colour

Apple iPod (20GB, colour) preview

Reviews Apple has announced a new £209 20GB iPod with a colour screen to replace the noncolour version. Apple has also added a colour screen to the black-and-red 20GB iPod U2 Special Edition and has dropped its price to £229.

Tags: apple, models, colour, itunes

1 July 2005, 17:24

Dell Colour Laser Printer 3110cn review

Reviews It's approximately 400mm by 470mm by 485mm and resembles a fat, half-height dustbin, though its black and gunmetal colour scheme is a definite improvement on the plethora of beige printers we've seen over the years.

Editor's rating   8.2

Tags: dell, cable, printers, colour

19 October 2006, 18:25

colour balance

Reviews Colour balance refers to the relative strength of the signal from each of the three guns. Many monitors provide colour-adjustment controls that allow you to adjust the colour balance. A CRT monitor uses three electron guns (red, green, and blue) to...

20 December 2006, 16:18

Budget A4 colour printers

Reviews Buying a colour printer is made exceptionally difficult because of the sheer number of options. A printer that uses six unique inks (cyan, magenta, yellow, light cyan, light magenta and black) will produce far better colour photos than a printer...

18 August 2006, 15:39

selectable colour temperature

Reviews Large-screen TV feature, especially in a high-end set, that allows the adjustment of the colour temperature.

3 January 2007, 9:53

Lexmark X502n colour laser multifunction review

Reviews A colour laser multifunction aimed squarely at small offices and work groups, the £410 Lexmark X502n prints, scans, copies and faxes, and does it all quickly and to a high standard. Colour graphics With colour printing, it was still the fastest of...

Editor's rating   7.4

Tags: scanning, fax, handling, patterns

9 July 2007, 10:00

Xerox Phaser 8500N review

Reviews The Xerox Phaser 8500N has nearly everything a colour business printer should, including speed, solid network handling and add-ons for paper capacity and memory. It competes with small-office colour lasers at less than £500, but it's technically...

Editor's rating   7.2

Tags: xerox, jobs, blocks, tab

22 November 2005, 16:59

HP Color LaserJet 2600n review

Reviews If you've decided you can't afford a colour laser printer, reconsider: the HP Color LaserJet 2600n costs only £250 with built-in Ethernet networkability. Colour graphics Colour text Colour graphics printed at a more reasonable 6.3ppm.

Editor's rating   5.8

Tags: hp, colours, panel, colour

21 July 2005, 13:33

Lexmark C530dn review

Reviews The Lexmark C530dn is a fast, high-quality colour laser printer that we recommend for any small office or home with high-volume printing needs. The C530dn ships with starter 1,500-page black and colour cartridges, while the C532n and C532dn models...

Editor's rating   8.1

Tags: lexmark, return, printers, cross

3 January 2007, 15:37

rainbow effect

Reviews A visual artefact that occurs in single-chip DLP displays, caused by the fact that the single DLP chip uses a colour wheel to create red, green and blue, and hence all colours. The occurrence of these rainbows has been significantly reduced with...

3 January 2007, 9:12

LaCie 321 review

Reviews It also offers a choice of six colour-temperature presets, from quite cool to rather warm Kelvin ratings: 9,300, 8,200, 7,500, 6,500 (sRGB) and 5,000. The display's excellent colour fidelity, high brightness and generous viewing angles dazzled us...

Editor's rating   8

Tags: lacie, response, colours, brightness

14 February 2005, 23:00

convergence (monitors)

Reviews Colour CRTs rely on three separate electrical beams to project simultaneous red, green and blue images -- these combine to form a full-colour image. If these beams are not precisely aligned, the red, green and blue portions of the image may not...

20 December 2006, 16:56

JPEG (Joint Photographic Experts Group)

Reviews A format developed by the Joint Photographic Experts Group for storing and compressing high-quality colour and greyscale images (.jpg file extension). You can choose how much to compress a JPEG file, but the smaller you make it, the more colour...

21 December 2006, 11:17

alpha channel

Reviews In computer graphics, each pixel has three channels of colour information -- red, green, and blue -- in various bit depths. With 24-bit graphics, there are 8 bits per colour per pixel. With 32-bit graphics, the additional 8 bits are used as an...

20 December 2006, 12:17

greyscale

Reviews Since colour information is overlaid atop black-and-white information in a composite, S-Video and component-video signal, the ideal is to set the entire range of the greyscale as close to the standard of 6,500K as possible to preserve colour...

21 December 2006, 10:25