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Just doing the Christmas cards - design the card in Paintshop Pro 2020, tell teh ing driver I want pictures on 200gsm glossy photo paper, and how many copies.
Load a stack of card, press print.
And it prints 'em. Hasn't been used for months, but off it goes.
No "Unrecognised cartridge", no missing lines, no press "clean" and try again a dozen sodding times.
It prints.
OK, the toner is expensive to buy, but I figure it's cheaper than the amount of paper ink I used to waste trying to get all nozzles on my inkjets working before I could get anything useful.
Now the labels: Avery L7163, mail merge, print, done.
All I have to do is fold 'em, sign 'em, get Herself to sign 'em, envelope 'em, stick a label on, and post 'em.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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Tried to buy a SL-C480W last night, but they were out. It was good deal that came with a free extra black toner cartridge. 
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Bummer 
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GenJerDan wrote: free extra black toner cartridge
So is extra black some sort of reaaaally dark black that is blacker than normal black? 
I, for one, like Roman Numerals.
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Yes - a Samsung C430W.
I'm down to under 20% Yellow toner already, mostly on two years worth of Christmas cards ... but the sample toner they ship with isn't full size.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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How is the color quality on these laser printers? I have a lot of confidence in Samsung products' quality.
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I print Christmas cards with it, so it's pretty good. Use good paper (goes without saying) and throw all inkjet paper in the bin - it's got a coating on it to prevent the ink "bleeding" which gums up the fuser roller of lasers.
It never loses lines (unlike inkjet), the print speed is in a different league, and raindrops don't "smudge" it. In my experience, it doesn't fade as badly as inkjet either.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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Thanks! I remember the very first color laser printer that came out, but we are talking decades ago. It was made by Tektronics and cost around $100,000. No need to say it never caught on. 
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Yep, as mine is exactly the same it works equally well after long periods of not using it.
Mind you that I ran into a slight problem recently. I accidentally bought me some 300 g laser printing paper and the printer could not handle it: too thick for the paper feed mechanism. Nothing was damaged but the printer stopped with an error indication.
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I've got an HP 2600n. Really old but solid printing. I didn't print anything on it for more than six months and then had to print a recipe (with colour pictures) for her indoors. It woke up from a deep sleep, hummed for a few moments then spat out perfect prints with no problems, then went back to sleep a few minutes later.
I love colour laser printers. All my old ink-jets (except a 15 year-old wide-carriage CANON that I never use but might one day) have gone to the tip. For the price of one print head/ink combo thingy for the ink-jet I can get a replacement cartridge for the 2600n on Fleabay. No brainer!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Hmmmm,
The semordnilap of Sander Rossel is 'Less or red NAS'.
Best Wishes,
-David Delaune
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I'm thinking hard, but my mind went blank after lunch and now I'm just waiting for the day to be over...
So I give up, what's a semordnilap and "Less or red NAS" is code language for what? 
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You're looking at it all the wrong way... literally!
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Doh, how could I miss the Lessor Rednas 
I even read the words backwards, but didn't recognize them
As I said, I've mentally checked out after lunch 
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Well, the universe has to balance out from you having such a great day yesterday!
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Not getting sordnaR joke hardly siefilauq
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Sander Rossel wrote: So I give up, what's a semordnilap and "Less or red NAS" is code language for what?
I am terrible at jokes. It's nothing bad. I just noticed I could make sense of your name read backwards.
semordnilap[^]
NAS[^]
Best Wishes,
-David Delaune
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I know what a palindrome is, but I've never heard of the semordnilap 
I somehow missed the Lessor Rednas, even though I actually did read it backwards
As I said, I mentally checked out after lunch
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Ah, Martin Gardner. We need more of his kind.
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A great man. So far above the rest of us it is often hard to get what he is getting at, but I like a lot of his stuff - for intellectual enjoyment. If I understand it, it gives me a great feeling of superiority!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Jörgen Andersson wrote: Martin Gardner. We need more of his kind.
24 years.
List of Martin Gardner Mathematical Games columns[^]
I believe he mentions the semordnilap in the September 1964 issue. It's stored up in the attic with my collection of 30+ years of National Geographic.
Best Wishes,
-David Delaune
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