A popular option in technology is to invest in a multifunction or all-in-one machine -- as opposed to dedicated machines -- that can handle printing, copying, scanning and faxing. Students, office ...

Multifunction printers, or MFPs, combine the capabilities of a printer, scanner, copier and a fax machine into a single piece of hardware. In their earliest incarnations, these devices sometimes ...

A company called AIO Robotics announced that it will be launching a Kickstarter campaign on September 4th to raise money for a 3D printer that also offers 3D “copying” (i.e., 3D scanning), and 3D ...

The future, as they say, is already here, but it’s just not very evenly distributed. To wit: the Zeus, a 3D printer that can scan and copy objects and, using the Internet, “fax” objects to other ...

3D printing might be awesome, but so far it's mostly been the realm of design geeks and passionate tinkerers. The Zeus from AIO Robotics seeks to merge 3D scanning and printing with the push-button ...

We have to confess a prejudice: Just as we cheered when affordable flatbed scanners shoved aside the crummy hand scanners used years ago, we’ve been glad to see flatbed designs largely replace ...

For all the wonders we've seen 3D printers extrude, traditional copy machines still have something to lord over products like the MakerBot Replicator: convenience. Users hoping to duplicate real world ...

Not all inkjet printers are bad. When my wife wanted a scanner to supplement her color laser, we got a Brother all-in-one inkjet printer. The high yield black ink cartridges are cheaper per page than ...

The printer often has a bad reputation — something that rarely works, or is always out of ink — often because of the complexity of commercial and office printers. But these at-home models should be ...