saco-indonesia.com, Dipercaya atau tidak, warna adalah salah satu yang dapat membuat emosi dan kinerja manusia menjadi baik. Untuk itu, Canon telah mempersembahkan produk printer yaitu PIXMA MC7170 dengan beragam warna.

Sekarang ini, mayoritas printer yang telah beredar di pasaran hanya telah memiliki warna yang sudah digunakan oleh banyak perusahaan produsen mesin cetak lainnya, seperti hitam, putih atau abu-abu.

Melalui Datascrip sebagai authorized distributor-nya di Indonesia, Canon telah menghadirkan PIXMA MG7170, printer foto All in One (AIO) dengan 3 pilihan warna elegan dan menarik, yaitu coklat, merah dan hitam.

Selain bervariasi dari sisi warna tampilan yang colourful, penggunanya juga dapat dengan mudah mengoperasikannya, apalagi dengan dukungan teknologi nirkabel di dalamnya.

Dilengkapi dengan koneksi Wi-Fi, pengguna juga dapat dengan mudah untuk mencetak dan memindai tanpa harus terkoneksi dengan PC atau jaringan router. Printer ini juga dilengkapi dengan Access Point Mode yang telah didesain untuk dapat menjawab kebutuhan cetak tanpa harus menghubungkan perangkat dengan printer melalui kabel.

Dengan demikian, siapa saja juga dapat langsung mencetak hasil jepretan dari kamera digitalnya yang telah didukung oleh DPS over IP protocol atau dengan Wireless PictBridge yang lebih familiar.

Desain yang compact telah memberikan keleluasaan dan efisiensi dalam penempatan di berbagai sudut ruang rumah atau kantor. PIXMA MG7170 juga sudah dibekali dengan Canon's Intelligent Touch System, yaitu fitur layar sentuh untuk panel operasional dan layar LCD. Fitur ini juga hanya akan menyala pada tombol tertentu saat dioperasikan, menjadikan printer ini lebih sederhana.

Dengan PIXMA Cloud Link terbaru, telah membuat proses mencetak di PIXMA MG7170 jadi lebih seru. PIXMA Cloud Link ini telah terintegrasi penuh dengan fasilitas cloud printing di mana pengguna juga dapat mencetak dari situs jejaring sosial seperti Facebook dan Twitter ataupun situs berbagi foto seperti Picasa, Photobucket dan Flickr, bahkan dari layanan cloud storage seperti Evernote dan Dropbox.

Pengguna dari PIXMA MG7170 cukup login, kemudian memilih foto atau dokumen, lalu bisa langsung cetak. Itu semua dilakukan melalui layar LCD printer, tanpa menggunakan PC.

Bagi para pengguna tablet atau smartphone yang berbasis iOS atau Android juga bisa langsung mencetak maupun mendapatkan file scan dari printer ini.

Anda juga dapat dengan mudah untuk mengirimkan file ke perangkat mobile sehingga tidak perlu repot membawa lembaran dokumen hard copy.

"Kehadiran printer PIXMA MG7170 ini juga semakin memanjakan pengguna dengan pilihan tampilan warna yang menarik, serta fitur dan teknologi yang semakin memudahkan untuk proses mencetak maupun memindai, tanpa harus melalui PC atau terhubung melalui kabel. Cukup dengan perangkat mobile seperti tablet, smartphone ataupun kamera digital yang dapat terkoneksi Wi-Fi telah mencetak menjadi lebih mudah," Merry Harun, Canon Division Director, PT Datascrip.

Editor : Dian Sukmawati

Hockey is not exactly known as a city game, but played on roller skates, it once held sway as the sport of choice in many New York neighborhoods.

“City kids had no rinks, no ice, but they would do anything to play hockey,” said Edward Moffett, former director of the Long Island City Y.M.C.A. Roller Hockey League, in Queens, whose games were played in city playgrounds going back to the 1940s.

From the 1960s through the 1980s, the league had more than 60 teams, he said. Players included the Mullen brothers of Hell’s Kitchen and Dan Dorion of Astoria, Queens, who would later play on ice for the National Hockey League.

One street legend from the heyday of New York roller hockey was Craig Allen, who lived in the Woodside Houses projects and became one of the city’s hardest hitters and top scorers.

“Craig was a warrior, one of the best roller hockey players in the city in the ’70s,” said Dave Garmendia, 60, a retired New York police officer who grew up playing with Mr. Allen. “His teammates loved him and his opponents feared him.”

Young Craig took up hockey on the streets of Queens in the 1960s, playing pickup games between sewer covers, wearing steel-wheeled skates clamped onto school shoes and using a roll of electrical tape as the puck.

His skill and ferocity drew attention, Mr. Garmendia said, but so did his skin color. He was black, in a sport made up almost entirely by white players.

“Roller hockey was a white kid’s game, plain and simple, but Craig broke the color barrier,” Mr. Garmendia said. “We used to say Craig did more for race relations than the N.A.A.C.P.”

Mr. Allen went on to coach and referee roller hockey in New York before moving several years ago to South Carolina. But he continued to organize an annual alumni game at Dutch Kills Playground in Long Island City, the same site that held the local championship games.

The reunion this year was on Saturday, but Mr. Allen never made it. On April 26, just before boarding the bus to New York, he died of an asthma attack at age 61.

Word of his death spread rapidly among hundreds of his old hockey colleagues who resolved to continue with the event, now renamed the Craig Allen Memorial Roller Hockey Reunion.

The turnout on Saturday was the largest ever, with players pulling on their old equipment, choosing sides and taking once again to the rink of cracked blacktop with faded lines and circles. They wore no helmets, although one player wore a fedora.

Another, Vinnie Juliano, 77, of Long Island City, wore his hearing aids, along with his 50-year-old taped-up quads, or four-wheeled skates with a leather boot. Many players here never converted to in-line skates, and neither did Mr. Allen, whose photograph appeared on a poster hanging behind the players’ bench.

“I’m seeing people walking by wondering why all these rusty, grizzly old guys are here playing hockey,” one player, Tommy Dominguez, said. “We’re here for Craig, and let me tell you, these old guys still play hard.”

Everyone seemed to have a Craig Allen story, from his earliest teams at Public School 151 to the Bryant Rangers, the Woodside Wings, the Woodside Blues and more.

Mr. Allen, who became a yellow-cab driver, was always recruiting new talent. He gained the nickname Cabby for his habit of stopping at playgrounds all over the city to scout players.

Teams were organized around neighborhoods and churches, and often sponsored by local bars. Mr. Allen, for one, played for bars, including Garry Owen’s and on the Fiddler’s Green Jokers team in Inwood, Manhattan.

Play was tough and fights were frequent.

“We were basically street gangs on skates,” said Steve Rogg, 56, a mail clerk who grew up in Jackson Heights, Queens, and who on Saturday wore his Riedell Classic quads from 1972. “If another team caught up with you the night before a game, they tossed you a beating so you couldn’t play the next day.”

Mr. Garmendia said Mr. Allen’s skin color provoked many fights.

“When we’d go to some ignorant neighborhoods, a lot of players would use slurs,” Mr. Garmendia said, recalling a game in Ozone Park, Queens, where local fans parked motorcycles in a lineup next to the blacktop and taunted Mr. Allen. Mr. Garmendia said he checked a player into the motorcycles, “and the bikes went down like dominoes, which started a serious brawl.”

A group of fans at a game in Brooklyn once stuck a pole through the rink fence as Mr. Allen skated by and broke his jaw, Mr. Garmendia said, adding that carloads of reinforcements soon arrived to defend Mr. Allen.

And at another racially incited brawl, the police responded with six patrol cars and a helicopter.

Before play began on Saturday, the players gathered at center rink to honor Mr. Allen. Billy Barnwell, 59, of Woodside, recalled once how an all-white, all-star squad snubbed Mr. Allen by playing him third string. He scored seven goals in the first game and made first string immediately.

“He’d always hear racial stuff before the game, and I’d ask him, ‘How do you put up with that?’” Mr. Barnwell recalled. “Craig would say, ‘We’ll take care of it,’ and by the end of the game, he’d win guys over. They’d say, ‘This guy’s good.’”