Japanese printer makers Seiko Epson and Canon hope the increasing popularity of digital TV broadcasting and home networks will earn their printers a new place in your home: the living room. The companies, which are the second and third-ranked ink-jet printer makers in the world, are both developing printers that can be connected to digital TV sets, they said this week. The printers will work with data broadcasting services that could offer users coupons related to TV commercials or program-related information such as recipes or travel destination formatted for printing on regular sheets of paper.

“Digital TV printing is something you might hear a lot about soon,” said Seiichi Hirano, chief executive of Epson’s imaging products division, at a news conference in Tokyo on Tuesday. “People want to take information from anywhere they can and we think digital TV is an excellent way to achieve this.”

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