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My Epson only flushes the heads when I tell it to, like when I need to print colour, and it just prints a few pencil thin coloured stripes.

"'Do what thou wilt...' is to bid Stars to shine, Vines to bear grapes, Water to seek its level; man is the only being in Nature that has striven to set himself at odds with himself."
—Aleister Crowley

That's pretty neat. If the software was transparent about it and gave you some control and indication of how much ink it's flushing with that would make the printer manufacturers a lot less shady.

No so much with HP: my HP deskjet never gave me a hint that this was happening, and every time I needed to print (like once every half year), there was somehow no ink. I was so pissed off when I found out what was happening that I got some Lexmark full duplex laser for around €100. I make sure to never turn it on when I'm not printing, so they're not elephanting me. When it runs out of toner in 5-10 years at this rate, I'll just get another (non-HP) laser printer!

Wout

I've never even owned one yet never want to see another HP printer for all eternity.

"'Do what thou wilt...' is to bid Stars to shine, Vines to bear grapes, Water to seek its level; man is the only being in Nature that has striven to set himself at odds with himself."
—Aleister Crowley

lasers can fool you too. for the home user OK, but a client I knew bought up to date business grade color laser printers a few years back, "on special"
yes they handled the workload, (all day Mon- Fri, few boxes (10-20 reams) per week) but
- use a lot of toner - monthly, (luckily individually changeable, but 4 colors)
- occasionally need something a "toner waste cartridge" (- 1 for all colors)
- occasionally need new "print drums" (one per color)

I'd imagine most home users never reach those other-parts limits, but in business those are even more consumables do come up - each about the same price as a toner cartridge.

another gotya: "business" models go "out of production" real fast - already the limited supply for consumables if you can get 3 years before having to replace the whole thing you've done real well. (the printer will be fine, the consumables just cease to be available unless you can wait 2-3 weeks for the compatable items from China - actually quality not that bad these days but it's that lead time that doesn't work for business users.).

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I have an Epson at home, specifically one of the EcoTank models. Ink refills are literally just ink not a cartridge and are cheap - $17 to $24 AUD each.
At work we have a few Fuji Xerox laser printers (DocuPrint CM305's) & they are not expensive to buy but the toners are expensive, around 80% of the cost of the printer for a full set.
We have gotten rid of a few of them due to the cost

Cheers

Thanks for the tip, I'll keep those in mind for my next printer.

It's good to see there are still developments towards less wasteful practises, and it's not all profit maximalization.

Wout

For manipulating multiple images off the scanner, try autosplitter.

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The IRS has finally released the 1040 form for year 2017 (although it's still missing the very important, for me at least, 8606 form Mad | :mad:

), and as usual, I use my PDFXChange 2.5 (Build 309.0) to fill in the forms, thus allowing for a simple printout, sign & date, and snail mail to the IRS. (I cannot simply affix a bitmap of my signature, as the IRS demands real ink Mad | :mad:

, and I always seem to have to send in memo with my return because I seem to always do something that the IRS has not made it easy to do Mad | :mad:

, so I can't do the eFile, and even when I tried, it was far too much work to do, BUT I DIGRESS ...)

Anyway, I have been noticing every year that the textbox (or whatever it's called in PDF) for the Social Security Number always seems to not work properly - when I try to type in my number, it adds an extra space between digits; this would not be so bad, but the last digit of the middle set of digits always seems to be located exactly on a divider. Mad | :mad:

I've been putting up with this every year, but now I'M MAD AS H3LL, AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE! Mad | :mad:

So before I tell my curmudgeon Senator about this (he's the one that recently asked a judicial nominee some very basic things about being a judge, which the nominee bombed big time), I want to make sure that it's not just a bug with PDFXChange (which if it is, I'm going to complain to them), so I would like folks who have access to Adobe PDF (which should be the standard for the proper behavior of a PDF file) to give this a try, so as to light my path. Of course, if anyone has actually programmed in PDF, that would be even better.

Here is the link to the form: https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/f1040.pdf[^]

P.S., As far as I know, PDFXChange is the only FREE PDF app that allows to fill in forms; if there are any suggestions for such a FREE PDF app NOT NAMED FOXIT (I don't care for the junkware), that would be welcomed. Smile | :)

modified 13-Jan-18 1:12am.

I tried it simply in Chrome browser. (You do know Chrome can fill in pdf forms and save them, right?) Entered 123456789 as SSN. The 3 and 5 sit on the separators. So I'm inclined to say it's the form.

Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012

I just tried it with Adobe Reader and it worked fine.

Are you sure you did this scenario correctly? My understanding is that Adobe Reader doesn't allow for any changes, including entering data into textboxes. I'll have to check it out.

Adobe reader has allowed that for a while. I've used it many times.

You may also want to consider OLT.com, which has free federal returns.

I just tried it with the Adobe pro edition (albeit from about 2012 or so), and got the same results you found. The form is definitely not coded correctly.

Will Rogers never met me.

OK, I will presume that you have done this correctly, and will complain to my curmudgeon Senator.

Since blocking ads is stealing according to some, why blocking miners is any different, or even blocking malware?

I mean webmaster implied that cost of viewing the site is your privacy, I you don't like it, don't wa... oh wait, they already got your data!

I block:
- all scripts (only few domains white-listed)
- all cookies (only few domains white-listed)
- ads
- all referral info

Should I block anything else?

Mladen Janković wrote:
Should I block anything else?

Your internet connection...

Keep your friends close. ~~Keep~~ Kill your enemies ~~closer~~.

Mladen Janković wrote:
or even blocking malware?

If you can't see how blocking malware is different than blocking ads then I don't think someone explaining it to you will help.

There are two kinds of people in the world: those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.

There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.

But can you see how they're similar?

PIEBALDconsult wrote:
But can you see how they're similar?

Only that you don't want either of them.

I receive junk mail but receiving anthrax in my junk mail is quite different. Laugh | :laugh:

There are two kinds of people in the world: those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.

There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.

‭011111100010‬ wrote:
you don't want

Stuffing my mailbox with junk so my actual mail cannot fit there is bit more troublesome than "me not wanting junk mail".

Perhaps you have a small mailbox. $Shucks | :-\$

There are two kinds of people in the world: those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.

There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.

Yes, it could be a case of mailbox envy... But I don't think that is relevant to the OP's question...

Will Rogers never met me.

There are two kinds of people in the world: those who think there are two kinds of people in the world and the others

‭011111100010‬ wrote:
explaining it to you

Please entertain us, but do it from perspective of a site owner.

Bonus question, please define boundary between ads and adware. ^{I mean we should know when we're committing act of stealing and when we're just rightfully blocking something.} Is this boundary universal for each and every user?

Btw. you conveniently skipped the first question.

Mladen Janković wrote:
adware

You're changing the topic. No thanks.

There are two kinds of people in the world: those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.

There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.

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