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OT - New Toy
So, we got a new toy. After my everyday printer stopped working about 2
months ago, and my many attempts to clean the heads, finally coming down to we'll have to take the machine apart (have instructions) and try to clean the tiny tubes with a syringe and solution, and then hope....we gave in. Yes, I have a very nice graphics printer which does lovely things and can handle watercolour type paper, and goes up to 13" X 19", plus virtually infinite length banners. However, I don't like running it for everything. And the newer "old" printer had a scanner. Hooray - I took DH with me looking for the "try to fix the old printer" supplies, and we browsed printers. About 10 days ago. Then I got a sale thing from Epson. And then went to Microcenter and looked. We had seen this really nice new all-in-one at Staples - 1 model down IIRC from what we got. DH is very concerned that we should start scanning in the old family photo archives. Well, found this all-in-one with 4800 dpi scanning - ultra-hi-def. Amazingly - comes up with the big sale at Epson (25% off, and free shipping). It's got great toy features - and we rationalize that either we buy this now - on our tight budget - or buy something cheap for in the meantime, and still end up getting this in a few months. So, we took the plunge. Why is this so interesting - well the hi-def scanning. Plus this thing came with Photo editing software - most intriguing, it has built in capability for doing photo restoration when you're in the process of scanning in old photos. Plus a bunch of other artsy stuff - and has a tray for printing on CDs. And a stand alone fax. Anyhow - I spent a few hours getting part of the office cleaned, and crawling under the desk, un-snaking & then snaking cables, even put a new surge suppressor on the printers wall. So, I'm very excited to exercise some of this things capabilities. And finally, I can just print or photocopy or fax stuff - woohoo. ellice |
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On 6/26/09 10:18 PM, "ellice" wrote:
So, we got a new toy. After my everyday printer stopped working about 2 months ago, and my many attempts to clean the heads, finally coming down to we'll have to take the machine apart (have instructions) and try to clean the tiny tubes with a syringe and solution, and then hope....we gave in. Yes, I have a very nice graphics printer which does lovely things and can handle watercolour type paper, and goes up to 13" X 19", plus virtually infinite length banners. However, I don't like running it for everything. And the newer "old" printer had a scanner. Hooray - I took DH with me looking for the "try to fix the old printer" supplies, and we browsed printers. About 10 days ago. Then I got a sale thing from Epson. And then went to Microcenter and looked. We had seen this really nice new all-in-one at Staples - 1 model down IIRC from what we got. DH is very concerned that we should start scanning in the old family photo archives. Well, found this all-in-one with 4800 dpi scanning - ultra-hi-def. Amazingly - comes up with the big sale at Epson (25% off, and free shipping). It's got great toy features - and we rationalize that either we buy this now - on our tight budget - or buy something cheap for in the meantime, and still end up getting this in a few months. So, we took the plunge. Why is this so interesting - well the hi-def scanning. Plus this thing came with Photo editing software - most intriguing, it has built in capability for doing photo restoration when you're in the process of scanning in old photos. Plus a bunch of other artsy stuff - and has a tray for printing on CDs. And a stand alone fax. Anyhow - I spent a few hours getting part of the office cleaned, and crawling under the desk, un-snaking & then snaking cables, even put a new surge suppressor on the printers wall. So, I'm very excited to exercise some of this things capabilities. And finally, I can just print or photocopy or fax stuff - woohoo. ellice With incredibly bad netiquette, symptomatic of my quickly fading memory - I forgot to mention 3 things. This new toy, epson Artisan 800. Also, has a function that will turn a photo into a line drawing (coloring book) - fabulous for helping with some design stuff. 3rd thing - DH had me treat myself to new Daylight Ultimate lamp (literally at half price). Now, to find a home in the house for it. I'm now inundated with Daylight lamps - last year I got the artist professional long tube one that goes on my big easel or drafting table ( I asked shop owner to check the price while at Nashville- she came back with it - so I couldn't not take it). Now this one. I think my little Ott light is feeling outnumbered. Ellice |
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On 6/26/09 11:49 PM, in article , "ellice"
wrote: On 6/26/09 10:18 PM, "ellice" wrote: So, we got a new toy. After my everyday printer stopped working about 2 months ago, and my many attempts to clean the heads, finally coming down to we'll have to take the machine apart (have instructions) and try to clean the tiny tubes with a syringe and solution, and then hope....we gave in. Yes, I have a very nice graphics printer which does lovely things and can handle watercolour type paper, and goes up to 13" X 19", plus virtually infinite length banners. However, I don't like running it for everything. And the newer "old" printer had a scanner. Hooray - I took DH with me looking for the "try to fix the old printer" supplies, and we browsed printers. About 10 days ago. Then I got a sale thing from Epson. And then went to Microcenter and looked. We had seen this really nice new all-in-one at Staples - 1 model down IIRC from what we got. DH is very concerned that we should start scanning in the old family photo archives. Well, found this all-in-one with 4800 dpi scanning - ultra-hi-def. Amazingly - comes up with the big sale at Epson (25% off, and free shipping). It's got great toy features - and we rationalize that either we buy this now - on our tight budget - or buy something cheap for in the meantime, and still end up getting this in a few months. So, we took the plunge. Why is this so interesting - well the hi-def scanning. Plus this thing came with Photo editing software - most intriguing, it has built in capability for doing photo restoration when you're in the process of scanning in old photos. Plus a bunch of other artsy stuff - and has a tray for printing on CDs. And a stand alone fax. Anyhow - I spent a few hours getting part of the office cleaned, and crawling under the desk, un-snaking & then snaking cables, even put a new surge suppressor on the printers wall. So, I'm very excited to exercise some of this things capabilities. And finally, I can just print or photocopy or fax stuff - woohoo. ellice With incredibly bad netiquette, symptomatic of my quickly fading memory - I forgot to mention 3 things. This new toy, epson Artisan 800. Also, has a function that will turn a photo into a line drawing (coloring book) - fabulous for helping with some design stuff. 3rd thing - DH had me treat myself to new Daylight Ultimate lamp (literally at half price). Now, to find a home in the house for it. I'm now inundated with Daylight lamps - last year I got the artist professional long tube one that goes on my big easel or drafting table ( I asked shop owner to check the price while at Nashville- she came back with it - so I couldn't not take it). Now this one. I think my little Ott light is feeling outnumbered. Ellice I am so envious. I have the one Ott and DD and I want to clean up the basement for a "messy craft" area. AKA the painting, the beads. Nothing too fancy, just tables and lighting and something to sit on... C |
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On 6/27/09 5:59 AM, "Cheryl Isaak" wrote:
On 6/26/09 11:49 PM, in article , "ellice" wrote: On 6/26/09 10:18 PM, "ellice" wrote: So, we got a new toy. After my everyday printer stopped working about 2 months ago, and my many attempts to clean the heads, finally coming down to we'll have to take the machine apart (have instructions) and try to clean the tiny tubes with a syringe and solution, and then hope....we gave in. Yes, I have a very nice graphics printer which does lovely things and can handle watercolour type paper, and goes up to 13" X 19", plus virtually infinite length banners. However, I don't like running it for everything. And the newer "old" printer had a scanner. Hooray - I took DH with me looking for the "try to fix the old printer" supplies, and we browsed printers. About 10 days ago. Then I got a sale thing from Epson. And then went to Microcenter and looked. We had seen this really nice new all-in-one at Staples - 1 model down IIRC from what we got. DH is very concerned that we should start scanning in the old family photo archives. Well, found this all-in-one with 4800 dpi scanning - ultra-hi-def. Amazingly - comes up with the big sale at Epson (25% off, and free shipping). It's got great toy features - and we rationalize that either we buy this now - on our tight budget - or buy something cheap for in the meantime, and still end up getting this in a few months. So, we took the plunge. Why is this so interesting - well the hi-def scanning. Plus this thing came with Photo editing software - most intriguing, it has built in capability for doing photo restoration when you're in the process of scanning in old photos. Plus a bunch of other artsy stuff - and has a tray for printing on CDs. And a stand alone fax. Anyhow - I spent a few hours getting part of the office cleaned, and crawling under the desk, un-snaking & then snaking cables, even put a new surge suppressor on the printers wall. So, I'm very excited to exercise some of this things capabilities. And finally, I can just print or photocopy or fax stuff - woohoo. ellice With incredibly bad netiquette, symptomatic of my quickly fading memory - I forgot to mention 3 things. This new toy, epson Artisan 800. Also, has a function that will turn a photo into a line drawing (coloring book) - fabulous for helping with some design stuff. 3rd thing - DH had me treat myself to new Daylight Ultimate lamp (literally at half price). Now, to find a home in the house for it. I'm now inundated with Daylight lamps - last year I got the artist professional long tube one that goes on my big easel or drafting table ( I asked shop owner to check the price while at Nashville- she came back with it - so I couldn't not take it). Now this one. I think my little Ott light is feeling outnumbered. Ellice I am so envious. I have the one Ott and DD and I want to clean up the basement for a "messy craft" area. AKA the painting, the beads. Nothing too fancy, just tables and lighting and something to sit on... C Well, don't be too jealous - I still have the dust dragons to clean - and other stuff to organize. Ellice |
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On 6/27/09 1:08 PM, in article , "ellice"
wrote: On 6/27/09 5:59 AM, "Cheryl Isaak" wrote: On 6/26/09 11:49 PM, in article , "ellice" wrote: On 6/26/09 10:18 PM, "ellice" wrote: So, we got a new toy. After my everyday printer stopped working about 2 months ago, and my many attempts to clean the heads, finally coming down to we'll have to take the machine apart (have instructions) and try to clean the tiny tubes with a syringe and solution, and then hope....we gave in. Yes, I have a very nice graphics printer which does lovely things and can handle watercolour type paper, and goes up to 13" X 19", plus virtually infinite length banners. However, I don't like running it for everything. And the newer "old" printer had a scanner. Hooray - I took DH with me looking for the "try to fix the old printer" supplies, and we browsed printers. About 10 days ago. Then I got a sale thing from Epson. And then went to Microcenter and looked. We had seen this really nice new all-in-one at Staples - 1 model down IIRC from what we got. DH is very concerned that we should start scanning in the old family photo archives. Well, found this all-in-one with 4800 dpi scanning - ultra-hi-def. Amazingly - comes up with the big sale at Epson (25% off, and free shipping). It's got great toy features - and we rationalize that either we buy this now - on our tight budget - or buy something cheap for in the meantime, and still end up getting this in a few months. So, we took the plunge. Why is this so interesting - well the hi-def scanning. Plus this thing came with Photo editing software - most intriguing, it has built in capability for doing photo restoration when you're in the process of scanning in old photos. Plus a bunch of other artsy stuff - and has a tray for printing on CDs. And a stand alone fax. Anyhow - I spent a few hours getting part of the office cleaned, and crawling under the desk, un-snaking & then snaking cables, even put a new surge suppressor on the printers wall. So, I'm very excited to exercise some of this things capabilities. And finally, I can just print or photocopy or fax stuff - woohoo. ellice With incredibly bad netiquette, symptomatic of my quickly fading memory - I forgot to mention 3 things. This new toy, epson Artisan 800. Also, has a function that will turn a photo into a line drawing (coloring book) - fabulous for helping with some design stuff. 3rd thing - DH had me treat myself to new Daylight Ultimate lamp (literally at half price). Now, to find a home in the house for it. I'm now inundated with Daylight lamps - last year I got the artist professional long tube one that goes on my big easel or drafting table ( I asked shop owner to check the price while at Nashville- she came back with it - so I couldn't not take it). Now this one. I think my little Ott light is feeling outnumbered. Ellice I am so envious. I have the one Ott and DD and I want to clean up the basement for a "messy craft" area. AKA the painting, the beads. Nothing too fancy, just tables and lighting and something to sit on... C Well, don't be too jealous - I still have the dust dragons to clean - and other stuff to organize. Ellice But a second "daylight" type light would be so nice. DH is currently using mine as a reading lamp (you'd like what he's reading, "Unholy Business", archeology and fraud in the Holy Land) Cheryl |
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On 6/27/09 9:02 PM, "Cheryl Isaak" wrote:
On 6/27/09 1:08 PM, in article , "ellice" wrote: On 6/27/09 5:59 AM, "Cheryl Isaak" wrote: On 6/26/09 11:49 PM, in article , "ellice" wrote: On 6/26/09 10:18 PM, "ellice" wrote: So, we got a new toy. After my everyday printer stopped working about 2 months ago, and my many attempts to clean the heads, finally coming down to we'll have to take the machine apart (have instructions) and try to clean the tiny tubes with a syringe and solution, and then hope....we gave in. Yes, I have a very nice graphics printer which does lovely things and can handle watercolour type paper, and goes up to 13" X 19", plus virtually infinite length banners. However, I don't like running it for everything. And the newer "old" printer had a scanner. Hooray - I took DH with me looking for the "try to fix the old printer" supplies, and we browsed printers. About 10 days ago. Then I got a sale thing from Epson. And then went to Microcenter and looked. We had seen this really nice new all-in-one at Staples - 1 model down IIRC from what we got. DH is very concerned that we should start scanning in the old family photo archives. Well, found this all-in-one with 4800 dpi scanning - ultra-hi-def. Amazingly - comes up with the big sale at Epson (25% off, and free shipping). It's got great toy features - and we rationalize that either we buy this now - on our tight budget - or buy something cheap for in the meantime, and still end up getting this in a few months. So, we took the plunge. Why is this so interesting - well the hi-def scanning. Plus this thing came with Photo editing software - most intriguing, it has built in capability for doing photo restoration when you're in the process of scanning in old photos. Plus a bunch of other artsy stuff - and has a tray for printing on CDs. And a stand alone fax. Anyhow - I spent a few hours getting part of the office cleaned, and crawling under the desk, un-snaking & then snaking cables, even put a new surge suppressor on the printers wall. So, I'm very excited to exercise some of this things capabilities. And finally, I can just print or photocopy or fax stuff - woohoo. ellice With incredibly bad netiquette, symptomatic of my quickly fading memory - I forgot to mention 3 things. This new toy, epson Artisan 800. Also, has a function that will turn a photo into a line drawing (coloring book) - fabulous for helping with some design stuff. 3rd thing - DH had me treat myself to new Daylight Ultimate lamp (literally at half price). Now, to find a home in the house for it. I'm now inundated with Daylight lamps - last year I got the artist professional long tube one that goes on my big easel or drafting table ( I asked shop owner to check the price while at Nashville- she came back with it - so I couldn't not take it). Now this one. I think my little Ott light is feeling outnumbered. Ellice I am so envious. I have the one Ott and DD and I want to clean up the basement for a "messy craft" area. AKA the painting, the beads. Nothing too fancy, just tables and lighting and something to sit on... C Well, don't be too jealous - I still have the dust dragons to clean - and other stuff to organize. Ellice But a second "daylight" type light would be so nice. DH is currently using mine as a reading lamp (you'd like what he's reading, "Unholy Business", archeology and fraud in the Holy Land) Cheryl Ah, well - I have a "daylight spectrum" desk lamp for reading in the bedroom. Costco had one, so I bought it. Got one for the Goddaughter to schlep with her to MIT as well. My handle-carrying Ott lite moves around the house. The Daylight that is the "professional" one - it has to stay affixed to the drafting table or I'll take it to the big easel when it's up again. It's really an artist's light. I am pretty excited about the big standing one. Also because it has the magnifier, and when I use the floor stand, my little magnifier is too short a neck to reach to where I need it usually, and this one on the lamp will help. The book sounds interesting. I just returned and interesting book called "Diaspora" - a bit academic, but pretty interesting nonetheless. Ellice |
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On 6/27/09 10:32 PM, in article , "ellice"
wrote: On 6/27/09 9:02 PM, "Cheryl Isaak" wrote: On 6/27/09 1:08 PM, in article , "ellice" wrote: On 6/27/09 5:59 AM, "Cheryl Isaak" wrote: On 6/26/09 11:49 PM, in article , "ellice" wrote: On 6/26/09 10:18 PM, "ellice" wrote: So, we got a new toy. After my everyday printer stopped working about 2 months ago, and my many attempts to clean the heads, finally coming down to we'll have to take the machine apart (have instructions) and try to clean the tiny tubes with a syringe and solution, and then hope....we gave in. Yes, I have a very nice graphics printer which does lovely things and can handle watercolour type paper, and goes up to 13" X 19", plus virtually infinite length banners. However, I don't like running it for everything. And the newer "old" printer had a scanner. Hooray - I took DH with me looking for the "try to fix the old printer" supplies, and we browsed printers. About 10 days ago. Then I got a sale thing from Epson. And then went to Microcenter and looked. We had seen this really nice new all-in-one at Staples - 1 model down IIRC from what we got. DH is very concerned that we should start scanning in the old family photo archives. Well, found this all-in-one with 4800 dpi scanning - ultra-hi-def. Amazingly - comes up with the big sale at Epson (25% off, and free shipping). It's got great toy features - and we rationalize that either we buy this now - on our tight budget - or buy something cheap for in the meantime, and still end up getting this in a few months. So, we took the plunge. Why is this so interesting - well the hi-def scanning. Plus this thing came with Photo editing software - most intriguing, it has built in capability for doing photo restoration when you're in the process of scanning in old photos. Plus a bunch of other artsy stuff - and has a tray for printing on CDs. And a stand alone fax. Anyhow - I spent a few hours getting part of the office cleaned, and crawling under the desk, un-snaking & then snaking cables, even put a new surge suppressor on the printers wall. So, I'm very excited to exercise some of this things capabilities. And finally, I can just print or photocopy or fax stuff - woohoo. ellice With incredibly bad netiquette, symptomatic of my quickly fading memory - I forgot to mention 3 things. This new toy, epson Artisan 800. Also, has a function that will turn a photo into a line drawing (coloring book) - fabulous for helping with some design stuff. 3rd thing - DH had me treat myself to new Daylight Ultimate lamp (literally at half price). Now, to find a home in the house for it. I'm now inundated with Daylight lamps - last year I got the artist professional long tube one that goes on my big easel or drafting table ( I asked shop owner to check the price while at Nashville- she came back with it - so I couldn't not take it). Now this one. I think my little Ott light is feeling outnumbered. Ellice I am so envious. I have the one Ott and DD and I want to clean up the basement for a "messy craft" area. AKA the painting, the beads. Nothing too fancy, just tables and lighting and something to sit on... C Well, don't be too jealous - I still have the dust dragons to clean - and other stuff to organize. Ellice But a second "daylight" type light would be so nice. DH is currently using mine as a reading lamp (you'd like what he's reading, "Unholy Business", archeology and fraud in the Holy Land) Cheryl Ah, well - I have a "daylight spectrum" desk lamp for reading in the bedroom. Costco had one, so I bought it. Got one for the Goddaughter to schlep with her to MIT as well. My handle-carrying Ott lite moves around the house. The Daylight that is the "professional" one - it has to stay affixed to the drafting table or I'll take it to the big easel when it's up again. It's really an artist's light. I am pretty excited about the big standing one. Also because it has the magnifier, and when I use the floor stand, my little magnifier is too short a neck to reach to where I need it usually, and this one on the lamp will help. Every so often, the local "Big Lots" has daylight type lamps and I'm buying several next time. One for next to the chair up stairs, one for each child and one for where I decide.... The book sounds interesting. I just returned and interesting book called "Diaspora" - a bit academic, but pretty interesting nonetheless. Ellice I've just gotten "Unholy Business from DH's hot hands. He was bored by it... |
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With so many add-ons bonus things with printers, sometimes hard
to know to pick one for the printer specs or the extras. I just swapped out one of the Brother mono laser printer for a Samsung Colour laser printer. I did kept the better Brother mono laser printer, but the software included with both are very different. Does make it a little confusing when in a rush. LOL At least, the inkjets are both Canon so software is generally the same. Main difference in them is one has the scanner while the other is a high-quality photo printer with double-side printing feature [printer turns paper]. Only thing is the price of replacement inks, can get the cheaper ones but then they are half ink level of the pricey ones, then I have had times that it was cheaper to buy new printer than replace inks. Did that for the scanner printer last month, almost half price of new ink. Yes, I do have 4 printers on the main system. Also 2 drawing tablets; extra lightscribe burner; 5.1 sound system; 2 external Terabyte+ hard-drives; and a few other toys. "ellice" wrote in message ... On 6/26/09 10:18 PM, "ellice" wrote: So, we got a new toy. After my everyday printer stopped working about 2 months ago, and my many attempts to clean the heads, finally coming down to we'll have to take the machine apart (have instructions) and try to clean the tiny tubes with a syringe and solution, and then hope....we gave in. Yes, I have a very nice graphics printer which does lovely things and can handle watercolour type paper, and goes up to 13" X 19", plus virtually infinite length banners. However, I don't like running it for everything. And the newer "old" printer had a scanner. Hooray - I took DH with me looking for the "try to fix the old printer" supplies, and we browsed printers. About 10 days ago. Then I got a sale thing from Epson. And then went to Microcenter and looked. We had seen this really nice new all-in-one at Staples - 1 model down IIRC from what we got. DH is very concerned that we should start scanning in the old family photo archives. Well, found this all-in-one with 4800 dpi scanning - ultra-hi-def. Amazingly - comes up with the big sale at Epson (25% off, and free shipping). It's got great toy features - and we rationalize that either we buy this now - on our tight budget - or buy something cheap for in the meantime, and still end up getting this in a few months. So, we took the plunge. Why is this so interesting - well the hi-def scanning. Plus this thing came with Photo editing software - most intriguing, it has built in capability for doing photo restoration when you're in the process of scanning in old photos. Plus a bunch of other artsy stuff - and has a tray for printing on CDs. And a stand alone fax. Anyhow - I spent a few hours getting part of the office cleaned, and crawling under the desk, un-snaking & then snaking cables, even put a new surge suppressor on the printers wall. So, I'm very excited to exercise some of this things capabilities. And finally, I can just print or photocopy or fax stuff - woohoo. ellice With incredibly bad netiquette, symptomatic of my quickly fading memory - I forgot to mention 3 things. This new toy, epson Artisan 800. Also, has a function that will turn a photo into a line drawing (coloring book) - fabulous for helping with some design stuff. 3rd thing - DH had me treat myself to new Daylight Ultimate lamp (literally at half price). Now, to find a home in the house for it. I'm now inundated with Daylight lamps - last year I got the artist professional long tube one that goes on my big easel or drafting table ( I asked shop owner to check the price while at Nashville- she came back with it - so I couldn't not take it). Now this one. I think my little Ott light is feeling outnumbered. Ellice |
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On 6/30/09 4:01 AM, "J. H. T./B.D.P." wrote:
With so many add-ons bonus things with printers, sometimes hard to know to pick one for the printer specs or the extras. I just swapped out one of the Brother mono laser printer for a Samsung Colour laser printer. I did kept the better Brother mono laser printer, but the software included with both are very different. Does make it a little confusing when in a rush. LOL I can see this. We picked this printer for the specs - love this 4800 dpi scan. And I needed a fax besides going thru the computer. At least, the inkjets are both Canon so software is generally the same. Main difference in them is one has the scanner while the other is a high-quality photo printer with double-side printing feature [printer turns paper]. I love that double sided printing feature if doing a lot. I have to buy the duplexing tray for this Artisan, and will do that once it looks like there is reason for it. I seem to be living in Epson world here, and it's just the matter of downloading the specific drivers for each of the printers. We also have a specific photo printer - a "piecture Mate" plus. It's really handy, does only 4X6 paper, but you can have it do half-size or passport size photos, and it will run on batteries, stand-along -reading memory cards, or hooked up to the computer. Very good quality on the photos. Only thing is the price of replacement inks, can get the cheaper ones but then they are half ink level of the pricey ones, then I have had times that it was cheaper to buy new printer than replace inks. Did that for the scanner printer last month, almost half price of new ink. I actually tried using Staples ink for black & color on the everyday old printer. Forget it - the ink stopped being usable before getting to the bottom, and the color wasn't as good. So, we suck it up and buy the true Epson print. This one has 6 cartridges, and happily we got an extra hi-capacity of the black as a bonus with the printer. Yes, I do have 4 printers on the main system. Also 2 drawing tablets; extra lightscribe burner; 5.1 sound system; 2 external Terabyte+ hard-drives; and a few other toys. Nice toys. I'm in desperate need of a new tablet - soon, I think. And, this week's errand - a new USB hub. The machine has a superdrive, which burns whatever, plus we have a couple of external LaCie firewire peripherals (hot swappable), hard drive & CD burner. It's enough - I can back-up on the firewire drive, and this machine has more storage than I need. Next toy - new laptop - but we're waiting a bit. Ellice "ellice" wrote in message ... On 6/26/09 10:18 PM, "ellice" wrote: So, we got a new toy. After my everyday printer stopped working about 2 months ago, and my many attempts to clean the heads, finally coming down to we'll have to take the machine apart (have instructions) and try to clean the tiny tubes with a syringe and solution, and then hope....we gave in. Yes, I have a very nice graphics printer which does lovely things and can handle watercolour type paper, and goes up to 13" X 19", plus virtually infinite length banners. However, I don't like running it for everything. And the newer "old" printer had a scanner. Hooray - I took DH with me looking for the "try to fix the old printer" supplies, and we browsed printers. About 10 days ago. Then I got a sale thing from Epson. And then went to Microcenter and looked. We had seen this really nice new all-in-one at Staples - 1 model down IIRC from what we got. DH is very concerned that we should start scanning in the old family photo archives. Well, found this all-in-one with 4800 dpi scanning - ultra-hi-def. Amazingly - comes up with the big sale at Epson (25% off, and free shipping). It's got great toy features - and we rationalize that either we buy this now - on our tight budget - or buy something cheap for in the meantime, and still end up getting this in a few months. So, we took the plunge. Why is this so interesting - well the hi-def scanning. Plus this thing came with Photo editing software - most intriguing, it has built in capability for doing photo restoration when you're in the process of scanning in old photos. Plus a bunch of other artsy stuff - and has a tray for printing on CDs. And a stand alone fax. Anyhow - I spent a few hours getting part of the office cleaned, and crawling under the desk, un-snaking & then snaking cables, even put a new surge suppressor on the printers wall. So, I'm very excited to exercise some of this things capabilities. And finally, I can just print or photocopy or fax stuff - woohoo. ellice With incredibly bad netiquette, symptomatic of my quickly fading memory - I forgot to mention 3 things. This new toy, epson Artisan 800. Also, has a function that will turn a photo into a line drawing (coloring book) - fabulous for helping with some design stuff. 3rd thing - DH had me treat myself to new Daylight Ultimate lamp (literally at half price). Now, to find a home in the house for it. I'm now inundated with Daylight lamps - last year I got the artist professional long tube one that goes on my big easel or drafting table ( I asked shop owner to check the price while at Nashville- she came back with it - so I couldn't not take it). Now this one. I think my little Ott light is feeling outnumbered. Ellice |
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OT - New Toy
With so many add-ons bonus things with printers, sometimes hard
to know to pick one for the printer specs or the extras. I just swapped out one of the Brother mono laser printer for a Samsung Colour laser printer. I did kept the better Brother mono laser printer, but the software included with both are very different. Does make it a little confusing when in a rush. LOL I can see this. We picked this printer for the specs - love this 4800 dpi scan. And I needed a fax besides going thru the computer. At least, the inkjets are both Canon so software is generally the same. Main difference in them is one has the scanner while the other is a high-quality photo printer with double-side printing feature [printer turns paper]. I love that double sided printing feature if doing a lot. I have to buy the duplexing tray for this Artisan, and will do that once it looks like there is reason for it. I seem to be living in Epson world here, and it's just the matter of downloading the specific drivers for each of the printers. We also have a specific photo printer - a "piecture Mate" plus. It's really handy, does only 4X6 paper, but you can have it do half-size or passport size photos, and it will run on batteries, stand-along -reading memory cards, or hooked up to the computer. Very good quality on the photos. One of the things I found for doing duplex printing, get one that has the separate tray. The build-in versions seem to "dry out" the lubricant in the gears after a time and then seems to slow and drag till cleaned and lubed again. Only thing is the price of replacement inks, can get the cheaper ones but then they are half ink level of the pricey ones, then I have had times that it was cheaper to buy new printer than replace inks. Did that for the scanner printer last month, almost half price of new ink. I actually tried using Staples ink for black & color on the everyday old printer. Forget it - the ink stopped being usable before getting to the bottom, and the color wasn't as good. So, we suck it up and buy the true Epson print. This one has 6 cartridges, and happily we got an extra hi-capacity of the black as a bonus with the printer. Had the same trouble with Staples ink, only printer it worked alright in was an old canon from 5-8 years ago but not for fancy printing just the general printing. Yes, I do have 4 printers on the main system. Also 2 drawing tablets; extra lightscribe burner; 5.1 sound system; 2 external Terabyte+ hard-drives; and a few other toys. Nice toys. I'm in desperate need of a new tablet - soon, I think. And, this week's errand - a new USB hub. The machine has a superdrive, which burns whatever, plus we have a couple of external LaCie firewire peripherals (hot swappable), hard drive & CD burner. It's enough - I can back-up on the firewire drive, and this machine has more storage than I need. Next toy - new laptop - but we're waiting a bit. I have small Wacom Graphire 4 is thick and very small in the drawing area, don't use it much since I got late last year a larger Genius G-Pen F610. It is nice when using the Windows mouse/pen functions, the outer ring has pre-set functions and programmable places of common Windows or program actions. Mine has drawing area of 6 x 10 inches while there are both larger and smaller versions, with this just place picture under the cover then trace, erase, and colour your work. Something from the same company I have is the G-Note 7100, it is a full-size notepad that can store all your writings/drawings in all the colours [blue and black included, other colours extra]. Just have to transfer pad pages with usb cable, usage samples a 1) use pre-printed pages and just fill in blanks; 2) sign-in record sheets; or 3) normal meeting notes but nicely transferrable [even includes general version of program to read writing and converts]. Ellice "ellice" wrote in message ... On 6/26/09 10:18 PM, "ellice" wrote: So, we got a new toy. After my everyday printer stopped working about 2 months ago, and my many attempts to clean the heads, finally coming down to we'll have to take the machine apart (have instructions) and try to clean the tiny tubes with a syringe and solution, and then hope....we gave in. Yes, I have a very nice graphics printer which does lovely things and can handle watercolour type paper, and goes up to 13" X 19", plus virtually infinite length banners. However, I don't like running it for everything. And the newer "old" printer had a scanner. Hooray - I took DH with me looking for the "try to fix the old printer" supplies, and we browsed printers. About 10 days ago. Then I got a sale thing from Epson. And then went to Microcenter and looked. We had seen this really nice new all-in-one at Staples - 1 model down IIRC from what we got. DH is very concerned that we should start scanning in the old family photo archives. Well, found this all-in-one with 4800 dpi scanning - ultra-hi-def. Amazingly - comes up with the big sale at Epson (25% off, and free shipping). It's got great toy features - and we rationalize that either we buy this now - on our tight budget - or buy something cheap for in the meantime, and still end up getting this in a few months. So, we took the plunge. Why is this so interesting - well the hi-def scanning. Plus this thing came with Photo editing software - most intriguing, it has built in capability for doing photo restoration when you're in the process of scanning in old photos. Plus a bunch of other artsy stuff - and has a tray for printing on CDs. And a stand alone fax. Anyhow - I spent a few hours getting part of the office cleaned, and crawling under the desk, un-snaking & then snaking cables, even put a new surge suppressor on the printers wall. So, I'm very excited to exercise some of this things capabilities. And finally, I can just print or photocopy or fax stuff - woohoo. ellice With incredibly bad netiquette, symptomatic of my quickly fading memory - I forgot to mention 3 things. This new toy, epson Artisan 800. Also, has a function that will turn a photo into a line drawing (coloring book) - fabulous for helping with some design stuff. 3rd thing - DH had me treat myself to new Daylight Ultimate lamp (literally at half price). Now, to find a home in the house for it. I'm now inundated with Daylight lamps - last year I got the artist professional long tube one that goes on my big easel or drafting table ( I asked shop owner to check the price while at Nashville- she came back with it - so I couldn't not take it). Now this one. I think my little Ott light is feeling outnumbered. Ellice |
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