Most everyone working with a computer these days, has at some point, needed to print something.
In schools, government as well as hospitals and clinics, the printed word even today does span the test of time. Literally and figuratively.
In today's world with the need to recycle, reuse and refill, getting the old toner out and replacing it with new is not simple, at least not anymore. In many states, spent toner cartridge would need to be collected cleaned refilled and returned for replacement the next time.
One obvious flaw in the whole toner recycling industry is: "... there is always toner left in over 90% of "empty" toner cartridges. That is a huge portion of the total waste that it would make a difference.
There's all the manipulation, storage facilities, and finally transfer. Not to mention loss of time as well as personnel.
What if we could eliminate the whole recycling thing and instead did not make waste in the first place.
Solid Ink technology does all that and it even saves you money also.
Less moving parts than conventional laser so you save there in less downtime.
solid ink let's you load up to 5 solid ink cartridge giving you the equivalent of printable pages. Solid ink comes with almost no packaging. And when the solid ink cube is consumed during printing next solid ink cube slides in.
Van’t get ink on your hands,
But the best part of this technology is the output. Simply vibrate deep colors that look more like there painted on the page instead of smeared over it as in the case of toner.
Xerox can even provide with a printer that will provide color printing for the price of black and white.
Less moving parts, fast output, and ease of use makes anyone printing just about anything look a great deal better at specially priced items.
If you have been looking for a better, more cost effective solution to all your printing needs then this techology deserves a look.
Check out the page with more details.
More on Soid Ink. (Click Here!)
Abd remember we have special prices. So give us a call.
Ncomputing makers of an ultra thin client, have once again updated their product line. New... Say hello to Wide screen support for their Thin Client product as well as full two way audio and enhanced USB ports. The other news worthy of mention is... these nComputing's Ultra Thin Client actually have a zero foot print. How is that possible you may ask... well... The units are so small they can actually now hang behind the monitor. Cables are orientated so that everything is neat and tidy and invisible. Ncomputing have also upped the resolution to 1280 * 1024. So is that enough to get people to give these Thin Clients a try, maybe. However it's really about security and deployment that makes Thin Client really interesting. They can go where desktop computers cannot and perhaps should not go. For example in a hospital environment they are great in the O.R. and E.R. because of their low power consumption and the fact there is no heat generated. Being a solid state device, it doesn't push air around. That's important in hospitals. Besides the obvious cost saving, Thin Clients go everwhere. PCs can't go everywhere. And at 4 watts of power used your saving more and more money the longer you use them.
Thin Clients give you remotely access to any Thin Client on your LAN / WAN from anywhere and manager the end users in real time. In education software run on the host comnuter gives the teacher the abilty to manager what appears on each childs screen. Using the display as each child's their own digital blackboard.
If you'd like more information or have questions and or comments please feel free giving me a shout or dropping an email. Thanks
Brian O'Connor
800 725-5468 x 8525 - BrianO@pcmallgov.com
SKYPE and MULTILINK
Okay, so I’m sure you know that there are quite a few free computer applications that provide the ability to speak to someone with a computer anywhere in the world. Most applications don't charge for calling computer to computer, however if you want to speak to someone on their Cell or home phone, you've got to pay for that privilege.
Well now there's an affordable way to speak with someone regardless of type of phone they use.
Say hello to SKYPE's all you can talk for 30 bucks a YEAR! You heard right!
What about Grandma!
If you want to call Granma and for the sake of agreement let's assume Grama isn’t computer literate. Now let's say you wanted to wish her a wonderful day, and you would need to be able to dial and ring all her four vintage circa '69, rotary phones. Well you'd most like have to drop that mouse and pick up one of Bell's inventions and begin paying and talking. Doing a long distance call to any cell or land line phone certainly hasn't been all that cheap, until that is now!
Say hello to SKYPE!
SKYPE made it's name in Europe and is advancing on North America at an incredible rate. Just yesterday at a Best Buy, I saw a number of cordless and corded phones acclaiming the virture of embedded SHKYPE(c) right in the phone.
MultiLink who make a number of SKYPE compatible products will be releasing a SKYPE standalone embedded SKPE internet access. All that means is that you simply plug the phone into a switch or router and voila, instant long distance. And if you have the little box that joins the SKYPE to your Local Lines,
Could a business actually use this technique within a school or hospital?
For that answer I went to MultiLink and asked them?
Embed response.
Think of the savings within a school if long distance charges could be eliminated or even reduced. It would also permit staff to attend more telecom-based lectures and conference calls without leaving the school and more importantly without breaking the budget.
Say hello to SKYPE!
SKYPE has a solution that permits you to actually buy time ... i.e. 30 bucks a year call anywhere talk as long you want, as long as you have high speed internet and a computer. Then using your computer, call anyone anywhere and start talking. And Gramdma does nothing different. Say “Hello Gramma.”
Say hello to MultiLink and their neat little gadget that can actually bridge together your current analog phone with SKYPE's Internet long distance service. It does it automatically by routeing local calls across your current analog lines, and long distance calls are directed across the SKYPE's long distance internet. And remember it's 30 bucks a year!
Your can use any phone on your lines. Even cordless will work. Cool roaming the backyard or office while speaking to China for example! The system can even direct inbound calls to the phones in your home or business.
It's the best of both worlds. It routes local and long distance, in bound and out bound, using the most economic method available. Best of all you do nothing.
Next UP the ALL-IN-ONE Phone!
Check out their All-in-one phone that does not require a computer to work. It have the OS embedded in it so all your do is plug the phone into the router or switch and your good to go!
Take a look at the product details and if you'd like more information, give me a shout!
brian
Hi and welcome to this installment of
Tech review
"Thin Clients".
Currently I am running 7 “evals” of the nComputing’s x300 and L “series”, Thin Client devices.
The trial lengths range from 30 to up to 60 days, however for only a few.
Early results coming in seem to indicate that for the most part, the devices are working great!
That being said however, when it doesn't work, it usually occurred with software that was manufactured prior to the current computer generations. Most of the time, these types of applications can be simply tuned, to run on this Thin Client, fairly easily.
In defense of this particular Thin Client, we have seen that it works quite well with most standard class applications. The few that experienced behavior problems are invited to contact nComputing or myself to arrange a FREE evaluation of the unit at no cost that will help see if a simple configuration change or two, can resolve the particular issue. Of course nComputing is also available for EVAL to anyone who would like to try one.
How easy…
Load software on HOST PC; “desktop or server”. It can do both.
Plug the Thin Client into your router or switch
You’re done.
Now I’m sure you knew to connect a mouse, keyboard and monitor to the Thin Client.
Restart your desktop/server and let the magic begin!!!
Once the server’s up, turn on your Thin Client and let it search your network.
It will come back with a list of servers available.
Click on the one you want, should be one server unless you loaded the software on another computer also. Powerful isn’t it. You can have more than one server. It’s easy to build in redundancy just install the service application on another computer.
I had setup a new User ID before rebooting, “yea I know I forgot to mention that, but it’s real easy to do, and I guess I forget those spicy details ... sorry will try to not do that again.”
UPDATE from the field!!!
The majority of users currently testing this Thin Client are; Hospitals.
They are also doing some really cool things with the technology..
For example…
Marty Cline: the IT director of a hospital in Nebraska
Solutions like thin clients are also great in patient rooms and common/shared areas. NComputing Ultra Thin Clients, are competly silent yet aways available instantly when you need it. It won't distrube the paitents or staff.
In addition to the abpve, these Thin Clients only draws around 4 watts of power. In todays' world, modern computers require aroiund 200 - 300 watts.
Think what you would save over the years in electricity alone, by simply switching to an Unltra line Thin Client..
And that's just for starters.
Supporting your “thin” clients.
Supporting this type of network is a lot easier than supporting a PC distributed network. Now when the IT person needs to make a change to someone's profile, they can begin without leaving their desk. The IT person can now handle just about everything, remotely. That makes things better.
nComputing also have software that allows the IT administrator or Teacher to take control of every Thin Client connected in the class. Now every one can watch my summer vacation slides you took last week. Isn't that wonderful?
I’m sure I 'm going to find a other great uses for this technology. so…
…stay tuned I’m on it!
Home / Office Thin Client:
Feature “nComputing”
Well yesterday I got the chance to put together my Thin Client from nComputing.
And after it was over I realized just how easy the whole thing was.
Everything just worked. And at this time I am typing this, using the Thin Client... I installed!
This is so cooolll!
I used my desktop "boclab01" computer featuring Windows XP Pro and a 2.8 Pentium 4 with 512 mb of RAM.
It all a matter of knowing the application requirements.
Anything that is screen intensive i.e. Movies and Games for example may not be a good fit for any Thin Client. However with that being said there are many applications in schools, hospitals and businesses, that find great value in hundreds and maybe thousands of applications. Of course the best fit for Thin Client's are applications that are data driven. Iin the case of Student lookup on secured network, patient records retrieval, Internet browsing, Office© applications and far too many to list here.
There are literally hundreds of thousands of business and home users looking for ways that can manger their tighter and tighter squeezed budgets. Thin clients could be a God send in the home also. If you have a home network, giving your children access to technology at a faction of the cost of a new computer is now available.
Install begins:
I setup my one client, I used a new 17 dollar keyboard and a mouse that I had laying around. I knew I would have to bite the bullet and buy a monitor for this project so I picked up the day before a 17" LCD monitor with onboard speakers.
In total it took maybe around 45 minutes.
And that was only because I actually took the time to read the manual.
The next thing I had to do was to install the Winterm service on my host "for thin client" computer. Luckily I picked up an "L" series and so I just connected the thin client to the network while the b"boclab01" computer was rebooting. And that's pretty munch it.
Make sure you are running with user names at least. Passwords are a political decision.
I bravely attempted to start the "Thin Client" by flipping it's switch. I showed my "boclab01" computer and I clicked select and I was there. I was being prompted for my ID. I entered and pressed "Enter" and I was in…. baby!!!
I decided to try playing some music. I wasn't surprised that the ncomputing Thin Client included a sound card. I luckily bought an LCD with speakers built in and then I just connect the two together. Then I selected music from my library and hooray... I had music. And this music was streaming to the client across my Network. Now to be truthful, the music began to get choppy. I switched the "visualizer" from the 3d earth from space, in High Def and to bars.
This time it worked perfectly. "Cool" I think I. So now I began browsing the internet. Even cooler..." I then opened Word and Publisher.
Believe it or not, everything just worked.
However....
... be careful with applications that are screen intensive. Applications like video players or video editors. These applications can flood your LAN with video frames at an alarming rate. This type of “Real Time” application live and die by their speed to the user, and therefore should not be considered for Thin Client, period.
However only a small faction of computers on the planet work like that. The vast majority of computer’s in the work place are, “Data Driven”. By “Data Driven” I simply mean, these type of computer’s provide things like customer information lookup, web browsing, any WORD© type applications and lot’s of other daily tasks. Typically a single desktop computer would be required for each position.
Now however you can deploy as many as 7 Thin Clients from that one desktop computer.
From the same computer that was originally reserved for just one single user.
Benfits: X300
The entry level product from nComputing’s array is called the X300. It uses it’s own wiring back into the desktop computer. The amazing thing here is that it’s priced at 89 dollars each.
89 dollars, that’s it huh! Well not quite.
You still have to buy a keyboard mouse and screen. But then again, wouldn’t you have to buy a monitor for any computer also? All in all this particular “Thin Client” gives you a unbelievable cost saving whether your providing new computer’s or maintaing the status quo, there isn’t anything out there that I can find that will permit you to shave over 80 off of project and still hit your delivery dates.
On time, under budget!
If you were to look at any another Thin Clients, you would have to pay somewhere around 300 dollars, plus the cost of keyboard, mouse and screen. Most other solutions demand a server right at the start. If you have one great however nCOmputer can run very nicely on a desktop computer as well as a server. But the cost effectivness to the desktop ncomputing solution would be to ensure…
Even if 300 dollars per seat has to be added to the cost of a Server, the nComputing solution still makes lots of sense.
The mythical disadvantage of the nComputing approach.
The X series is limited to 35 feet.
On the surface the 35 foot limit appears to be a touch limitation to live with. However, if you look at bit closer you would see that…you have a 225 square foot area to play with. The radius in square feet of the nComputing series X Thin Client.
Unless these happen to be really large office suites, the solution on the nComputing’s Thin Client readiness of the X300 in my opinion is valuable. There’s still nothing else out there that can save you that kind of coin while still providing all the services and resources you are obliged to deliver.
The Thirtfive Foot limit!
The 35 foot limit while at first gleam, could be seen as somewhat of a blessing also. What it does in fact is shield your entire LAN from any chatter by the “Thin Clients”. If you remember that these “Thin Clients” are sending all their screen refreshes as well as any audio content across their LAN to the Desktop computer. Since the X300 uses a proprietary wiring scheme, that’s wired directly back into the “Desktop” computer, the “Desktop” to “Thin Client” chatter is restricted to its own “private” Network. The Desktop computer only ever needs to make network requests when there is data retrieval to be done.
How far is fifteen feet, really?
Well firstly while your most certainly are restricted to 35 feet, remember that that’s only from the distance of the desktop computer that will be hosting the Thin Clients. In fact, you have a 360 degree radius around the Desktop computer. You could then deploy 6 additional “Thin Client’s” wired back to this desktop in that space.
And because the units produce no heat, take no space, putting them close together will not cramp anyones style.
And now that you’ve got a 7 to 1 ratio you could afford to upgrade the desktop Network card to perhaps a Gigabyte type add some extra RAM and harddisk witgh fairly large cache.
Now let's see how fast this Thin Client can fly now!
Single point from desktop to switch.
That’s it!
It’s at least 7 times better than a Desktop on every desk top.
Question: I want to use my existing LAN wiring.
Answer: I guess nComputing was listening because they also carry the “L“ series Thin Client.
For many the “L” series featuring limitless distance deployment virtually anywhere. Using you existing wiring you simply unplug the old stuff, and plug in the new stuff. The L series starts at around 189.
In my limited experience with the “L” series, I have learned a few things…
1) Load up the memory. When possible give each user at least 512 mb.
2) Get a fast hard drive. SATA type hard drive with lot’s of Cache.
3) Dual Core© Once you pass 4 Thin Clients, think about a Dual Core©.
If you are about to replace desktop computers and would like to maintain or augment what you deliver, this may be your first and best choice
Pick yours!
And since these Thin Clients come from the school system you get access to some pretty cool parental tools also.
For example: you can disable any Thin Cline on the network when it becomes time for bed. Or you can also send a message to all the Thin Client users or to specific users as to the arrival of the “sleeping bed time period.”
You can as administrator also watch Live any Thin Client on your network.
Maybe the most valuable reason for Thin Client is that, when the technology changes in two year and you need to replace all these computers, you won’t have to replace the Thin Clients. They will continue to work and benefit from a new faster Desktop computer.
So go ahead, take advantage of the best deal out there.
Is a Thin Client the right choice for you?
Give me a call for your EVAL and see for yourself.
800 625-5468 x 8525 or 514 373-8525
BrianO@PCMallGov.com or
http://www.boconnor.bravehost.com
Hello again.
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Covering your keyboards with a plastic cover as is being done in some ger free solutions, actually traps germs and bacteria underneath and helps it become a breeding ground for more and more unhealthy squatters. What do you do how do you get ride of them?
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It a nice way to provide an extra level of protection for your front line health professionals as well as those of the patients and staff!
These little add-ons could actually help save man days throughout the year. Expecially during the flu and cold season. Please feel free to contact me for more information on this or any of the 300,000 products we provide.
Not expensive and compatible with the New generation Thin Client like those form nComputing.
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Hello one and all!
I love the opportunity to investigate a lot of various types of computer solutions working here at PCMALL. Everyday somebody will ask about something I know nothing or wore, little about. I usually look for someone who knows a thing or two about the subject in question. If noone is around, I then use the internet, but you didn't here that here.
So what are we focusing on.
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