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terrycloth...remains futile, as always.
I have a lovely little printer, a Canon BJC-2000. It was cheap, and small, and the ink wasn't too expensive, but it's broken. So I've been going out from store to store and looking for a replacement.
Of course, the exact model doesn't exist anymore, since it's been something like six years. The problem is that every printer I find is either HUGE or 'portable', which means 'expensive and ugly and with teeny weeny ink cartridges'. And now there's the additional scourge of USB printers, which won't work with my old desktop -- it has USB ports, but if you plug anything into them, the computer crashes.
Last night I was bored and went to a Best Buy I'd found earlier, hidden down a sidestreet nearby. And I mean hidden -- I'd driven past it on the main street for years without ever seeing it, until one day I took a wrong turn coming home from Wilburton Hill Park and stumbled across it.
They had one printer that was cheap ($50) and *almost* small enough... but a closer inspection revealed that (a) the ink cartridges cost $35 each, (b) it was USB only, (c) it didn't come with a cord. So... no, not an acceptable choice.
There was *one* printer that was on sale for $10. I'm sure it was a piece of crap, and it was also huge, but what was amusing was the extended warrantee offer on the tag. $10 for the printer, and only $30 for a two-year warrantee!
Anyway, I'm thinking that at this point I have two real options. (1) Buy a huge printer and clear out extra space somehow, or (2) Buy a huge printer and attack it with a hacksaw until it's small enough to fit. Most of the size on these mega-printers seems to be empty space inside.
I have a lovely little printer, a Canon BJC-2000. It was cheap, and small, and the ink wasn't too expensive, but it's broken. So I've been going out from store to store and looking for a replacement.
Of course, the exact model doesn't exist anymore, since it's been something like six years. The problem is that every printer I find is either HUGE or 'portable', which means 'expensive and ugly and with teeny weeny ink cartridges'. And now there's the additional scourge of USB printers, which won't work with my old desktop -- it has USB ports, but if you plug anything into them, the computer crashes.
Last night I was bored and went to a Best Buy I'd found earlier, hidden down a sidestreet nearby. And I mean hidden -- I'd driven past it on the main street for years without ever seeing it, until one day I took a wrong turn coming home from Wilburton Hill Park and stumbled across it.
They had one printer that was cheap ($50) and *almost* small enough... but a closer inspection revealed that (a) the ink cartridges cost $35 each, (b) it was USB only, (c) it didn't come with a cord. So... no, not an acceptable choice.
There was *one* printer that was on sale for $10. I'm sure it was a piece of crap, and it was also huge, but what was amusing was the extended warrantee offer on the tag. $10 for the printer, and only $30 for a two-year warrantee!
Anyway, I'm thinking that at this point I have two real options. (1) Buy a huge printer and clear out extra space somehow, or (2) Buy a huge printer and attack it with a hacksaw until it's small enough to fit. Most of the size on these mega-printers seems to be empty space inside.
