Best small printers

[gggg...@gmail.com]

https://www.realhomes.com/us/buying-guides/best-small-printer?region-switch=1597876197

[Beaver...@live.com]

On Wednesday, August 19, 2020 at 3:39:22 PM UTC-7, gggg...@gmail.com wrote:
> https://www.realhomes.com/us/buying-guides/best-small-printer?region-switch=1597876197

there are so many printers put to the curb now

[The Real Bev]

I bought a cheap Brother laser printer in 2009. I've bought several
cartridges (under $20 each on line) and am still happy with it. It's so
light it feels like a toy, but it just keeps working. I don't use it
much, but it does what I ask.

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Cheers, Bev
"So I'm at the wailing wall, standing there like a moron,
with my harpoon." -- Emo Philips

[Bob F]

On 9/14/2020 4:40 PM, The Real Bev wrote:
> On 09/13/2020 10:20 PM, Beaver...@live.com wrote:
>> On Wednesday, August 19, 2020 at 3:39:22 PM UTC-7, gggg...@gmail.com
>> wrote:
>>> https://www.realhomes.com/us/buying-guides/best-small-printer?region-switch=1597876197
>>>
>>
>> there are so many printers put to the curb now
>
> I bought a cheap Brother laser printer in 2009.  I've bought several
> cartridges (under $20 each on line) and am still happy with it.  It's so
> light it feels like a toy, but it just keeps working.  I don't use it
> much, but it does what I ask.
>

The last new printer I bought was a fanfold dot matrix printer. There
are too many used laserjet printers available free to waste money on new
printers and cartridges.

[Joh...@badisp.org]

The Real Bev <bashl...@gmail.com> wrote:

>On 09/13/2020 10:20 PM, Beaver...@live.com wrote:
>> On Wednesday, August 19, 2020 at 3:39:22 PM UTC-7, gggg...@gmail.com wrote:
>>> https://www.realhomes.com/us/buying-guides/best-small-printer?region-switch=1597876197
>>
>> there are so many printers put to the curb now
>
>I bought a cheap Brother laser printer in 2009. I've bought several
>cartridges (under $20 each on line) and am still happy with it. It's so
>light it feels like a toy, but it just keeps working. I don't use it
>much, but it does what I ask.

I'm looking for a new printer...well, maybe not a printer alone.

I'm trying to solve a problem: I suffer from Essential Tremor which
means that I can't print/write legibly. Even I can't read what I've
written; I can type though.

The problem usually occurs when I'm sitting at the computer looking up
something like a tiny printer and need to write down a supplier adding
things such as vendor's name, model #, price and preferably write this
down on a card -- well, let's go for the gold -- on the back of a 80
column Hollerith card (remember those?). Other uses would be writing a
grocery shopping list, a list of Home Depot items such as paint type
and color or list of screws to buy, or the address of a place I intent
to visit, or details of something I'm repairing. Many of these are in
different places: the grocery in the kitchen (1st floor), the items to
buy at HD at the PC (2nd floor), the repair item in the cellar or the
4th floor, etc. I'm certainly not going to carry my PC up and
downstairs.

I could borrow my wife's IPad, enter the information on it and then
send myself an e-mail and then print it on my PC. The problems with
this approach are:

- I hate the imitation key pad
- she's often using it herself or it's out of battery or on charge
- formatting the page is a nightmare
- I have no idea where the information is stored raising the specter
of massive spam
- buying another similar device (I hate Apple too) but that'd be a
very expensive solution.

So, any suggestions?



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[Bob F]

Find a freebie or cheap obsolete smart phone or pad. Friend, Craigslist,
freecycle or whatever. Then you can use it with WiFi to communicate with
your other equipment. Phones without at least 4G HD audio are being
obsoleted by the cell companies like Verizon. I recently updated my
phone to a Galaxy S5, which is the oldest one that now meets their
standard. Phones earlier than that should not cost much.

Good voice recognition might be useful for you.

[The Real Bev]

On 09/15/2020 09:54 AM, Bob F wrote:

> The last new printer I bought was a fanfold dot matrix printer. There
> are too many used laserjet printers available free to waste money on new
> printers and cartridges.

We bought a Centronics 101 new. Worked OK until the smoke leaked out.

--
Cheers, Bev
"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can
only exist until a majority of voters discover that they can vote
themselves largess out of the public treasury."
-- Alexander Tyler (Unverified)

[The Real Bev]

On 09/15/2020 04:47 PM, Bob F wrote:
> On 9/15/2020 3:49 PM, Joh...@BadISP.org wrote:
>> The Real Bev <bashl...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On 09/13/2020 10:20 PM, Beaver...@live.com wrote:
>>>> On Wednesday, August 19, 2020 at 3:39:22 PM UTC-7, gggg...@gmail.com wrote:
>>>>> https://www.realhomes.com/us/buying-guides/best-small-printer?region-switch=1597876197
>>>>
>>>> there are so many printers put to the curb now
>>>
>>> I bought a cheap Brother laser printer in 2009. I've bought several
>>> cartridges (under $20 each on line) and am still happy with it. It's so
>>> light it feels like a toy, but it just keeps working. I don't use it
>>> much, but it does what I ask.
>>
>> I'm looking for a new printer...well, maybe not a printer alone.
>>
>> I'm trying to solve a problem: I suffer from Essential Tremor which
>> means that I can't print/write legibly. Even I can't read what I've
>> written; I can type though.
>>
>> The problem usually occurs when I'm sitting at the computer looking up
>> something like a tiny printer and need to write down a supplier adding
>> things such as vendor's name, model #, price and preferably write this
>> down on a card -- well, let's go for the gold -- on the back of a 80
>> column Hollerith card (remember those?).

Of course. Punch column 80 (or maybe 72, it's been a while) and turn
the card over to make a 'comment' when testing your program. They also
made cute helicopters and Xmas wreaths.

I just tested the voice recognition on my Pixel 2. I asked it for one
dozen quarter twenty screws. It showed me pictures of a number of
candidates, including fillister heads. I should have specified length...

Using a voice recorder until you're ready to type stuff into a list
sounds good unless you've actually had to transcribe voice notes -- you
NEED a foot-operated stop/rewind/play control. Maybe play the whole
recording into an opened file and print that...

You can get small USB/bluetooth keyboard that work with a phone or
tablet, but the keys are AWFULLY small and close together. You can also
get normal size roll-up keyboards...

That's all I got :-(

[Edward Jackson]

You're still with us! I thought the plague got you. Or maybe Facebook.

[Bob F]

On 9/15/2020 6:21 PM, The Real Bev wrote:
> "A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can
>    only exist until a majority of voters discover that they can vote
>    themselves largess out of the public treasury."
>                                     -- Alexander Tyler (Unverified)

"The last half of the 20th century was the golden age of democracy. In
1945, according to one survey, there were just 12 democracies in the
entire world. By the end of the century there were 87. But then came the
great reversal: In the second decade of the 21st century, the shift to
democracy rather suddenly and ominously stopped—and reversed.

Right-wing populist politicians have taken power or threatened to in
Poland, Hungary, France, Britain, Italy, Brazil and the United States.
As Rosenberg notes, “by some metrics, the right wing populist share of
the popular vote in Europe overall has more than tripled from 4% in 1998
to approximately 13% in 2018.” In Germany, the right-wing populist vote
increased even after the end of the Great Recession and after an influx
of immigrants entering the country subsided.

A brief three decades after some had heralded the “end of history” it’s
possible that it’s democracy that’s nearing the end. And it’s not just
populist rabble-rousers who are saying this. So is one of the
establishment’s pioneer social scientists, who’s daring to actually
predict the end of democracy as we know it."

...... Read the rest

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/09/08/shawn-rosenberg-democracy-228045

[The Real Bev]

> You're still with us! I thought the plague got you. Or maybe Facebook.

I still read ALL the groups I subscribed to, but there's not much
activity. I've made facebook as much like usenet as possible, but it's
not even a distant second in goodness.

--
Cheers, Bev
Guns kill people like spoons make Rosie O'Donnell fat.

[Edward Jackson]

I had to delete my real Facebook again.

Still have the secondary one though little in the way of friends and real interaction, it's more to track events of which there are very little. Actually unfollowing a lot and adding podcasts, authors etc.

I sometimes like to look up my old posts so I can still get into a window into my own personality and emotions of the time that I can't get in my event diary. Since my memory is almost non-existent these records bring it back to life.

Though my enforced 40th birthday hiatus from message boards and social media is probably most responsible for the massive success that soon followed, a huge chunk of my terrestrial social life was dependent on music message boards and the like. Facebook doesn't really seem to have that capability.

[Edward Jackson]

What an exciting time to be alive. I can't believe I may witness the final decline and/or rapid transformation of America with my own eyes. I might even get in on the action and vote again.

[gggg...@gmail.com]

On Wednesday, August 19, 2020 at 3:39:22 PM UTC-7, gggg...@gmail.com wrote:
> https://www.realhomes.com/us/buying-guides/best-small-printer?region-switch=1597876197

https://www.pcmag.com/picks/best-cheap-printers

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