Often, you will also need to reset the drum counter manually. Besides its effect on the counters themselves, this simple process informs your printer that a new drum was installed and allows it to recognize the new cartridge unit.

Check your printer’s users guide for this function.

To use it, download the HP iPrint Photo free application from your Apple’s App Store to your iPhone/iPod Touch. Then simply click on the iPrint icon, select the photo to print from your photo album, and choose the Print option at the bottom of the screen.

The software leverages Apple’s Bonjour technology to automatically locate the networked inkjet printers connected to your local WiFi and the wireless HP printers on your network. Choose your printer and that’s it.

You should now be printing your photo in 4″x6″ format.

Skype’s default installation includes extensions for Microsoft Internet Explorer and for Mozilla Firefox. To disable these extensions:
1. Open your web browser
2. On the toolbar, click the icon to turn off the Skype Add-on/Extension icon as shown here: http://www.skype.com/intl/en/help/guides/ie_addon/

Alternatively, you can uninstall Skype from your computer and reinstall it checking off these two extensions after clicking on the Options button before launching the installation:
- Install Skype extension for Mozilla Firefox
- Install Skype add-on for Internet Explorer

Either one of these two solutions will allow you to view your phone numbers the way you did before installing Skype, while enjoying the benefits of this great service.

Users will now be able to choose whether to share their browsing and searching information and to know how it is used.

InPrivate Browsing and InPrivate Blocking settings will allow users to prevent the browser from saving any search or browsing history at all and also to automatically delete such data at the end of each session.

Users will also be able to disable saving of all off-line data including cookies, passwords, and form data.

More information on these and other new features is available when you visit Microsoft.

Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 is currently in Beta 2 release and is due out in the next few weeks.

- Decide whether you need the images on the page to print. If you don’t, uncheck the ‘Print Background Colors and Images’ option in Tools>Internet Options>Advanced.
- Confirm your Page Setup options. Edit or remove header and footer information based on your needs and preferences.
- Select File>Print.
- To prevent uncessary pages from printing, select a range of pages. When applicable, highlight the section of the internet page that you would like to print, and check the Print Selection box.
- Use the Print Preview feature to see what your printout will look like.
- Click Preferences/Properties and select Paper Quality, Paper Size, and Print Quality.

Finally, when you run out of printer supplies, visit SuppliesUSA.com.

Compaq:
Acquired by HP. Original printer consumables manufactured by TallyGenicom. TallyGenicom now part of Printronix.

Copystar:
A Kyocera-Mita company

DEC:
Aquired by Compaq before Compaq was acquired by HP. Original printer consumables manufactured by TallyGenicom. TallyGenicom now part of Printronix.

Exabyte:
Part of Tanberg Data

Genicom:
Part of TallyGenicom. TallyGenicom now part of Printronix.

Gestetner:
A Ricoh company

HP:
Parent company of Compaq

Imation:
Parent company of Memorex and TDK

Infocus:
Parent company of Proxima

Konica:
Now part of Konica-Minolta

Konica-Minolta:
Parent company of QMS

Kyocera:
Now part of Kyocera-Mita

Kyocera-Mita:
Parent company of Copystar

Lanier:
Now part of Ricoh

Memorex:
An Imation company

Minolta:
Now part of Konica-Minolta

Mita:
Now part of Kyocera-Mita

Printronix:
Parent company of TallyGenicom.

Proxima:
Acquired by Infocus

QMS:
Acquired by Minolta before Minolta became part of Konica-Minolta

Ricoh:
Parent company of Gestetner, Lanier, and Savin

Savin:
A Ricoh company

Tally:
Part of TallyGenicom. TallyGenicom now part of Printronix.

TallyGenicom:
Also manufactures original supplies for legacy Tally, Genicom, Compaq, DEC, and TI printers. TallyGenicom now part of Printronix.

Tanberg Data:
Parent company of Exabyte

TDK:
Data Supplies division acquired by Imation

Tektronix:
Printer division (Phaser line) acquired by Xerox; supplies now listed under Xerox brand.

TI:
Original consumables manufactured by TallyGenicom. TallyGenicom now part of Printronix.

Updated 12/2009.

These yields are important to accurately calculate costs per page and to compare brands when evaluating printers, copiers, or even fax machines.

However, manufacturers can each decide the method and the environment to run those tests, so the results are not as reliable as they should be.

In December 2006, the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) approved new standards for ink and color toner cartridge yield measurements. A standard for black toner cartridges was already published in June 2004 and endorsed by companies like HP, Lexmark, Canon, and Epson.

The new standard defines a uniform methodology to measure these yields:
- 9 cartridges will be used for the test. They must have different manufacturing dates, come from different locations, and be used until empty.
- A minimum of 3 different cartridges are tested on a minimum of 3 different printers to reduce printer-based variability.
- Printer default settings are set.
- A standard PDF document suite is used.
- The paper size must be 8.5”x11” (letter size) or A4.
- The environment is kept at a controlled temperature.
- The reported yield must be at, or below, 90% of the mean.

We hope this standard is promptly applied by all toner manufacturers. Consumers will benefit from this long overdue transparence.

To control supplies costs, companies changing data storage formats sometimes consider selling their old data tapes instead of destroying them. At the same time, others consider buying recertified data cartridges instead of new ones. SuppliesUSA recommends against both practices.

Companies selling their used data cartridges might expose internal data. Indeed, degaussing data tapes is not an exact science. For example, not all degaussers erase data on all data formats. Different formats require different magnetic field strength to actually erase the data. Post-degaussing audits are often telling. Imation Corporation documented several audit cases where they found data on tapes that large organizations were about to resell, this after established recertifiers had degaussed the tapes. Also, some new formats tapes like LTO and others run the risk of becoming useless if the servo track is erased during the degaussing.

From the buyers perspective, recertified data tapes don’t offer the peace of mind companies need for their critical backup storage media. There is no way to determine the environmental factors the cartridges already endured, or how past mishandling might have affected the cartridge’s integrity, or the useful life remaining. Abnormal stress, debris, damage, all affect a data cartridge and recertifying it does not remove any of these factors.

Companies left with data cartridges to be retired should degauss and securely destroy the cartridges. Companies buying data tapes should always buy new ones, even if, to adhere to a low budget, they have to buy fewer tapes. Your data is your business, and it must stay that way.