Which printer?

[iris lilies]

You said you looked up your old Brother printer, what happened to that? What model is it?
Do you have Amazon prime?
Office Depot/max in town?

My old printer is not wireless nor it is a scanner/copier.

today I ordered a Brother printer from
Amazon after finding one with “free” shipping. I suppose the ship cost is folded in, but it was same price to pick up at Best Buy.

But I look with trepidation upon installing it.

[jp1]

I realize I'm very late to the game here but do have a couple of thoughts. One, if you print rarely, as do I, laserjet is a much better choice. I'm using a 15 year old HP laserjet and have printed maybe 1000-1500 pages total and am on my second printer cartridge. It still works perfectly. And the toner cartridges are cheap and obviously last much longer.

Second thought, my library will print for free up to 50 pages a month for me. (including color). There's an app that I have on my phone and on my computer that sends the print request to the library and then I show up and it's sitting in an envelope on a pickup table with my name on it. I have no idea how common this is but on the rare occasions when I've wanted to print something in color this is what I use.

I don't know how great/not great the wireless printers are. Mine connects via a USB cable. Both my work and personal computers are PCs so that's a plug'n'play situation for me.

[iris lilies]

I realize I'm very late to the game here but do have a couple of thoughts. One, if you print rarely, as do I, laserjet is a much better choice. I'm using a 15 year old HP laserjet and have printed maybe 1000-1500 pages total and am on my second printer cartridge. It still works perfectly. And the toner cartridges are cheap and obviously last much longer.

Second thought, my library will print for free up to 50 pages a month for me. (including color). There's an app that I have on my phone and on my computer that sends the print request to the library and then I show up and it's sitting in an envelope on a pickup table with my name on it. I have no idea how common this is but on the rare occasions when I've wanted to print something in color this is what I use.

I don't know how great/not great the wireless printers are. Mine connects via a USB cable. Both my work and personal computers are PCs so that's a plug'n'play situation for me.

thanks for chiming in JP. My city library system also allows 50 copies per month and I can combine mine with DHi’s privileges to get 100 copies per month when I have need for a lot of copies for a Garden club.


I think it includes color copies, too, but I haven’t use that feature.

[ToomuchStuff]

If your old printer still works and is USB, then I would look to hook it up to something like your firewall (husband technical? Know a kid that is?)
Shouldn't be hard to set the new one up wirelessly; my HL-6200DW took me something like 6 minutes total from unboxing. Just not sure about wireless scanning, as the only one I have dealt with in recent years, has been a commercial model (similar to the Brother MFCL8610CDW ). My recommendation is just leave a USB cable plugged into it (if using a laptop), for scanning purposes. (model may or may not be able to wirelessly scan)

[iris lilies]

If your old printer still works and is USB, then I would look to hook it up to something like your firewall (husband technical? Know a kid that is?)
Shouldn't be hard to set the new one up wirelessly; my HL-6200DW took me something like 6 minutes total from unboxing. Just not sure about wireless scanning, as the only one I have dealt with in recent years, has been a commercial model (similar to the Brother MFCL8610CDW ). My recommendation is just leave a USB cable plugged into it (if using a laptop), for scanning purposes. (model may or may not be able to wirelessly scan)

I want a copier at home. The many free photocopies I can get —I have to travel toSt. louis 85 miles away. My local Hermann library does not do free copies and actually does not even have a public-use photocopier, but they will make copies for me for a charge.

I need photocopies for instance for a current bylaws for a club of which I am President. No digital copy exists. This is typical of these plant organizations, their bylaws were created before the computer age. I am working to have digital copies of all bylaws for all of my organizations.

[jp1]

I am working to have digital copies of all bylaws for all of my organizations.

I will likely never be a member of a garden club but THANK YOU. The world needs more people like you to take on this task. Even today I routinely have to deal with PDFs at work that are just scans of documents and the text isn't searchable. Obviously I'm old enough to remember when all documents were not searchable but it's 2023. Important documents should be digitized and searchable.

[Tradd]

I will likely never be a member of a garden club but THANK YOU. The world needs more people like you to take on this task. Even today I routinely have to deal with PDFs at work that are just scans of documents and the text isn't searchable. Obviously I'm old enough to remember when all documents were not searchable but it's 2023. Important documents should be digitized and searchable.

absolutely!

[jp1]

I will likely never be a member of a garden club but THANK YOU. The world needs more people like you to take on this task. Even today I routinely have to deal with PDFs at work that are just scans of documents and the text isn't searchable. Obviously I'm old enough to remember when all documents were not searchable but it's 2023. Important documents should be digitized and searchable.

absolutely!

And don't get me started on the absurdity that when I have a new direct report start there are multiple documents related to that event. I have to print them out (in full, not just the signature page), sign the signature page, take photos of every page and email them to myself, compile them back into one document using Acrobat pro, and send them back to HR. I can't just print the signature page, sign it, photo it and attach it back to the original document. And we don't use any sort of digital signature software. The time waste is absurd.

[Tradd]

And don't get me started on the absurdity that when I have a new direct report start there are multiple documents related to that event. I have to print them out (in full, not just the signature page), sign the signature page, take photos of every page and email them to myself, compile them back into one document using Acrobat pro, and send them back to HR. I can't just print the signature page, sign it, photo it and attach it back to the original document. And we don't use any sort of digital signature software. The time waste is absurd.

I have one of my own. There’s a CBP form I have to use a lot for one customer’s shipments. CBP set up the form so you cannot save any data typed into it. You have to type it all out, print it out for signature. I have to scan it together with a bunch of other documents to send to CBP so they will release shipments. I would love to be able to save the form with the customer’s data already typed in (name, address, etc.), but nope.

[iris lilies]

I will likely never be a member of a garden club but THANK YOU. The world needs more people like you to take on this task. Even today I routinely have to deal with PDFs at work that are just scans of documents and the text isn't searchable. Obviously I'm old enough to remember when all documents were not searchable but it's 2023. Important documents should be digitized and searchable.

Oh honey, don’t get ME started on all of the bylaw disasters I have encountered this last one just a minor thing. It is “minor” because this specific iris club is not a corporation registered with the state and so our operations can be less—organized, shall we say. But I just learned that the IRS is pushing organizations to hold all bylaws of their affiliate groups, and we come under that requirement.My tiny club is an affiliate of The American Iris Society.

For years, my neighborhood association couldn’t be bothered to keep track of its bylaws. There were paper copies that existed in files of former presidents, but we seldom got those files back from presidents. Once their term is over, former Presidents tend to leave involvement because it was such a big job being President. And I don’t blame them for that. But so my brilliant idea years ago was to put bylaws on the website because how can bylaws get lost if they’re out there on the web for everyone to see? Ha, ha, ha ha little did I Know that was not necessarily true. We needed to update bylaws and no one had an editable copy. Oy. The website copy was PDF.

I left the neighborhood after making lots of updates to bylaws and leaving them with a text (editable) copy in the digital archives, hope it is maintained. I guess Adobe Pro can edit a PDF? So maybe they won’t lose this editable copy after all.

tldr boring crap: people are dumb about producing and maintaining records