Re: Get religion


"Rumpelstiltskin" <PleaseDoNotReplyByEmail@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Thu, 06 Dec 2007 16:22:10 -0500, emily2@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:

On Thu, 06 Dec 2007 20:58:18 GMT, Rumpelstiltskin
<PleaseDoNotReplyByEmail@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On the other hand, I do wish things would stop getting
more complicated. I just got back from looking for a printer,
since my printer seems to have finally passed from this
world for good and all. It might have died a while ago, since
I don't think I've printed anything since the last time I got
and printed plane tickets back in June. Ideally, I'd like to
get an Epson printer that only prints in black. Not a chance.
All I saw were printers that have black and colour, are also
scanners and a fax machine, and have memory and a disk
reader to allow you to print from disk without attaching the
printer to a computer. That was all there were both at
Best Buy and Costco. They're only a hundred bucks or so,
which is remarkable cheap, but I don't want something like
that, that has five times as many ways to break down as a
simple printer, but apparently I'm living in the dark ages, in
the eyes of geekdom, and if I don't want to fax anything,
there must be something wrong with me. Not only do I not
want to fax anything, I want to be able to honestly tell
anybody who wants me to send or receive a fax that I
don't have that capability. I'll have to look on EBay to see
if I can get something a little closer to what I want.

I recently bought the Brother HL-2040 laser printer that El Castor
recommended. It was $60 after the rebate at Staples, and I got it on
the last day of that particular sale. I found that it simply will
not handle the 4.5" x 4.5" pieces of paper I'd cut for jewel case
inserts, but I solved that problem by printing the names of the movies
on labels and sticking them on the pieces of pre-cut paper.

I'm very happy with this printer. Did you ever put the *** of
labels in the printer upside down? I keep it rather dark in my office
and sometimes I make that mistake, as I did yesterday, and was
delighted to find that with a laser printer, you just get print on the
wrong side, not ink streaking down the page as happened with an ink
jet printer.

I looked at the printer selection at BJ's, our local discount place
like Costco, and the only thing they had were the type you describe
with scanner and fax built in. Like you, I have no desire to fax
anything, and I have a perfectly good scanner, so I didn't want the
combination.


As I noted, I hardly ever use printers. Maybe my paranoia
about laser printers is unfounded, based on my recollection
of the scary toner boxes that had to be handled with
caution, were likely to spill black stuff that I thought might
kill me, and that had to sent away when empty to some
disposal agency that shot them into outer space or something.

I'm going to put a lock on your post though, and look into
this when I get around to it. Translation, I may find it easier
just to keep kvetching and doing without a printer rather
than venture into the dread unknown by buying a printer that's
not familiar to me. One question I have is, if I don't use the
printer for six months, will it spring to attention with vibrant
enthusiasm and fitness as soon as I fire it up, like the
Volkswagen that Woody Allen found in a cave two hundred
years after automobiles had been abandoned because they
were no longer needed, in the movie "Sleeper", or is there
going to be some ugly problem like the deterioration of
Tutankhamen's skin when I try to start it up after leaving it
alone for so long?

An option you could entertain is buying a cheap thumb drive and whenever you
do need to print something just email it or save it on the thumbdrive and
then take it to a printer. A friend or if you live near a Kinko's or any
commercial printer would do the trick.

JP


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