No, we're not scared, it's just a bit breezy here, so as we'd planned (in plan D1.6 or so) we've stayed put and done a good bit of restocking. As well as the banal stuff at Morrisons, we went back in for a second load from Clewlow's the butchers and Julian Graves.
The former supplied us with sausages, mince, chicken and an excellent Hunter Pie for lunch, and the latter supplied lots of nuts, dried fruit and liquorice. (I apologise to those reading this who are trying to diet ;) )
For the rest of the time, we've lurked in the boat, doing IT stuff and generally having a day off boating.
Defra have published the consultation document on the move to a National Waterways Charity; I had a bit of a problem downloading this in Google Chrome, not helped by the fact that the 3 connection here was a bit dodgy yesterday, though it's been much better today. As a result, I've gone back to using Safari, the native web browser in Mac OS; it's not quite as fast with downloading a page, but is more functional in other ways.
We also wanted to scan a cartoon from today's Independent, and remembered that our HP psc 1210 printer/scanned/copier doesn't scan under the version of Mac OS on our new machines. I found a third party bit of software, VueScan, but don't want to pay the $40 to buy the full version. The trial version puts a watermark all over the scan, which was fine for the present purpose, but not for much else. The thing is, it would only be around £50 for a new machine, and if we got an Epson we'd be able to buy the inks as individual colours, rather than having to buy the three colour cartridges that the HP uses.
Looks like my birthday present problem is solve for this year; we'll just about have used up the stock of cartridges for the HP by October...
2 comments:
Bruce - having just scrapped a nearly new Epson all-in-one to replace it with an HP I would recommend you sterr clear of the Epson as ours would only work properly on genuine inks and the cost was huge compared to the HP on other brand inks. Also the Epsom inks do not contain a new printing head like the HP one does and we found that several times the Epson head was blocked by poorer quality ink. Graham
www.jannock.org.uk
Thanks, Graham, that's really helpful as ever.
I'd had a private email from someone else commenting on the print quality of the four ink Epson, as opposed to a six ink job they had previously.
Any experience of Lexmark, they seem top be offering some decent deals these days?
All the best
Bruce
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