View from the Labs
Much has improved in the two decades that Simon has spent testing printers, but the testing process brings more frowns than smiles
Forgive the self-indulgence, but it’s 20 years since I first inserted a printer’s driver CD, connected its USB cable, and hit it with a suite of demanding tests. That sentence alone tells you quite how much has changed. These days there’s rarely a disc in the box – my test PC doesn’t even have an optical drive – and virtually every printer comes with some kind of network interface.