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Printing Apprentice
- Joined
- Feb 8, 2023
- Messages
- 6
- Reaction score
- 2
- Points
- 13
- Location
- Charlottesville, VA
- Printer Model
- Canon iP4700 and MP980
Nifty suggested a bit more information about me.
After 50 years in Palo Alto, we moved to Charlottesville, VA to be closer to family. We arrived ~3.5 years ago on 3/14/23 (a significant date for Covid-19.) At 83 I'm slowing down a bit, but I still enjoy nature photography, wildflowers (on still days,) lichens, fungi, objects that don't move around too quickly.
We have 2 printers, a Brother HL-L2320D black-and-white printer and a Canon Pixma Pro-200 for photo prints. The latter is proving difficult to keep connected to my Windows 10 desktop. I've opened a thread in the PK Canon Ink-Jet forum.
Our historic printers were a Canon Pixma IP4700, a HP Deskjet 882 and a HP LaserJet 4. I don't recall the numbers of the first printers that used tractor paper and served the Apple 2+.
I used Hobbicolors ink to refill the cartridges for the IP4700 for many years. I did everything I could to keep it running. I routinely printed cards on 0.017 inch thick (17 PT) cardstock in the rear tray. Eventually I could not reset the ink sump anymore. It was Canon obsolete.
I was a regular on Moe's 'Fix Your Own Printer' and can't recall all the DYI repairs I made on various printers.
That said, I did few repairs on our 2012 Nissan Leaf and anticipate none on our new Kia Niro EV.
I'm a retired synthetic organic chemist (PhD 1967.) Yesterday I tried my hand at grafting fig trees, something I did in Palo Alto many times.
That about says it,
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After 50 years in Palo Alto, we moved to Charlottesville, VA to be closer to family. We arrived ~3.5 years ago on 3/14/23 (a significant date for Covid-19.) At 83 I'm slowing down a bit, but I still enjoy nature photography, wildflowers (on still days,) lichens, fungi, objects that don't move around too quickly.
We have 2 printers, a Brother HL-L2320D black-and-white printer and a Canon Pixma Pro-200 for photo prints. The latter is proving difficult to keep connected to my Windows 10 desktop. I've opened a thread in the PK Canon Ink-Jet forum.
Our historic printers were a Canon Pixma IP4700, a HP Deskjet 882 and a HP LaserJet 4. I don't recall the numbers of the first printers that used tractor paper and served the Apple 2+.
I used Hobbicolors ink to refill the cartridges for the IP4700 for many years. I did everything I could to keep it running. I routinely printed cards on 0.017 inch thick (17 PT) cardstock in the rear tray. Eventually I could not reset the ink sump anymore. It was Canon obsolete.
I was a regular on Moe's 'Fix Your Own Printer' and can't recall all the DYI repairs I made on various printers.
That said, I did few repairs on our 2012 Nissan Leaf and anticipate none on our new Kia Niro EV.
I'm a retired synthetic organic chemist (PhD 1967.) Yesterday I tried my hand at grafting fig trees, something I did in Palo Alto many times.
That about says it,
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