machines with moving parts in a matter of hours. As Gizmodo half-jokingly points out, it brings us one small step closer to being able to “steal a car” by downloading it from the internet, as suggested in the slogan of the much-derided anti-piracy ad from the early 2000s. The team came up with a retrofitted 3D printer, which features four separate extruders that can deposit a wide variety of printable materials, including magnetic and conductive ones, by squeezing them through a nozzle. The novel 3D printing platform …

Save 0 On Our Favorite Home Printer

Save $100 On Our Favorite Home Printer

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While testing printers usually isn’t that exciting, sometimes I find an offering that’s almost too good to be true. You can scoop up our favorite printer, the Epson ET-2980, from Best Buy for just $220, a $100 markdown from the usual price tag. You’ll get thousands of pages of excellent printing, and it could be years before you have to buy a refill. One of the most appealing features for any ink tank printer is the low cost to print. As I discussed in my review of the Epson, classic ink cartridges are generally expensive to replace, and manufacturers are increasingly looking for ways to keep you from using less expensive, and often less reliable, third-party cartridges. Ink in bottles is far harder to restrict, which means ink costs are often much lower per page. To that end, the Epson claims that the bottles included with the ET-2980 should last around 5,000 pages, and replacements are only about $50. Compare that with upwards of $100 for a set of cartridges that only print 1,000 pages …

Elegoo’s New 3D Printer Is the First Centauri With a Color System Attached

Elegoo’s New 3D Printer Is the First Centauri With a Color System Attached

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Elegoo makes some of the best 3D printers, including the budget models we’ve tested here at CNET. The Elegoo Centauri Carbon earned our pick for the best budget 3D printers, and the Elegoo Mars 4 and Saturn 4 earned top spots as the best starter and midsize resin 3D printers, respectively. This makes us particularly excited for the new Elegoo Carbon 2, which goes on sale next week. There are a lot of changes with the new 3D printer, despite a look that’s similar to the previous model. For starters, there’s a filament changer on the printer frame that supports up to four colors or materials per print. Elegoo says it has easy color switching, instant loading and automatic filament backup. The system also has an RFID auto-recongition feature, which identifies filament type and suggests the correct setting. “Even if the Centauri 2 is just the first Centauri with a color system attached, it’ll likely be worth the price of admission,” says James Bricknell, CNET managing editor and 3D printing expert. “I have it in my workshop, and …