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So, on Tuesday last week, I tried to print stuff for Gencon. The first document printed, the rest (including text from notepad) did not. Instead, they came out of the printer as gobbledygook control symbols.
Grrrr, says I. So I reboot the computer, power the printer off and on, reload the driver, etc., etc. Some before I leave, some after I get back. Net result: it still prints gobbledygook, even after trying the black-and-white printing only (it's a color printer).
I debated the effort involved in rehabilitating it, and decided that it was time to get something newer. To which end, I now have an Epson Stylus C84; amusingly, since all I want to do most days is print basic black and white stuff, this thing is theoretically capable of printing very nice quality photo prints. I'll test it on that later for my amusement, but it wasn't really the point. I'd have to print a lot more pages than I do for it to have made sense to get black and white.
Also picked up a digicam for Scott. His present one (he's using my old Ricoh) only focuses when on maximum zoom or, on rare occasions, when it feels like it at other settings. The one I got him is not one I'd use, but it's quite functional and nice for what he uses a camera for - about on a par with the Ricoh, with a few less options but more "modes" which I think will do better. It'll even use the same batteries - and though it won't use the same media, it'll use my compactflash media, which I can give him one of. I didn't even use 512 of my 1.25 gig of media on that trip. Scott, by contrast, took three pictures - though I think he'd have likely taken a few more if his camera were not a nuisance. ;)
Grrrr, says I. So I reboot the computer, power the printer off and on, reload the driver, etc., etc. Some before I leave, some after I get back. Net result: it still prints gobbledygook, even after trying the black-and-white printing only (it's a color printer).
I debated the effort involved in rehabilitating it, and decided that it was time to get something newer. To which end, I now have an Epson Stylus C84; amusingly, since all I want to do most days is print basic black and white stuff, this thing is theoretically capable of printing very nice quality photo prints. I'll test it on that later for my amusement, but it wasn't really the point. I'd have to print a lot more pages than I do for it to have made sense to get black and white.
Also picked up a digicam for Scott. His present one (he's using my old Ricoh) only focuses when on maximum zoom or, on rare occasions, when it feels like it at other settings. The one I got him is not one I'd use, but it's quite functional and nice for what he uses a camera for - about on a par with the Ricoh, with a few less options but more "modes" which I think will do better. It'll even use the same batteries - and though it won't use the same media, it'll use my compactflash media, which I can give him one of. I didn't even use 512 of my 1.25 gig of media on that trip. Scott, by contrast, took three pictures - though I think he'd have likely taken a few more if his camera were not a nuisance. ;)
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And I do like this new Epson, rather a lot.
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