Early this week, HP publicly displayed more than a dozen of new printers especially targeted to the consumers and the small businesses at its annual Imaging and Printing Conference held at Shanghai. Among all the other printers, there was one which is believed to be scanning in seemingly 3D form. Apart from the other conventional multifunction features, this printer, namely TopShot Laser Jet Pro M275 also offers an arm like camera placed on the top of the scanning bed that has the ability to rise over any object and click six pictures of it from various angles, out of which the three images are taken with flash whereas the other three are with ambient light.

As soon as the scanning process gets completed, there is an automatic assembling of all those shots into one seamless picture free from glare and shadow, which appear quite similar to 3D, even if it is not exactly a one. However, you need to note that the scanner doesn’t have the ability to produce 3D models, though it gives really high quality 2D image of the 3D objects.

It is notable that this particular functionality is not yet been found to be offered with any other multifunction devices. This has the potential of proving it a useful device for the leisure time photographers and the businesses involved in photograph. For example, eBayers is one such company.

Laser Jet Pro M275, along with its TopShot technology, also offers access to applications relevant for printers. This is believed to have sprung out of the work that the company did on webOS, but since the project has been brought to a standstill, HP is found to be avoiding talking about the mobile operating system in the video introduction part of the TopShot printer.

It is not properly known how much more the company will be supporting the printers’ software aspect with the running of webOS. However, it is undeniable that Laser Jet Pro M275 offering some of the most interesting applications.

All these wonderful applications add lots of colors to your handling of the Laser Jet. So, you can automatically upload TopShot images with the one and scanned content with the other, there’s yet another that lets you scrape contact details from the scanned business cards, and again there’s an app that enables you to schedule pickups from your printer.

You’ll be able to buy the TopShot all-in-one at $400, pretty soon.

Epson is coming up with a printer with hefty cartridges, more explicit print head and numerous paper options…

You can get hold of a really less number of lab prints for $499, the price of new 13 inch inkjet printer from Epson. However, in order to have total control over your images, the only best way is to have it done at home.

You will find some printing features with R2000 most of which are especially meant for higher end pro models, out of which the most eminent one is the comprisal of the pigment based Ultra Chrome Hi Gloss 2 inks in 8 colors. It also has the ability to work well with adequately broad range of media that include roll paper, fine art paper, canvas, and CD/DVDs.

One big feature about which Epson is boasting in the press is that it has used the latest AccuPhoto HG Image Technology designed in collaboration with Rochester Institute of Technology’s Munsell Color Science Laboratory. Epson asserts that this new technology increases the precision of the ink droplet placement which results in making the prints have smoother tones as well as less grain.

The device dispenses ink through Epson’s MicroPiezo AMC print head which offers a maximum possible resolution of 5670×1440 with smallest possible droplet of 1.5 picoliters. Again, since the ink cartridges are larger so the number of prints delivered by the device is 50% more before the cartridges are finally changed.

Some of the other important features offered by the device include its ability to automatically choose from Photo and Matte black ink in order to produce the best shadow details and three connection interfaces that are namely – Wi-Fi (802.11n), USB 2.0 and 100 Mbit Ethernet. Epson will be making it available some later this month.

HP has made it possible to print anything from anywhere as it has just announced that its Web-connected and Cloud-aware printers meant for home and business use are the first of the printers to support Google Cloud Print (a service from Google that allows printing via the interwebs) right out of the box. It will be possible for the HP ePrint enabled printer users to directly print from Google Cloud Print as well as from the applications supporting it installed on any computer or smartphones using the printer.

To start using it, users will just have to add their unique email IDs of the HP ePrint enabled Officejet, LaserJet Pro, or Photosmart to their Google account. Google Cloud Print combined with HP ePrint printers helps you print from any the web, mobile, and even the desktop applications supporting the Google Cloud Print easier, more accessible, spontaneous, and useful as it doesn’t require you to connect the PC to the printer nor it needs any print drivers.

Google Cloud Print supporting apps presently comprises of Gmail for Mobile, Google Docs for Mobile, Chrome Notebooks, and even a third party Android app as well as , Chrome extension j, and a Firefox add-on. And the list is very likely to expand by including lot many third party apps soon.

Cloud printing can be done with any printer connected to a PC, but the printing experience becomes sleeker, and more up to date if one gets to print directly using a cloud ready printer. Thus, HP’s first generation cloud-ready printers are going to work well and will also prove beneficial for Google, as the competitors of HP will soon follow its trail.

Senior Vice President of Printing and Imaging Group of HP, Stephen Nigro told in statement that HP’s topmost priority is to make it easy for the customers to print anything from anywhere and customers will get the best printing experience using HP’s ePrint and Cloud-Aware printer when printing through Google Cloud Print.