William Harrel

William Harrel

Former Contributing Editor

Bill's Experience

For nearly a decade, Bill focused on printer and scanner technology and reviews for PCMag, and wrote about computer technology since well before the advent of the internet. He authored or co-authored 20 books—including titles in the popular Bible, Secrets, and For Dummies series—on digital design and desktop publishing software applications. His published expertise in those areas included Adobe Acrobat, Adobe Photoshop, and QuarkXPress, as well as prepress imaging technology. (Over his long career, though, he covered many aspects of IT.)

In addition to writing hundreds of articles for PCMag, over the years he also wrote for many other computer and business publications, among them Computer Shopper, Digital Trends, MacUser, PC World, The Wirecutter, and Windows Magazine. He also served as the Printers and Scanners Expert at About.com.

Bill's Expertise

  • Imaging and prepress technology
  • The SOHO, SMB, and enterprise printer and scanner markets
  • Printer and scanner technology (and accompanying software)
  • Consumer-grade and pro-grade photo printing
  • Mobile printing and scanning
  • Optical character recognition (OCR)
  • Document management

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