Re: OT - New Toy

"ellice" <egirl22@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:C6714F40.1563E%egirl22@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
On 7/1/09 2:07 AM, "J. H. T./B.D.P." <bluedragon@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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.

Exactly. This has a separate tray - something like a $20-$30 add on.

Like that price better, than repair price after. Just like a mechanic pricing,
$40-65 base level and then more after. Parts extra....lol

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.

Good to know I'm not the only one.

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.

Getting bored with ones I have, I'm looking at getting at least a 17" screen
but would prefer a 20" screen. When I get my cheque this month I might
get a new one, and give away one of the 17" laptops like I did for the last
three I changed [niece's dad had her pay me $100 for one gotten from me,
but I added extras that were sitting in boxes wasting away....lol] I have been
looking at permanently using the 32" hi-def lcd monitor.

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.

Yup, I have one of the Wacom Graphires. Works fine, has about 6 X 9 drawing
area. But, I really need something a little bigger. The Genius G-Pen
sounds really interesting.

You have the Wacom bigger than mine. The stores didn't carry them and/or
they were very pricey around here for some reason. Yet the next city up have
things cheaper for some reason even thou both are actual cities with same item.


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 are: 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].

Interesting capabilities. For me, it's about having the pressure sensitive
pen/pad and a large enough surface area for putting things into Illustrator.
I haven't been seriously shopping for this, as it's a luxury, but expect to
get a new pad in the next couple of months. Plenty of graphics peripherals
for the machine, so I'm hoping to try some, and keep up with the reviews.

Both of the Genius can be set the have the pens bleed on screen and also set
the pressure for the brush type pointers sensitivity for the different pen types.

I haven't had time to check out the Windows 7 yet to see if I want that. Can do
like laptop for 2 years ago, get the XP OS installed and install new OS when
I have used it on another laptop first.

House is getting updated and repairs done as ordered by federal government
programs here, moving living room to bigger location of 2 spare old bedrooms,
and enlarging dining room using part of old living room and rest goes to kitchen.
Over $30, 000 [mine and government] for changes goes out very fast, and some
places look like very little done but boy did it add up.

I want to set the voice commands and controls. Just the time to train it is the
only pain I have ever found with them. I want to get the Blu-ray burner to
work with the laptops, have one but not in the laptop and I don't have tower
to just put the unit into. It was easier to set up a LAN in parents' house
20-25 years ago using 7 to 18 towers while doing classes...lol

I'm getting all of these new things soon since cancer center wants me to
decide for treatments if available and see how long, or just drive over to
get pain killers every few weeks. So I have to decide, I want best so I can
not waste time with repairs and things. I don't have time to waste on
that.

.

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