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Saturday, January 29, 2011

Lax is an understatement...but dig this

I know that for quite some time I've been very lax about posting anything to this page.  I guess due to stress, illness, the holiday season, or any combination of the three...would be the reason.  I'm not sure if I'm gonna try to do better, but I thought I actually had something to share tech-wise this time, so here goes:

Printer recommendation:

Next time you're in the market for a new printer, I would highly recommend any of the Kodak line of printers.  For Christmas, my darling wife, Mrs. H, got me a Kodak ESP 5210 all-in-one.  This thing is uber nice!  For starters, it does everything:  prints, copies, and scans.  Secondly, it's a wi-fi printer!  Waaaay kewl.  No cables coming from this thing except the power cord.  It is simply a resident of my wireless network!  I can print from my desktop machine that's hardwired to the router, or wirelessly from the laptop.  Thirdly, the cost of ink!  Ten bucks for black ink, and fourteen bucks for color?  Are you kidding me?!  Get this.  Our church buys the ink for me to print the church bulletins every week.  When I installed this new printer, I still had two (2) black cartridges for the old HP inkjet I was using.  I took those back to the "Evil Empire" (WalMart, for those unaware of their appropriate nickname) and exchanged them for the black ink I needed now.  I got three (3) cartridges for the same dollar amount!!!!  Gonna save the church money, too!  As a fourth plus, the thing was also on sale for $59 + tax.  Not too shabby.  This rig prints gorgeous, lab-quality photos on some Kodak photo paper, as well.  Photo paper is also inexpensive!  I keep waiting for the inevitable pitfall that goes along with printers, where I can say, "See - that's where they get ya!" but as yet, it has NOT happened with this one.

So, hat's off to Kodak!  Very nice printers and software, and due to lower costs of operation and upkeep, they seem to have made printing fun and nice again.  Great job, Kodak!  Check out their printers for yourself.  You'll be glad you did.

God bless and geek on!