Need a fast Network Monochrome Laser Printer?

Lexmark has just made it easier to purchase their T652n Monochrome Laser Printer. This printer is normally $1,299 but this month they have lowered the price to just $899!

What a deal. So if you were thinking of getting a solid printer for your office this is a great product at a great price.

A little more about the Lexmark T652n Laser Printer…

High-Endurance Printing at Its Best: Simplify high-volume jobs with a fast-thinking powerhouse featuring robust monthly duty cycle, up to 50 ppm print speed, and generous input capacity (650 sheets standard, up to 4,300 sheets with options). Plus diverse media support and a rich selection of paper handling options to choose from.

Let It Decide the Best Speed: Identifies the size and complexity of your job and automatically calculates the optimal speed—quicker time-to-first-page for short jobs and more pages per minute for longer jobs.

Intelligent Job Waiting: No more letting missing media derail hours of print time. The innovative Job Waiting feature will simply hold that job aside, letting others go on working without interruption (requires the hard disk option).

Outstanding Print Quality: Combines true 1200 x 1200 dpi with automatic darkness adjustment and pixel-boosting technology to ensure high-quality, professional documents every time.

Cutting-Edge Security: From network security to user-access restrictions, you’ll be fully equipped to keep valuable data safe and sound. In addition to IPSec, SNMPv3 and 802.1x network security, the Lexmark T652dn offers an alphanumeric pad for easy PIN authentication, plus encryption and disk wiping to secure the optional hard disk.

Less Work for IT: Network-ready and very easy to set up, plus Universal Driver support for simple deployment. Includes Lexmark MarkVision™ Professional software for time-saving remote management and automated tools.

Multiple Uses for Camtasia Studio

I love my Camtasia Studio. If you have visited my Blog before you will have noticed some of the videos that I have posted to support my How To Video submissions. This is a great application for creating support videos for your organization as well as educational materials for employee’s or if you are an Educational Organization this is a great teaching aid for that as well. The retail cost of this product is $299.00, educational and volume discounts are available as well. It is available for both Windows and Mac. If you want to try it out you can download a trial version here.

Here are the recommended set of system specifications to get the most out of the product. Any current computer that is essentially purchased to work with graphics should be adequate but you will want to have a system with at least these specs to work with your development projects, especially if you are planning this system to be a production machine.

Minimum Requirements:

• Microsoft Windows XP, Windows Vista, or Windows 7
• Microsoft DirectX 9 or later version
• 1.0 GHz processor minimum ~ Recommended: 2.0 GHz (for PowerPoint and camera recordings.)
• 500 MB RAM minimum ~ Recommended: 2.0 GB
• 115 MB of hard-disk space for program installation

Optional Requirements:

• Camtasia Studio Add-in for PowerPoint requires PowerPoint 2000, 2002, 2003, or 2007
• Production to the Apple iPod/iPod Touch/iPhone format requires Apple QuickTime 7.2 or later
• Dedicated Windows-compatible sound card, microphone and speakers (recommended)
• Camera video recording requires a USB Camera. Digital video (DV) cameras are not supported. USB Web camera

The Nitty Gritty

Camtasia has three major functions that allow you to produce a video. Included is programming to capture image that is on your screen as well as PIP function to include a web camera recording as well. If you only need audio capture you also have that function as well. You can also do an onscreen capture of a PowerPoint presentation so that you can distribute a slide presentation as a video.

Camtasia Studio includes a simple video editing application that allows you to edit the recorded images, add additional video or still images, add new audio overlays and music, you can pan and zoom into areas of your screen capture to ensure that your audience is focusing on the information that is important.

Once you have your edited video production completed you are ready to produce it in a format that you can deliver to your audience. You have a wide choice of formats as well as some quick post functions to Internet like TechSmith’s Screencast, or YouTube. Then it is easy to incorporate the video once it is on the web into your web pages.

My Impressions

What I like is using this program for all of my video productions, whether it is something I capture with Jing (another TechSmith product) or video that I take with my new Flip Camera, I can create and edit and produce video for almost any kind of venue, quickly and easily. So if you have been thinking about putting together a library of videos showing the proper procedures for different company functions, needing to put together video promotional material for your customers or wanting to get your most current family outing edited a posted to YouTube for the family to see, this could very well be the product for you.