The Big Players : USB 3.0 Promotor Group Members
11/16/11 19:26 Filed in: USB 3.0 Manufacturers
SuperSpeed USB 3.0 brings significant performance enhancements to the ubiquitous USB standard, while remaining compatible with the billions of USB 1.1 and 2.0 enabled devices currently deployed in the market.
SuperSpeed USB will deliver up to 10x the data transfer rate of Hi-Speed USB, as well as improved power efficiency. The USB 3.0 specification was developed by the USB 3.0 Promoter Group which consists of Hewlett-Packard, Intel Corporation, Microsoft, Renesas Electronics, ST-Ericsson and Texas Instruments.
Expect Hewlett-Packard to be at the forefront of USB 3.0 enabled printer technology. In the laptop market they're already shipping Windows laptops with built-in USB3 ports. Clearly, HP isn't waiting around for Intel to deliver what the customer wants and needs today.
SuperSpeed USB will deliver up to 10x the data transfer rate of Hi-Speed USB, as well as improved power efficiency. The USB 3.0 specification was developed by the USB 3.0 Promoter Group which consists of Hewlett-Packard, Intel Corporation, Microsoft, Renesas Electronics, ST-Ericsson and Texas Instruments.
Expect Hewlett-Packard to be at the forefront of USB 3.0 enabled printer technology. In the laptop market they're already shipping Windows laptops with built-in USB3 ports. Clearly, HP isn't waiting around for Intel to deliver what the customer wants and needs today.
Why USB 3.0 For Printers? USB 2.0 Seems Good Enough
10/23/11 20:29 Filed in: USB3 Printing
The shift towards USB 3.0 SuperSpeed computer peripherals is underway. Some accessories are just aching to break past the speed limitations of USB 2.0 - most notably USB 3.0 Backup Drives which would provide immediate benefits for copying, transferring and backing up data in a fraction of the time it currently takes.
The printer market has a lot to gain as printers become USB3 compatible. The vast majority of home and business printing solutions sold these days are AIO - All-In-One multifunction devices. Many include SD-SDHC and soon SDXC card slots. As flash memory speeds increase beyond Class 10 speed cards, they'll soon hit the limits of USB 2.0. So for the many multifunction printers with built-in camera memory card slots - USB3 will let them perform to their peak ability.
The integrated scanners built into AIO printers will also benefit from USB 3.0 bandwidth. A decade ago, USB 1.1 was a real bottleneck for scanning: The scanning heads would pause, resume, pause, resume while waiting for USB 1.1 to buffer and transfer each batch of data to the computer before continuing with the scan. USB 2.0 made it possible for the scanner head to move continuously and cut scanning time down dramatically. USB 3.0 promises to make even ultra-high resolution scanning with massive amounts of data even faster.
Will printing be any faster with USB 3.0? It depends. At least the data will get sent to the printer faster than ever before. So the 'lag time' of initiating a print job will be minimized somewhat - especially for large-format printers and ultra-high resolution uncompressed images. Especially on lower-end printers, the mechanical parts still largely control print speeds - not it's USB serial interface.
Ultimately - as we're already seeing with USB 3.0 hard drives
- the meager cost differences of a USB 3 controller chip will be so trivial that building USB3 capable printers will simply be a no-brainer. And USB3's backward compatibility with legacy USB 2.0 and even 1.1 ports make any of those concerns a non-issue.
The printer market has a lot to gain as printers become USB3 compatible. The vast majority of home and business printing solutions sold these days are AIO - All-In-One multifunction devices. Many include SD-SDHC and soon SDXC card slots. As flash memory speeds increase beyond Class 10 speed cards, they'll soon hit the limits of USB 2.0. So for the many multifunction printers with built-in camera memory card slots - USB3 will let them perform to their peak ability.
The integrated scanners built into AIO printers will also benefit from USB 3.0 bandwidth. A decade ago, USB 1.1 was a real bottleneck for scanning: The scanning heads would pause, resume, pause, resume while waiting for USB 1.1 to buffer and transfer each batch of data to the computer before continuing with the scan. USB 2.0 made it possible for the scanner head to move continuously and cut scanning time down dramatically. USB 3.0 promises to make even ultra-high resolution scanning with massive amounts of data even faster.
Will printing be any faster with USB 3.0? It depends. At least the data will get sent to the printer faster than ever before. So the 'lag time' of initiating a print job will be minimized somewhat - especially for large-format printers and ultra-high resolution uncompressed images. Especially on lower-end printers, the mechanical parts still largely control print speeds - not it's USB serial interface.
Ultimately - as we're already seeing with USB 3.0 hard drives
- the meager cost differences of a USB 3 controller chip will be so trivial that building USB3 capable printers will simply be a no-brainer. And USB3's backward compatibility with legacy USB 2.0 and even 1.1 ports make any of those concerns a non-issue.SuperSpeed Interface USB 3.0 Printers
10/09/11 07:02 Filed in: USB 3.0 Printers
Welcome to www.usb3-printer.com - This next-generation Universal Serial Bus interface specification is poised to take computer performance to the next level. USB 3.0 and it's 5Gbps transfer speeds will open a door to unprecedented high-speed printing and scanning solutions. USB3 will unleash some of the potential still trapped in conventional USB2 printers, scanners, and All-In-One multifunction printing peripherals. Near instantaneous data transfer for print jobs is just the tip of the iceberg. Computer users will benefit from SuperSpeed printers and AIO periperhals for high-resolution high-DPI scanning, or even photo transfers from printers with built in USB 3.0 SD, SDHC, SDXC, MMC and Compact Flash card slots.
