In the last 20 years, green lasers have shrunk from table-size lab equipment to pocket-portable presentation tools (not to mention cat toys). But making laser pointers a household item may have come ...

Until the mid-'90s, if you wanted to print something in color, you had to use an ink jet printer. Laser was for black and white only. Then in 1994, QMS came out with a color laser printer but it was ...

Not long ago, color laser printers were slow, balky, very expensive beasts. Only highly trained professionals could change their consumables, and they needed to live in a climate-controlled room to ...

Just about every inkjet printer manufacturer—including HP—talks about how inkjets are more cost effective than laser printers. And yet HP offers color laser printers like the Color Laserjet Pro 452dw.

At its introduction in 1993, the first color laser printer on the market carried a $12,500 price tag. Its early competitors still could cause sticker shock at and above $6,000, compared to monochrome ...