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I estimate I scanned about 4,000 old family photos, mostly negatives. The nice part is that I could distribute the JPGs to all family members and especially my kids. Once all the family photos are scanned, I now rarely have to scan negatives, but the fact that everything is now digitized makes the purchase of the scanner well worthwhile. I have never regretted the purchase! The photos are now easy to store and view on my computer and they will not deteriorate over time.
A final tip: If you have both the negative and a paper copy of a photo - scan the negative. You will get better results.
modified 11-Dec-19 7:55am.
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I have a Brother Multi function laser printer... MFC9340CDW it's old nowadays, but it works really well, it's fast, reliable and can scan in flatbed mode (page by page) or do multiple pages at once if you load the page feeder.
Not that I print much, but when I have to do it usually are contracts and quotations for the next day and at late night so I wanted something reliable, fast and that would be super expensive.
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I'd recommend steering clear of Darryl Revok[^]. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Does a car body shop come highly wreck-a-mended?
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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Only if its employees attended a good crash course!
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Only for Crash-Test-Dummies!
In Word you can only store 2 bytes. That is why I use Writer.
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This reminds of a metal band I used to see around town called Wreck Creation. I think they were anarchists.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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Only if they approach each job head-on.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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I dent think that is true.
I, for one, like Roman Numerals.
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I'm no de-femder of such things but it's like if a driver goes on a bender.
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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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