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    ADF reacted to mr moose in Recommended Printer?   
    It's a printer, the multi functions are pretty much all with bull spit of each other for quality.  If I had to buy another tomorrow it would be one of these.   Hell, I have saved so much by using cheap ebay ink from china that if the machine dies after 2 years I will still be in front (not that I like the ecology of the situation). 
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    ADF reacted to mr moose in Recommended Printer?   
    I personally have these and love them:
     
    https://www.productreview.com.au/listings/brother-mfc-j432w
     
    The panel on the side holds refillable ink cartridges/tanks.  There are no electronics in the cartridge at all and you can refill with whatever ink you want.   They do a very good job on photo paper (obviously not as good as as dedicated photo printer) and the scanner etc are all good.   Cheap to run with generic ink, no re-flashing or worrying about chips in cartridges. and not too hard on the pocket.
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    ADF reacted to dizmo in Recommended Printer?   
    Honestly, don't bother getting an all in one expecting to print photos. If you want to print photos get a proper Canon Pixma printer. 
  4. Funny
    ADF reacted to Bombastinator in Recommended Printer?   
    Heh.  That’s not how it used to be.  Once upon a time HP ran the razor blade model.  They sold the printers at a loss but the ink was something like twice it’s weight in gold and they went nuts trying to keep you from using other brands.  Cannon didn’t do it that way.  The printers cost 4 times as much but the ink was affordable.  I don’t know if color ink got archival or not.  For non archival ink yellow went first and blue went last.  Eventually all that is left is this weird faded thing that is nothing but blue and looks only vaguely like a picture.  Takes a while. For really really archival (100years+) the only yellow that worked was cadmium.  Horrifically poisonous.  Dunno if they fixed that one or not.
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    ADF reacted to atxcyclist in Recommended Printer?   
    I recommend Canon printers for a few reasons:
     
    -3rd party ink off Amazon always works
    -Driver stability seems to be better than other printer brands
    -Printer longevity is good, on-par with HP for sure
    -Printer cost is typically less than HP
     
    Now, if you want decent photo reproduction, you might have a tough time getting that in a multi-function that will also scan. There might be some high-end multi-functions that do well with both prints and scans, but a dedicated photo printer is much better. I have a Canon Pro-100 at work that I print photos on, it's superb.
     
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    ADF reacted to Bombastinator in Recommended Printer?   
    Some of this might be helpful.  A lot of it is just plain out-of-date.
     
    Haven’t looked at photo quality color printing in a long while, but it used to be the only thing to use was large format specialized cannon inkjet or go to a service.  The photo quality paper had a special gel finish on it to keep the dots round and it wasn’t even remotely cheap.  There was and probably still is also serious archival issues that need to be kept in mind.  Photos want to last a long time and coal lake dyes fade.  Dyes that don’t fade exist but they’re wildly expensive.  To make it more fun inkjets need to be used regularly or they dry out.  All in all it’s kind of a big mess.  An art quality printer that does business printing isn’t going to do either one particularly well and is liable to be quite expensive.
     
    Like I said, I’m out of date, but if you’re “just getting into it” I’d say at least for the moment concentrate on the business issues for a printer and outsource the hard copy art stuff until you know you’re going to actually be doing enough of it for it to make sense.
     
    If you print regularly but don’t actually print that much inkjet may be the winner.  If you do a LOT of printing or you don’t print often home laser might be preferred.  I’m in the second group so I got home laser.  I can leave the thing sit for 3 months and if I need a form or something boom there it is.  I didn’t even bother getting color.  I’ve also got an old inkjet art printer.  Cost more than the laser printer/scanner/fax thing I got now.  It’s around somewhere.  Huge thing.  I suspect I can’t even get cartridge for it anymore and the ones I’ve got are dry and dead. 
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    ADF got a reaction from Results45 in Prototype Xbox controllers for phones and tablets   
    Summary:  Microsoft is experimenting with and has patented gaming controllers for mobile devises IE phones, tablets.  The controllers could be used to game on mobile devises using the XCLOUD streaming service giving consumers greater mobility and opening up the market to anyone with a phone or tablet. 
     
     
     
    Sources:  https://www.theverge.com/2019/7/9/20687750/microsoft-xbox-controller-phones-tablets-prototype-xcloud
    https://hypebeast.com/2019/7/microsoft-xbox-controller-prototype-phone-tablet-mobile-games-nintendo-switch
    https://www.techradar.com/news/prototype-xbox-controllers-for-phones-and-tablets-show-up-in-research-papers
    http://www.freepatentsonline.com/10348108.pdf
     
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    ADF got a reaction from Taf the Ghost in Prototype Xbox controllers for phones and tablets   
    Summary:  Microsoft is experimenting with and has patented gaming controllers for mobile devises IE phones, tablets.  The controllers could be used to game on mobile devises using the XCLOUD streaming service giving consumers greater mobility and opening up the market to anyone with a phone or tablet. 
     
     
     
    Sources:  https://www.theverge.com/2019/7/9/20687750/microsoft-xbox-controller-phones-tablets-prototype-xcloud
    https://hypebeast.com/2019/7/microsoft-xbox-controller-prototype-phone-tablet-mobile-games-nintendo-switch
    https://www.techradar.com/news/prototype-xbox-controllers-for-phones-and-tablets-show-up-in-research-papers
    http://www.freepatentsonline.com/10348108.pdf
     
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