FOAK: Colour Printers

And another thought. Colour lasers are getting cheap now, and this is the
sort of thing that they're very good for.

 

I've had a Pixma iP5200r for over three years. Never had any problems
with it. The quality of printed photos is excellent [1]

[1] though that may be due to the camera being a Nikon
--
Richard

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Be aware, these cheap colour lasers are cheap for a reason. Not as you might
expect because they print poorly but because the consumables are eye
wateringly expensive and don't last very long. It is a rather good sales
ploy.

I'm sure you will get it all worked out but any challenges just call me. I
have a wonderful newish OKI 8600 A3 duplexing colour laser and a working
email account. The courier would have it to you Tuesday.

Smaller footprint than any other similar and one of the best things I've
*ever* bought.

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Hog

A kind offer, thanks but the little Canon is sitting to my right
churning out *very* acceptable quality prints.

It had the most protracted setup process I've ever encountered, but the
end result is very good.

Thanks to all for the recommendations.

--
Wicked Uncle Nigel - "He's hopeless, but he's honest"

I have already made the greatest contribution to the fight against climate
change that I can make: I have decided not to breed. Now quit bugging me and
go and talk to the Catholics.

 

I have the older iP4200 and it's been very good.

 

Odd, because the 4200 you can run to empty. With non-OEM ink it thinks
it's empty all the time and all you do it tell the software to ignore
the ink-level warning.

 

Can't agree. The iP4200 prints well under Fedora. You do have to make
sure you have the right driver, but it's only a one-off setup. My iP4200
is shared between XP and Linux boxes, the XP one is the host.

 

So first print the lot to a PDF in the correct order (you can merge
multiole pdf's into a single file with several choices of freeware if
need be) then take that single file to your local print emporium for
printing and binding.

 

that's the sensible option.

If you can't do what I'd do, which is to print it out on one of our
colour MFDs at work and get an intern[1] to collate and bind /
proofread it for me.

[1] we've just swapped over the old lot for a new intake - one new
Ghanaian bint is simply stunning (if you like that sort of thing)

 

We've got some astoundingly fit black girls in work - problem is, they're
all hopeless-case god-botherers, which is a bit off-putting.

 

hah - that reminds me of a black intern I had a few years back (a
bloke, mind).

When he started he was all god-squad-managing-the-PCs-at-his-local-
Baptist-church stuff.

At the end of his 10 months we'd got him drinking, smoking, shagging
[1] etc. - job done.


[1] he was very friendly with a pretty french chick from Service Desk,
and was at one point last seen leaving a bar with her on a friday
night. he was subsequently "off sick" on the following Monday and
Tuesday. When he returned to work on the Wednesday, he asked me for a
"special one-to-one" meeting during which he apologised for his
absence and explained that it was because he'd had "unprotected sex"
at the weekend and had taken time off to get an HIV test - which is
not a scenario covered in the various management courses I've had over
the years.

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, darsy

I went to a family christening yesterday. It was *very* fucking odd
indeed.

It turns out the vicar was a happy-clapper. We had some bird playing
"songs" on a Yamaha keyboard, completely ignoring the rather fine church
organ (presumably she's unable to play it). We had various types[1]
contributing to the service with a very heavy concentration on
programming the children.

All of the "songs", for example, had actions that went with them. The
whole congregation was supposed to join in. There were assorted old
biddies looking deeply uncomfortable.

I commented to my BiL that we could probably power the whole village by
hooking up generators to the graves in the graveyard.

All very, very sinister. I was very glad to get out and proceed to the
party.

[1] None of whom I would allow within a country mile of any child I had
responsibility for.

--
Wicked Uncle Nigel - "He's hopeless, but he's honest"

I have already made the greatest contribution to the fight against climate
change that I can make: I have decided not to breed. Now quit bugging me and
go and talk to the Catholics.

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Champ

By marriage.

--
Wicked Uncle Nigel - "He's hopeless, but he's honest"

I have already made the greatest contribution to the fight against climate
change that I can make: I have decided not to breed. Now quit bugging me and
go and talk to the Catholics.

 

We did a job at a local 'church of the poisoned mind' type gaff,
Abundant Life, in Bradford. Never having been before, the staff looked
like supermodels, i mean mega fit. All with deranged smiles & actually
singing at work.

Very scary place.

 

There's quite a few Iranian women work in this building & to be quite
honest, 99% are bloody stunning.

 

IME, the stunning "Iranian" women usually describe themselves as
"Persian".

 

I aint talked to any of 'em, some fucker just told me they came from
Iran

 

I didn't know who she was, having googled, so would I!

 

Ah you beat me to that. The sensible ones do not live in Iran.

 

IME plenty of sensible (and very beautiful) ones *do* live in Iran.