printer etc

[jazzfish]

One of the things I got for Xmas was a new printer. I already had a printer, sort of. The paper feed is broken to the point that I have to feed it each sheet individually, and it has a bad habit of leaving faint black streaks on the page for no apparent reason. I would have stuck with it anyway (I only print things once in a blue moon) but its only input port is a parallel port, which I'm not even sure there's space for on the body of my current laptop.

So I have a new printer. It's a very nice USB monochrome laserjet that claims to be able to print upwards of twenty pages per minute once it gets going. I can verify that it does take awhile to get going, and also that it draws enough power to make the lights in my room flicker. (Things I am looking forward to in six months: modern electrical wiring.) We ran through some of the initial paperwork for Secret Project Paper last night. It turned out really well. I'm happy to have this printer, even if I don't know how often I'm going to be using it.

This morning I woke up earlier than one ought to wake up on a weekend so that I could cook pancakes for uilos. She's heading off for a weekend of Longwood Gardens and jellyfish with other folk. I would have gone along but I'm in desperate need of a quiet weekend at home. So instead I shall lounge around here for awhile, then stop by the post office, and head off to gaming with Chris-the-repatriated. Tomorrow is almost certainly going to involve not setting foot outside and getting a good day's worth of writing (well, revising) for the first time since November. Unless I decide it's a fine day for Secret Project Gethen.

... although it seems to be snowing pretty seriously out there. Which is appropriate for something called Secret Project Gethen, but I think I'll just put it off til another day.

And I'd thought this was going to be more coherent than it ended up being. I may as well throw in a link to Nix v. Hedden, in which the US Supreme Court ruled on one of the vital issues of the day. (Premonitions of "Pigs is Pigs".)

Comments

[voltbang.livejournal.com]

My printer is slow-ish, but makes pretty prints. One review of it said they couldn't give a real speed factor for it, because it launches into it's cleaning cycle very very often, and that randomizes the time any print job will take. I've seen it do it's cleaning cycle twice in a single 4x6 photo. But my priority is print quality and I don't care about speed at all.

Interesting court ruling. Have you seen http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haynes_v._United_States
tomatos are vegetables, and felons can not be prosecuted for breaking this part of this law.

[jazzfish]

Makes sense. I expect to be using this one mainly for text. Image quality matters a bit less when it's just a matter of how sharp the font looks, and it's nice knowing that if I ever /do/ need to print a novel it won't take me all day. (Also, it's cheap and laserjet, which were my main criteria.)

Ha! I'd not seen that, and am amused. And pleasantly surprised.