You're a hardware freak. Decoding can be handled in the device driver.
I was not overly pleased then I tried the device driver. I was not overly pleased using the product in readerware as it only decoded the ISBN for data entry and not for searching. I was however pleased at the result of a neutered cuecat that acted like the keyboard wedge that it is.
It's been years since I neutered one, and required one bit of wire and two dabs of solder. But after that is done poof, you have a barcode reader. Comes in handy once and a while.
I've never used a CueCat, but I think a barcode scanner that works with my Mac (hence PS/2 CueCats are no good... ) would be great for selling off a bunch of used books i have online
I got my USB cuecat from IBM. IBM was very hip to the idea of using cuecats for their catalog ordering. It also came with the AudioCue cable which was useless as was only a mono rca to stereo phono connector.
The fundimental idea behind the cuecat was good. Barcodes are everywhere and it seems the next logical step to actually intrigrate with our web browsers to lookup product information. Need more CD-rs, just swipe the bar code off an existing product and poof, you get the same product shipped to you. Catalog ordering seemed less popular for obvious reasons. But commonly ordered supplies... poof ordered in a flash.
But Digital Convergence decided to use broad strokes rather than hitting a nitch market first as demonstrated by companies like Readerware. Had they decided to start smaller and hit mediaphiles before the general public, this would have at the very least defined an application for their product rather than the unanswered question, "What do I need a bar code reader for". People who actually had an interest in creating a database of what they own who were already hip to the concept of web ordering who would gladly trade their demographic preferences for this service and consider recommendations based on what they buy would be useful feature. Oh look you liked "Tank Girl" might we recommend Barbarella available at your local Hollywood video, click to have it ready when you come in, or order it now.
So I say no, the cuecat was far from pointless. It was a good idea executed poorly.
then maybe you should try picture blow-up? and hope to hell there isn't as much marketing for inflatable companions as there apparantly is for penis enlargement...
"Blow-up seattle" doesn't yield the results I desire. Blow-up picture leads me to "The girls and the blow up doll. picture". I got scared when I reached sheep and rhino.
They've already infected my machine! I keep getting pop-ups for penis enlargements! Help!
It's a sick sad world when you go online looking up camera shops trying to price the cost of enlargements and all you get is viagra, cialis, misc herbs and spices related to penis, smiling bob, and double polaroids.
"I'm big and clever! I know how to type that 'æ' symbol properly. Neh neh neh neh-neh neh!" (^_^)
Or I checked an episode list to make sure we were talking about early Pertwee "The Dæmons" rather than some other episode titled "Daemons" or some such, copy and pasted the correct 'æ". For example one could say "Robot" the first Tom Baker Episode, or The Robots of Death a later Tom Baker with Lela onboard. So no points for being clever but a few points for being accurate. I half recall the title sequence using the "æ" character so it seemed important. And it makes it easier to look it up on wiki that way... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_D%E6mons
Basically, they had a decent quality black-and-white film transfer *and* some low-quality colour VHS tapes recorded from an American TV transmission in the late 1970s (IIRC). They used the NTSC colour VHSs to colourise the black-and-white film (the eye's colour resolution being much lower than that for detail).
Did they actually use bad VHS editions, rather than Umatic, 3/4 r2r, or 1inch (EBC B/C) tape? I remember that my local pbs station (KBTC) as well as copies I got from KWHO showed the early Pertwees in color in the mid/late 1980s, but after 1989 their new editions were B&W. Other Who fans found it unbelieveable that I could have seen "Spearhead From Space" in colour as it simply didn't exist according to the BBC. The only fan copies I was aware of were from an an early front loading VCR which were only playable on it as it chewed up the tracking segment on the tape.
I would think they would have asked for the broadcast tapes, which I doubt were VHS, back to do a copy... unless all those were lost in which case they would have had to use VHS copies fans made from the broadcast post 1980 when it became a consumer standard. I don't know how popular VHS was between 1976 and 1980 before it became a home standard, but U-matic was the choice option of studios and would have been around when Pertwee was still playing the doctor. But you could be right, for all I know they could have found a fan with off the air copies and used them.
You've not been paying attention, then. I've spent (and saved) a lot of money on buying things from the US that I would not have been able to afford except the dollar was down to about 60p; even with postage, it's been worth it. The dollar has pulled back a bit now, but we were very close to £1=$2 for a while.
I looked into buying my Canon printer over in the UK, where the CD feature is enabled. I saw it was fetching £90 with VAT but not shipping cross the pond which would add £30. I checked the local price, and the price was £35 shipped without rebates, £25 with a rebate. To put in the USD $166 plus $50... or $65, maybe $45 if I get the rebate.
Given that the UK tax payer funds the program I'm reasonably sure it isn't as commercialised as whatever you have in America.
Sigh...
Doctor Who as well as other material from the BBC is typicaly carried on PBS (public broadcast system). A "private, non-profit media enterprise owned noncommercial television network". It is publicly and privatly funded, and is reasonably commercial free. In the past a corporate sponcership might result in a brief little blip noting their contribution. "This program is brought to you in part by The Acme Corporation makers of widgets. And by viewers like you." These days watching the Yankee Workshop you get a slightly longer commercial spot preceeding the show followed by the commercial free program. I can forgive them for showing an advert for power tools before a wood working program, but they couldn't forgive Bob Vila for promoting Sears Craftsmen tools. It's mostly educational, but a good deal of time is dedicated to arts and entertainment including drama and foreign programing.
PBS operates via donations rather than a mandatory tax. Further you can pledge genericaly, money for specific shows any time, or wait for pledge drive and get a spiffy gift which might be a copy of the program on VHS/DVD/CD.
In other words, for material on PBS, we not only pay for the program just like you, we choose to pay for the program. And we see the program from beginning to end without breaks.
Currently Doctor Who in N. America is carried only by CBC, Canadian Broadcasting Corp. CBC is commercial television and isn't seen by most of America. It is common for those living near the border to be able to receive it, and some American cable networks carry it. But for the most part, America is currently Wholess commercial or otherwise.
After watching the CBC documentary, Verity Lambert (the first producer) states that she was asked to create Doctor Who through the BBC drama department. I assume that since she produced the show, she'd know what department she was in.
You would think. Bureaucracies are funny things though with departments that are not necessarily divided by obvious borders. You notice this when playing phone tag and if you say it in a firm enough way, you can convience someone they are responcible for an entirely different department and stop passing the buck.
But I will watch your link, followed up by Dimensions in Time. It will either help to resolve my confusion on the issue, or serve to add to it.
WRT the special effects on the old series, bear in mind that the televisions were much worse then. Try watching them on an analogue grainy black and white 14-inch telly and the Daemons look pretty darn good...
Speak for your self, I can assure you that in America televisions are just as bad as they were then. During the early 80s my only access to Doctor Who was when I was visiting my Aunt in Philly, and the only way to tune it in was using a 12inch B&W with a coat hanger arial as the local cable company didn't carry that particular PBS. And I have to say a spotty B&W coat hanger arial disused spair guest TV didn't improve the quality of the visual effects. On this issue I can not agree.
Also Dæmons was part of the Jon Pertwee era which was first shown in color. I can't remember if the color version of this was lost, or if it was re-colored based on the NTSC version.
The show was a BBC Drama output. They wouldn't have spent so much money on it if it was just a kids show.
It had a budget? Part of it's charm was the ultra cheap special effects. In the early days it had it's moments as in Marco Polo, and others where they seemed to be penny pinching as in Edge of Destruction aka inside the space shop.
Perhaps it's my foreign perspective observing that you lot have much more in the way of respect for children and are less prone to be condescending, and have television dedicated to the teething market. I don't see it unreasonable to put money into a kids show. Yes I see it as having a higher budget than Captain Pugwash for example, which I believe had a voice that sounded very much like Peter Hawkins as a Dalek. Do correct me if i'm wrong on that point.
I could be wrong... I think i'm remembering this from Dimensions in Time, but i'm not positive... but to me it's still looking like a production for kids that evolved over a short time to a drama less than education.
Actually, no it wasn't. The show was produced by the BBC Drama Department from 1963 to 1989 and was never part of the "kids department".
I'd have to review the documentaries, but the ones I've seen made references to kids show, kids department / educational department. I also seem to remember the same documentary spoke about much pressure regarding the use of monsters disguised as policemen saying, "you can tell children there are no such thing as monsters, but you can't tell them there are no such things as policemen".
I'd love to get my facts right but everything I've seen sugests kids and education even though it has long since evolved beyond a vehicle to visit history.
Maybe I'm just looking at the old series through rose coloured glasses, but I much preffered it to the new one.
The writing of Doctor Who really started to decline tward the end of the Sylvester McCoy era. I liked Sylvester McCoy but the writing was a touch lackluster. Others may argue that this started post Tom Baker. I must admit Peter Davison made a very lethargic Doctor. Colin Baker I liked dispite the fact he came across as an arrogant bastard. The whole Trial of a Time Lord, while looking very much like they picked up the scraps of two incomplete stories and copy and pasted them into three, did a good job of making us look at him and say he's not all bad. I would have loved to see a complete series of Paul Mcgann, but the one TV movie was all flash and no substance.
In way way you are wearing Rose colored glasses. But part of Doctor Who's charm was the fact that they didn't resort to crude bodily fuction humor and treated sexuality in a very respectful tasteful way. The current series has already made reference to breast implants, homosexuality, getting a room, and other aspects of humanity never touched on before. I have yet to decide whether this is a good or bad thing.
Also, I find much of the impact that the original series had is lost though having 45min start-to-finish episodes. One of the best things about the old series was the great cliffhangers.
Expect cliff hangers here and there. This current season has 3 out of 13 episodes. I agree I like the old style, but I can live with the current one.
In the UK, they are all being released immediately. In fact, the first half of the season has already been released. In the US, no luck so far besides BitTorrent.
Doesn't amazon.co.uk ship to the US?
And the last time I checked, you could get DVD player that does pal for under $50, in fact saw one for $20.00 on close out.
Am I alone in being turned off by excessive commercialism?
Part of the reason I enjoyed Doctor Who in the first place was it was produced by the BBC, non-commercial television, and shown in America on PBS, non-commercial television. To answer your question you are not the only one turned off by seeing VW every time you see a CBC Who reference.
It has shown us that special effects ought to be well done instead of looking like a 2nd grade art contest.
Keep in mind it was slated to be a kid's show and was part of the kids department till 1989. In fact, I know I watched a documentary where in the 60s they had a contest who could create the most scarry monster. Strangely enough the results of turning over the design department to a bunch of 2nd grade students worked rather well and I, a Doctor Who fan, wouldn't have noticed the difference.
Plus according some review I read, it's pretty stingy on ink compared to other printers. I've never been disapointed with a single Canon product I've purchased, they actually some with good printed manuals.
I can say with all that for every 12oz of ink I put in my Epson, about 2oz was purged if not more. I haven't found a method to measure the canon's waste ink but I can see looking inside that it's not the big sloppy mess the Epson was.
Pixus = Pixma. There even is a service mode feature that would allow you to select Pixus, the same place that would allow you to enable CD printing.
Off, +resume +power -resume 2x resume -power 1x resume 1x power = test print 2x resume 1x power = rom info 5x resume 1x = destination
-resume x then power 1x. - 1 times Pixus iPx100 Japan - 2 times Not Japan no CD-r support a4 paper - 3 times Not Japan No CD-R support letter paper - 4 times Not Japan CD-R support a4 paper - 5 times Not Japan CD-R support letter paper - 6 times you wish to abort and get back to the first menu Power, power, poof.
I haven't tried the drivers yet, but since I got rid of my HP it'll be required soon.
Now if someone had the service manual for the mP760 to enable the same feature i'd be jumping for joy.
Two problems... the ink smelled -- like rotten eggs. You could smell it if a printed page was on the desk, and you were standing two feet away. Other problem was worse: clogged the "high-quality" but non-replaceable printheads in the printer. So I had to buy a new printer... went with a cannon because their 1st-party ink is cheaper. (a little, anyway)
I buy MIS inks, i've used roughly 4oz of each color in my Epson r200. They do not smell like rotten eggs. In all fairness I must say my head clogged. But given the fact that I spent $60.00 on ink the equilivent of over 9 OEM replacements which could have cost over $675 in stores. But on the other hand, the Epson started to on the first set of OEM carts, they heads I do believe clog at a drop of a hat, and I believe the refillable carts I bought were at fault. And final printer failure was due to diaper overflow, the waste tube comming loose, the head pad being nocked out of place, and a very annoying tendancy to spit ink in any old place on powerup.
Needless to say I also went with a Canon after this experence. At least with the Canon you "could" replace the head or printer if need be, and the cost savings is very much justified. With Epson, you could just replace the printer and the cost would be justified.
I know, for example, that inksupply.com offers continuous flow ink systems that use some tube connections to feed the cartridge directly from bottles of ink. (but they currently only support Epson)
There is much more support for Epson CIS systems than Canon. The only place outside of e-bay that sold CIS canon kits was www.colorbat.com. They stopped making the "Canon Weasel Widget" because, "I'm simply tired of trying to deal with folks who buy things, can't figure out how to use them, and then want their money back". Canon is more ideal to the DIY than Epson.
HP comes out with an array of new cartridges for its printers. New HP inkjets have 4 20$ cartridges to purchase! And their low-end models break on the first paper jam.
I'm not up on HPs, but I rather thought that the gray cart was optional. Besides, this is roughly equal to Epson with their 6 color printers.
To go with your theme. The Epsons are designed with a diaper and software that blinks "need service" at what I would estimate as one year, requiring a $60 service call. Above average users get a head clog get a free diaper change or free replacement with ink.
You can get decent camcorders (Panasonic PV-53) off ebay for $100, why bother with this POS?
Camcorder +PC +firewire (if pc has none) +dvd burner +media = A good deal more than $50.00 and requires much less skill. Unless you know of someplace that'll convert DV to DVD for under $10 a pop.
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You're a hardware freak. Decoding can be handled in the device driver.
I was not overly pleased then I tried the device driver. I was not overly pleased using the product in readerware as it only decoded the ISBN for data entry and not for searching. I was however pleased at the result of a neutered cuecat that acted like the keyboard wedge that it is.
Even better, buy 2 million, hack them, and sell then as a barcode reader for $5 each!
Feel free. They are useless unlike you neuter the cuecat as they were designed to encode the output.
The last page with info on the cuecat was http://www.flyingbuttmonkeys.com/cuecat/
It's been years since I neutered one, and required one bit of wire and two dabs of solder. But after that is done poof, you have a barcode reader. Comes in handy once and a while.
I've never used a CueCat, but I think a barcode scanner that works with my Mac (hence PS/2 CueCats are no good... ) would be great for selling off a bunch of used books i have online
I got my USB cuecat from IBM. IBM was very hip to the idea of using cuecats for their catalog ordering. It also came with the AudioCue cable which was useless as was only a mono rca to stereo phono connector.
The fundimental idea behind the cuecat was good. Barcodes are everywhere and it seems the next logical step to actually intrigrate with our web browsers to lookup product information. Need more CD-rs, just swipe the bar code off an existing product and poof, you get the same product shipped to you. Catalog ordering seemed less popular for obvious reasons. But commonly ordered supplies... poof ordered in a flash.
But Digital Convergence decided to use broad strokes rather than hitting a nitch market first as demonstrated by companies like Readerware. Had they decided to start smaller and hit mediaphiles before the general public, this would have at the very least defined an application for their product rather than the unanswered question, "What do I need a bar code reader for". People who actually had an interest in creating a database of what they own who were already hip to the concept of web ordering who would gladly trade their demographic preferences for this service and consider recommendations based on what they buy would be useful feature. Oh look you liked "Tank Girl" might we recommend Barbarella available at your local Hollywood video, click to have it ready when you come in, or order it now.
So I say no, the cuecat was far from pointless. It was a good idea executed poorly.
AudioCues are another story.
then maybe you should try picture blow-up? and hope to hell there isn't as much marketing for inflatable companions as there apparantly is for penis enlargement...
"Blow-up seattle" doesn't yield the results I desire. Blow-up picture leads me to "The girls and the blow up doll. picture". I got scared when I reached sheep and rhino.
There is no escape, from the porn.
They've already infected my machine! I keep getting pop-ups for penis enlargements! Help!
It's a sick sad world when you go online looking up camera shops trying to price the cost of enlargements and all you get is viagra, cialis, misc herbs and spices related to penis, smiling bob, and double polaroids.
"I'm big and clever! I know how to type that 'æ' symbol properly. Neh neh neh neh-neh neh!" (^_^)
Or I checked an episode list to make sure we were talking about early Pertwee "The Dæmons" rather than some other episode titled "Daemons" or some such, copy and pasted the correct 'æ". For example one could say "Robot" the first Tom Baker Episode, or The Robots of Death a later Tom Baker with Lela onboard. So no points for being clever but a few points for being accurate. I half recall the title sequence using the "æ" character so it seemed important. And it makes it easier to look it up on wiki that way...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_D%E6mons
Basically, they had a decent quality black-and-white film transfer *and* some low-quality colour VHS tapes recorded from an American TV transmission in the late 1970s (IIRC). They used the NTSC colour VHSs to colourise the black-and-white film (the eye's colour resolution being much lower than that for detail).
Did they actually use bad VHS editions, rather than Umatic, 3/4 r2r, or 1inch (EBC B/C) tape? I remember that my local pbs station (KBTC) as well as copies I got from KWHO showed the early Pertwees in color in the mid/late 1980s, but after 1989 their new editions were B&W. Other Who fans found it unbelieveable that I could have seen "Spearhead From Space" in colour as it simply didn't exist according to the BBC. The only fan copies I was aware of were from an an early front loading VCR which were only playable on it as it chewed up the tracking segment on the tape.
I would think they would have asked for the broadcast tapes, which I doubt were VHS, back to do a copy... unless all those were lost in which case they would have had to use VHS copies fans made from the broadcast post 1980 when it became a consumer standard. I don't know how popular VHS was between 1976 and 1980 before it became a home standard, but U-matic was the choice option of studios and would have been around when Pertwee was still playing the doctor. But you could be right, for all I know they could have found a fan with off the air copies and used them.
You've not been paying attention, then. I've spent (and saved) a lot of money on buying things from the US that I would not have been able to afford except the dollar was down to about 60p; even with postage, it's been worth it. The dollar has pulled back a bit now, but we were very close to £1=$2 for a while.
I looked into buying my Canon printer over in the UK, where the CD feature is enabled. I saw it was fetching £90 with VAT but not shipping cross the pond which would add £30. I checked the local price, and the price was £35 shipped without rebates, £25 with a rebate. To put in the USD $166 plus $50... or $65, maybe $45 if I get the rebate.
Given that the UK tax payer funds the program I'm reasonably sure it isn't as commercialised as whatever you have in America.
Sigh...
Doctor Who as well as other material from the BBC is typicaly carried on PBS (public broadcast system). A "private, non-profit media enterprise owned noncommercial television network". It is publicly and privatly funded, and is reasonably commercial free. In the past a corporate sponcership might result in a brief little blip noting their contribution. "This program is brought to you in part by The Acme Corporation makers of widgets. And by viewers like you." These days watching the Yankee Workshop you get a slightly longer commercial spot preceeding the show followed by the commercial free program. I can forgive them for showing an advert for power tools before a wood working program, but they couldn't forgive Bob Vila for promoting Sears Craftsmen tools. It's mostly educational, but a good deal of time is dedicated to arts and entertainment including drama and foreign programing.
PBS operates via donations rather than a mandatory tax. Further you can pledge genericaly, money for specific shows any time, or wait for pledge drive and get a spiffy gift which might be a copy of the program on VHS/DVD/CD.
In other words, for material on PBS, we not only pay for the program just like you, we choose to pay for the program. And we see the program from beginning to end without breaks.
http://www.pbs.org/aboutpbs/
Currently Doctor Who in N. America is carried only by CBC, Canadian Broadcasting Corp. CBC is commercial television and isn't seen by most of America. It is common for those living near the border to be able to receive it, and some American cable networks carry it. But for the most part, America is currently Wholess commercial or otherwise.
After watching the CBC documentary, Verity Lambert (the first producer) states that she was asked to create Doctor Who through the BBC drama department. I assume that since she produced the show, she'd know what department she was in.
You would think. Bureaucracies are funny things though with departments that are not necessarily divided by obvious borders. You notice this when playing phone tag and if you say it in a firm enough way, you can convience someone they are responcible for an entirely different department and stop passing the buck.
But I will watch your link, followed up by Dimensions in Time. It will either help to resolve my confusion on the issue, or serve to add to it.
WRT the special effects on the old series, bear in mind that the televisions were much worse then. Try watching them on an analogue grainy black and white 14-inch telly and the Daemons look pretty darn good...
Speak for your self, I can assure you that in America televisions are just as bad as they were then. During the early 80s my only access to Doctor Who was when I was visiting my Aunt in Philly, and the only way to tune it in was using a 12inch B&W with a coat hanger arial as the local cable company didn't carry that particular PBS. And I have to say a spotty B&W coat hanger arial disused spair guest TV didn't improve the quality of the visual effects. On this issue I can not agree.
Also Dæmons was part of the Jon Pertwee era which was first shown in color. I can't remember if the color version of this was lost, or if it was re-colored based on the NTSC version.
The show was a BBC Drama output. They wouldn't have spent so much money on it if it was just a kids show.
It had a budget? Part of it's charm was the ultra cheap special effects. In the early days it had it's moments as in Marco Polo, and others where they seemed to be penny pinching as in Edge of Destruction aka inside the space shop.
Perhaps it's my foreign perspective observing that you lot have much more in the way of respect for children and are less prone to be condescending, and have television dedicated to the teething market. I don't see it unreasonable to put money into a kids show. Yes I see it as having a higher budget than Captain Pugwash for example, which I believe had a voice that sounded very much like Peter Hawkins as a Dalek. Do correct me if i'm wrong on that point.
I could be wrong... I think i'm remembering this from Dimensions in Time, but i'm not positive... but to me it's still looking like a production for kids that evolved over a short time to a drama less than education.
Actually, no it wasn't. The show was produced by the BBC Drama Department from 1963 to 1989 and was never part of the "kids department".
I'd have to review the documentaries, but the ones I've seen made references to kids show, kids department / educational department. I also seem to remember the same documentary spoke about much pressure regarding the use of monsters disguised as policemen saying, "you can tell children there are no such thing as monsters, but you can't tell them there are no such things as policemen".
I'd love to get my facts right but everything I've seen sugests kids and education even though it has long since evolved beyond a vehicle to visit history.
Maybe I'm just looking at the old series through rose coloured glasses, but I much preffered it to the new one.
The writing of Doctor Who really started to decline tward the end of the Sylvester McCoy era. I liked Sylvester McCoy but the writing was a touch lackluster. Others may argue that this started post Tom Baker. I must admit Peter Davison made a very lethargic Doctor. Colin Baker I liked dispite the fact he came across as an arrogant bastard. The whole Trial of a Time Lord, while looking very much like they picked up the scraps of two incomplete stories and copy and pasted them into three, did a good job of making us look at him and say he's not all bad. I would have loved to see a complete series of Paul Mcgann, but the one TV movie was all flash and no substance.
In way way you are wearing Rose colored glasses. But part of Doctor Who's charm was the fact that they didn't resort to crude bodily fuction humor and treated sexuality in a very respectful tasteful way. The current series has already made reference to breast implants, homosexuality, getting a room, and other aspects of humanity never touched on before. I have yet to decide whether this is a good or bad thing.
Also, I find much of the impact that the original series had is lost though having 45min start-to-finish episodes. One of the best things about the old series was the great cliffhangers.
Expect cliff hangers here and there. This current season has 3 out of 13 episodes. I agree I like the old style, but I can live with the current one.
I knew something was wrong about catching the rainbow
No no no.
Catching the rainbow results in a leprecon who might have a pot of gold.
Tasting the rainbow, Skittles moto, might get you 5 to 10.
In the UK, they are all being released immediately. In fact, the first half of the season has already been released. In the US, no luck so far besides BitTorrent.
Doesn't amazon.co.uk ship to the US?
And the last time I checked, you could get DVD player that does pal for under $50, in fact saw one for $20.00 on close out.
Am I alone in being turned off by excessive commercialism?
Part of the reason I enjoyed Doctor Who in the first place was it was produced by the BBC, non-commercial television, and shown in America on PBS, non-commercial television. To answer your question you are not the only one turned off by seeing VW every time you see a CBC Who reference.
If you are trully interested in the subject see http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/
No commercials, no Volkswagons.
It has shown us that special effects ought to be well done instead of looking like a 2nd grade art contest.
Keep in mind it was slated to be a kid's show and was part of the kids department till 1989. In fact, I know I watched a documentary where in the 60s they had a contest who could create the most scarry monster. Strangely enough the results of turning over the design department to a bunch of 2nd grade students worked rather well and I, a Doctor Who fan, wouldn't have noticed the difference.
Plus according some review I read, it's pretty stingy on ink compared to other printers. I've never been disapointed with a single Canon product I've purchased, they actually some with good printed manuals.
I can say with all that for every 12oz of ink I put in my Epson, about 2oz was purged if not more. I haven't found a method to measure the canon's waste ink but I can see looking inside that it's not the big sloppy mess the Epson was.
I couldn't find free linux drivers
ftp://download.canon.jp/pub/driver/bj/linux/
Pixus = Pixma. There even is a service mode feature that would allow you to select Pixus, the same place that would allow you to enable CD printing.
Off, +resume +power -resume 2x resume -power
1x resume 1x power = test print
2x resume 1x power = rom info
5x resume 1x = destination
-resume x then power 1x.
- 1 times Pixus iPx100 Japan
- 2 times Not Japan no CD-r support a4 paper
- 3 times Not Japan No CD-R support letter paper
- 4 times Not Japan CD-R support a4 paper
- 5 times Not Japan CD-R support letter paper
- 6 times you wish to abort and get back to the first menu
Power, power, poof.
I haven't tried the drivers yet, but since I got rid of my HP it'll be required soon.
Now if someone had the service manual for the mP760 to enable the same feature i'd be jumping for joy.
Two problems... the ink smelled -- like rotten eggs. You could smell it if a printed page was on the desk, and you were standing two feet away. Other problem was worse: clogged the "high-quality" but non-replaceable printheads in the printer. So I had to buy a new printer... went with a cannon because their 1st-party ink is cheaper. (a little, anyway)
I buy MIS inks, i've used roughly 4oz of each color in my Epson r200. They do not smell like rotten eggs. In all fairness I must say my head clogged. But given the fact that I spent $60.00 on ink the equilivent of over 9 OEM replacements which could have cost over $675 in stores. But on the other hand, the Epson started to on the first set of OEM carts, they heads I do believe clog at a drop of a hat, and I believe the refillable carts I bought were at fault. And final printer failure was due to diaper overflow, the waste tube comming loose, the head pad being nocked out of place, and a very annoying tendancy to spit ink in any old place on powerup.
Needless to say I also went with a Canon after this experence. At least with the Canon you "could" replace the head or printer if need be, and the cost savings is very much justified. With Epson, you could just replace the printer and the cost would be justified.
I know, for example, that inksupply.com offers continuous flow ink systems that use some tube connections to feed the cartridge directly from bottles of ink. (but they currently only support Epson)
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There is much more support for Epson CIS systems than Canon. The only place outside of e-bay that sold CIS canon kits was www.colorbat.com. They stopped making the "Canon Weasel Widget" because, "I'm simply tired of trying to deal with folks who buy things, can't figure out how to use them, and then want their money back". Canon is more ideal to the DIY than Epson.
-Epson cart Deutch-
http://www.enderlin-direkt.com/spa/modules.php?op
Those interested may checkout these pages
http://www.colorbat.com/constructiontips.htm
http://www.neilslade.com/Papers/inkjetstuff7.html
http://www.colorbat.com/cfsparts.htm
http://www.inksupply.com/cfsparts.cfm
Does it have a Linux driver? Yeah, Canon, I'm looking at you.
I look at Canon
Canon looks back at me
ftp://download.canon.jp/pub/driver/bj/linux/
I look back at you and shrug
HP comes out with an array of new cartridges for its printers. New HP inkjets have 4 20$ cartridges to purchase! And their low-end models break on the first paper jam.
I'm not up on HPs, but I rather thought that the gray cart was optional. Besides, this is roughly equal to Epson with their 6 color printers.
To go with your theme. The Epsons are designed with a diaper and software that blinks "need service" at what I would estimate as one year, requiring a $60 service call. Above average users get a head clog get a free diaper change or free replacement with ink.
I am presently least offended by HP can Canon.
I am disappointed that I will not be able to boycott Lexmark printers -- I already won't buy Lexmark because I think that they are pieces of shit.
Wouldn't it be worse for Lexmark if you got or bought their printers without buying ink?
You can get decent camcorders (Panasonic PV-53) off ebay for $100, why bother with this POS?
Camcorder
+PC
+firewire (if pc has none)
+dvd burner
+media
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A good deal more than $50.00 and requires much less skill. Unless you know of someplace that'll convert DV to DVD for under $10 a pop.