Other than manufacturing desktops and laptop notebooks HP is also a global leader in computer peripheral manufacturing. The most important of the peripheral devices are the printers. Hp introduced a combo of all in one office jet printer that includes printer, copier, scanner and fax that are required for main office activities. The office jet 5610 is an efficient and high quality model in the HP printers. The printer uses a six ink color. The fax machine has a great feature to stop the reception of unwanted fax message. For this it uses a technology called “junk fax barrier”. The scanner uses a glass top scanning surface and uses a technology called flat bed scanning system. It is a 4800 dpi printer with twenty five pages document feeder.

The speed of the device is different for all the functions it performs. The printer speed depends on the quality of the print that is needed and also depends on the color of the print. A normal black print cartridge can print up to 20 pages per minute while the color print speed is 4.3 pages per minute. The fax machine has a modem speed of 33 kilo bits per seconds and it can send up to 3.3 pages of facsimile transmission per minute. The memory of the fax machine is around hundred A4 pages. The scanning system has a optical scanning resolution of 1200 dpi and the technology is the flat bed technology in a glass scan surface. The device costs around nine thousand Indian rupees.

Web camera is the device that is helpful in video conferencing and in the monitoring activities for the surveillance department. Apart from those uses, it is mainly used for the personal purposes in the computers. In laptops the web camera comes integrated. I-Ball is one manufacturer like the Compaq, HP, Intex etc. in the field of web camera. The model to be discussed here is the face2face web camera. The i-ball is a 2 mega pixel camera with interpolated resolution. The angle of the lenses is wide in nature. The device comes with six auto lighting LED’s for night usage. It has a light sensor that can detect the amount of light needed by the camera. Video capturing is also a good experience with this camera, since it has 1280 x 1024 pixel resolution.

The two main important features present in the face2face web camera is the integrated microphone and the auto face tracking function. The auto tracking tracks the face for capturing. The in built micro phone is a high sensitive device. The device uses USB 2.0 interface for interfacing it with the personal computer. The camera has a 4X zoom with digital clarity and auto focus as explained above. The device uses another higher technology for image sensor. It uses CMOS image sensor and it can focus up to infinity. White balance and exposure features are automatic in the IBall face2 face camera. This device is priced around one thousand two hundred Indian rupees and it carries one year warranty.