RNorm
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Post by RNorm on Mar 22, 2018 12:27:53 GMT -5
So, my smoking hot trophy wife and I (and our homeschooled daughter) are in dire need of a new printer.
I want to know who uses what and why? How much was it? What does it do? What is the cost per page? What does it NOT do that you wish it did?
I also want to copy, fax, and scan. Lack of wifi capability wouldn't necessarily be a deal breaker, but darn close!
annnnnnd...GO! Several years ago, I purchased the Canon PIXMA MX340 Wireless Office All-in-One Printer for $65 from Amazon:
Super G3 High-speed Fax ensures efficient communication and thanks to Dual Color Gamut Processing Technology, your copies will maintain the integrity of the original. This versatile Wireless Office All-In-One also prints photo lab quality pictures. Speaking of photos, take full advantage of Canon’s fantastic Wi-Fi printing technology and print your photos wirelessly from compatible iPhone 3G, 3GS and iPod touch devices. Enjoy additional computer-less printing capabilities via PictBridge and optional Bluetooth while you set your quantities on a Full Dot Matrix LCD. Easy-WebPrint EX6 allows you to print what you want off the web, when you want. So surf the web, create your layouts, combine text and pictures and print out pages however you like. Because its wireless, it meets the need of our entire household. We've been using this years now and have never had a problem with it. While newer printers have come along, because the Canon has been so reliable I don't see buying a new printer until this one dies of old age...
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rjgimp
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Post by rjgimp on Mar 23, 2018 3:32:18 GMT -5
So... yesterday I had the laptop... y'know, actually ON MY LAP. Yeah...that's just crazy talk, right? I turned to speak to my smoking hot trophy wife and it started sliding OFF my lap and would have hit the floor if not for my ninja-like reflexes! Problem was, when I grabbed it I hit an unknown random combination of keys that rotated my display 90deg counterclockwise! That wouldn't have been so bad but at the same time my touchpad function somehow got rotated clockwise!
Not having the info readily available in my cranium for immediate recall, it was quite a challenge to look up how to switch it back online! lol
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Post by Zim on Mar 23, 2018 15:15:07 GMT -5
So... yesterday I had the laptop... y'know, actually ON MY LAP. Yeah...that's just crazy talk, right? I turned to speak to my smoking hot trophy wife and it started sliding OFF my lap and would have hit the floor if not for my ninja-like reflexes! Problem was, when I grabbed it I hit an unknown random combination of keys that rotated my display 90deg counterclockwise! That wouldn't have been so bad but at the same time my touchpad function somehow got rotated clockwise! Not having the info readily available in my cranium for immediate recall, it was quite a challenge to look up how to switch it back online! lol CTRL-ALT and any of the arrow keys. Always a fun prank to pull on the unsuspecting co-worker when they leave their screen unlocked.
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Post by rjgimp on Mar 23, 2018 16:34:10 GMT -5
Yep. That combination would make sense from *approximately* where I grabbed it. lol
Why would the display rotate one direction and the touchpad rotate the opposite direction?
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Post by dirtgirl (TwinCities,MN) on Mar 24, 2018 22:04:29 GMT -5
Why? Just to make you confused.
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Post by rjgimp on Mar 26, 2018 1:18:17 GMT -5
Why? Just to make you confused. It did do that!
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Post by dirtgirl (TwinCities,MN) on Mar 28, 2018 1:36:13 GMT -5
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Post by hawaii5oh on Mar 29, 2018 8:38:27 GMT -5
A printer with fax should be able to monitor the telephone line for a fax signal and come on line for it. Years ago there were boxes that would recognize what a call was for (voice, modem, fax) and hand the call off properly, so a printer should be able to I would think. The medical field is still a heavy fax user. Is it easier to send a form or some medical record by dropping it in the fax machine than it is to scan it attach it to an E-mail, which has to be printed at the receiving end? I am sure there are many E-mails you have all looked askance at, wondering about it's authenticity, but how many faxes have you gotten that you were suspicious of (not that that really means anything technically)? Historically one of the "paper heavy" departments in any medical office/institution is Medical Records (MR). By law they are still required to archive at least 7 years worth of data. With the advent of digital technology MR began scanning their paper records. With the current technology of Electronic Medical Records, everything is now in the digital realm. With that being said there are some offices and institutions that have still not converted to a pure digital technology hence the need for a fax (at least for now). Of course the footer on the fax header page has some clause about "if this was sent to you in error, please DESTROY this fax". Then again I don't know the rules of HIPAA about sending medical data (accidentally) to a wrong number. Getting back on track... some printers are so cheap now that the cost of the printer cartridge cost more than the printer itself.
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Post by dirtgirl (TwinCities,MN) on Mar 29, 2018 19:40:52 GMT -5
I'm still wondering about the "ninja-like reflexes".
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Post by lightbulb1 on Apr 1, 2018 14:28:00 GMT -5
Where can i find some old processors (cpu) for a friend's school project><>< they do not have to work AMD INTEL it doesn't matter?
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Post by CampKohler (Sacramento CA) on Apr 25, 2018 1:43:35 GMT -5
If you have an E-waste recycling company nearby, you might be able to cadge a couple from them if you give a sufficiently-tearful performance. There are a lot of generations of those things, with the very first ones (8088 and others in the original PCs) having zero sex appeal if you are just looking to have a cool object in a display. As they had the identical appearance with any other big IC, you could get anything (alarm clock chip, adding machine chip, etc.), sand off the printing so as not to trip yourself up, and say this is what the first ones looked like.
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Post by wb6yyz on Apr 29, 2018 13:03:24 GMT -5
I got rid of the separate number for the FAX machine, nobody sends faxes anymore! About the only time my FAX gets used is for one off real estate deals, since real estate people want something closer to a "wet ink" signature. If they need to send a fax to me, we have to schedule it by voice, in other words "Call back and the FAX machine will answer". Followup. I tried to send a FAX the other day and the stupid machine would always jam. Gave up and used the computer to send it through one of the on line FAX services. The machine is now in the electronic recycle pile.
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Post by goldie on May 17, 2018 3:42:30 GMT -5
Firefox upgraded to 60.0.1
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Post by goldie on Jul 23, 2018 15:16:15 GMT -5
HELP! The Microsoft mouse I use with my iMac computer has reversed itself. Now scrolling the wheel toward me scrolls upward instead of down, and vice versa. I just restarted after having done a safe reboot, but I've done that many times and this has not happened before. Also the color I was using for highlighting reverted to the standard blue. This has happened in the past and I don't recall if I manually changed it in preferences or if it eventually went back on its own. It's even more frustrating than having to get used to a car with a shift on the floor after many years of driving one with the transmission shifter behind the steering wheel.
OK, I went into system preferences and saw one for the mouse. I've never set a preference for the mouse before, that I recall. It was set to "natural" and when I changed it, it went back to normal. Scrolling down to go down seems "natural" to me, but whatever, I solved that issue.
But I'm wondering if there is a bigger issue: why did so many preferences change. Earlier when I went to log in to my gmail account it didn't recognize this computer and I had to go through all the validating steps. Is this something to worry about? Are there any steps I should take?
I recently updated to a newer OS version, but not an upgrade to a newer OS. And I must have restarted it after that, so I don't understand why that would only start today. This is confusing to me. Any ideas?
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Post by gth (Columbus OH) on Jul 23, 2018 19:51:05 GMT -5
HELP! The Microsoft mouse I use with my iMac computer has reversed itself. Now scrolling the wheel toward me scrolls upward instead of down, and vice versa. I just restarted after having done a safe reboot, but I've done that many times and this has not happened before. Also the color I was using for highlighting reverted to the standard blue. This has happened in the past and I don't recall if I manually changed it in preferences or if it eventually went back on its own. It's even more frustrating than having to get used to a car with a shift on the floor after many years of driving one with the transmission shifter behind the steering wheel.
OK, I went into system preferences and saw one for the mouse. I've never set a preference for the mouse before, that I recall. It was set to "natural" and when I changed it, it went back to normal. Scrolling down to go down seems "natural" to me, but whatever, I solved that issue.
But I'm wondering if there is a bigger issue: why did so many preferences change. Earlier when I went to log in to my gmail account it didn't recognize this computer and I had to go through all the validating steps. Is this something to worry about? Are there any steps I should take?
I recently updated to a newer OS version, but not an upgrade to a newer OS. And I must have restarted it after that, so I don't understand why that would only start today. This is confusing to me. Any ideas?
I don't know what you mean by "newer OS version" but not "newer OS". If you, say, upgraded from MacOS Sierra to MacOS High Sierra, I could see that the preferences would reset to defaults. Something like that must have happened. And depending on what browser you use to access gmail, that was probably upgraded as well, which "tossed your cookies" (browser cookies, that is) requiring you to revalidate.
Doesn't sound like a big deal.
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