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Apologies for the blank blog but there is maintenance work going on in Pixie. Normal viewing will resume shortly. In the meantime you could have a look at the many great blogs on my blogroll.
While we wait lets slop in some mud – from the National Ploughing Championships and from a future post 
The club outing planned for this coming Saturday has being cancelled because of bad weather.
A great meeting was held last Monday night and we had seven new members join us”Karen O’Regan,John O’Sullivan,Tim Coughlan,Angela Coughlan,Austin Heffernan,Mark Heffernan and Bill Power,a very big welcome and we hope you all have an enjoyable time with the Mallow Camera Club.
International competitions were also explained,they are called Salons,if you found this interesting please go to the following site ”http://webplaza.pt.lu/public/suyswill/M2010.htm”.Here you will find a full list of these Salons.Any problems ,please contact me at ” morganjoneill@yahoo.ie ”
Mallow Camera Club is on Facebook, if you have a bit of news or a question to ask or just simply to see whats going on around you might like to join.
Another photograph from the Blue Mosque while I was in Istanbul. I was thrilled to have managed to get this photo of a single person sitting down studying a guide book, considering there were thousands of people at the mosque.
A grey Day... 30.09.2010
This day last week I had the pleasure of being invited to Istanbul, to attend a press briefing about new innovations being released by HP.
Obviously since I take photographs and do occasionally print, this was something I was very interested in. On arrival to Istanbul I was brought over to the hotel where the main event was taking place. Here we all learnt what HP had in store for us and honestly I can say hand on heart it is very impressive stuff altogether.
My market would be the consumer market and we were shown the HP ENVY100 e-All-in-One which is a sleek, slim-line printer,best way to describe it would be it kinda looked like a VHS or DVD player, We were told that this was to complement modern home décor. It features a high-resolution touchscreen display, is incredibly quiet and has a really cool automatic paper tray (this has to be seen to understand, think robots). The ENERGY STAR qualified HP ENVY100 e-All-in-One is the planet’s first PVC-free printer and is expected to be available in selected countries next month for €249.
The main thing pushed by HP is connectivity to the web, thus allowing you to print from anywhere you like, even from Mobile phones! You can browse the web on some selected models, you have apps for connecting to RSS feeds, google and the like. This stuff blew me away. Basically HP have set up ePrint which is also known as HP’s cloud! For anyone not aware of Cloud technology one way to describe it is that its a virtual server in the sky. As an example imagine this, you are out and about and you take a photo on your mobile phone well you can email that image to a recipient or now with HP, email it to the printer directly! so if you wanted to send a photo or document somewhere you can, but not only that, have it printed too! It really is that easy.
One question that did come up while I was there on my twitter stream was, what about the cost of ink? which for me as a consumer would be a very valid point and one of the main reasons I would not print as much as I would like. Unfortunately even though these new amazing printers are very affordable, which is something HP are very keen to announce, will people be interested in printing more if the ink is still at crazy prices. I was informed that those prices remain as they are. Well for me, who would not be printing out documents and things, but more so photos, thus using lots of ink, this was a bit of a let down for me.
This aside I really want to thank the fantastic team in HP for a wonderful insight into all things HP and for taking such good care of me while in Istanbul, but the biggest thank you must go to Donnchadh here in Ireland for getting in touch with me in the first place, I really appreciate it.
There is so much more to tell about this trip and I will do so over the course of the next few days, but back to this image. Well on Thursday myself and 2 others went to visit the city itself and we went to the blue mosque which is what you can see here. We did not go in since the queues were so long and we were on a tight schedule, but I must say the exterior was impressive.
If you have any questions though about the new HP range, please comment and I will try to answer them as best I can.
More photos from Istanbul to follow.
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