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k5054 wrote: Time to migrate to an SSD
Dude... the time to migrate to SSD was ten years ago. 
Jeremy Falcon
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10 years old? 
The good news is that there is no UEFI. If the drive is a SATA spinner, PM me and I can ship you a disk cloner for the cost of shipping.
Seriously folks, 4 years max.
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
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I use the free version of Macrium and bought a cheap(£8) USB to SATA cable from Amazon, so that I can apply the image to an SSD fairly easily.
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Should you not use "beef stew" as your password because it's not Stroganoff?
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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Well - it will probably end up as hash, anyway.
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I imagine you'll get chili response to that one, but I wouldn't steak my life in it.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
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It took me two full minutes to figure this one out. Now my brain is tired. I have to take a quick nap because I am old. 
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
modified 1-Jul-20 12:22pm.
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Cp-Coder wrote: because I am old
Life... it'll kill ya.
Jeremy Falcon
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Yup! In the end it is 100% fatal. 
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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I hate 'em all with a burning passion.
One thing I've learned a long time ago is that if you're not using them regularly, the ink will dry and/or the head will get gummed up.
Last year, I replaced the cartridges in mine (prematurely, I thought at the time - if I print 10 items a year it's been a busy year). A few weeks ago I had to print another sheet, and I fully expected the ink to be a problem because I hadn't used the printer since. I was right. Replaced the whole set again and everything was good.
That was barely 3 weeks ago. Tried to print something again yesterday, and it refused to do anything. Its display just showed an error code, and googling for it basically amounted to "box up the printer and send it back to the manufacturer". Some people were suggesting basic things, like power-cycling and taking out the cartridges and re-seating them, which I must've done at least 30 times last evening before giving up. This error code came up long before Windows could even talk to the printer, so it wasn't a software problem on the system I was trying to print from.
I just tried it again just now for sh*t and giggles. Worked great, as if nothing had ever happened. So why was it such a struggle yesterday?
The only reason I still have an ink-jet printer at all is that this one (Canon MX922) can print on the surface of CDs (which is what I was trying to do). I'm otherwise all laser - I have a black-and-white and a color one. Never had any problem with either one of those, and they're both well over 10 years old. I've never even replaced the toner in either one of them. I had been warned toner can turn into clumps, but that still hasn't been a problem.
Does anyone know of a color laser printer than can print on the surface of a CD? If there's (a reasonably priced) one out there, I'll be done with inkjet printers once and for all...and I'll be going full Office Space on the inkjet.
(I'm assuming they exist...the printable CDs I've purchased all say inkjet-printable however. So I'm not sure if that's a thing...?)
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I have never seen one, and I doubt they exist - CD / DVDs are rated to less than 100oC and the fuser temperature in a laser is a heady 400oC+ so it's more likely the plastic CD / DVD coating will melt and wreck the printer than you'll get a usable print.
There are CD / DVD labels available though: CD Labels | L7676-100 | Avery[^]
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I just checked ... They are made of Polycarbonate[^] with an aluminum layer, and the glass temp for polycarbonate is 147oC.
I really, really wouldn't feed a CD or DVD into a laser printer!
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modified 30-Jun-20 10:50am.
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I figured heat would probably be a problem, so it's nice to see actual numbers. I guess I can scratch that one from the list.
As for CD labels...I've done the experiment years ago and I wasn't particularly pleased with the results. But when my current printer next presents a problem that really can't be solved...I think I'll settle for those.
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Please don't scratch it from the list. Try it and post pix!
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I had the same problem with my Cannon so I ended up tossing it.
Real programmers use butterflies
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But, yes - bin the inkjet, get a laser. I really wish I'd done it years ago.
With the inkjet, every first print took half and hour or more to get the heads working. The laser? I plug it in, print, unplug. It just works, first time, every time. Heck, I'm still on the small toner cartridges they ship with it, though Yellow is getting low and a bought a full size jobbie for when it finally goes. But that was early December, and it still doesn't need it!
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My best educated guess is that you won't be able to find such a laser printer because of the way they work.
Not only would the CD not survive the trip through the heated fuser rollers, but the electrostatic part that pulls the toner to the paper would probably not work through a CD either.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Last Saturday I took delivery of my first laser printer, the installation went smoothly. I will never, but never have an inkjet in my house again. The missus says I paid too much, I say I'd pay twice the price to not have to deal with inkjets. ![Elephant | [mastadon]](https://codeproject.freetls.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/elephant.gif) them.
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Worth it.
I paid $100 for my color laser probably a decade ago. I jumped on it because of the price - I figured what do I have to lose? - and I'm still on the so-called starter cartridges.
I purchased replacements last year (just because I needed something to get the dollar amount of another purchase above the minimum Amazon wants before they'll ship for free), and they're still sitting in the box.
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dandy72 wrote: and I'm still on the so-called starter cartridges.
For as little as we print, I expect this to be the case for us. 
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
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0) To address the first problem - keeping your print heads clean (an article I wrote 11 years ago) - Keep Your InkJet Print Head Clean[^] - it's pretty nifty, in that it will allow you to use the same piece of paper over and over again.
1) For the 2nd question I have an Epson Stylus Photo 1400, and it has a CD caddy to print on printable DVD/CD. I think Canon also makes a printer with the same feature (or at least, they used to).
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Thanks for the article John. I was expecting to see something I've read a million times before, but I didn't expect to see code and an actual accompanying program - nice.
As for the replacing the printer - it's either gonna be laser, or none at all, and it looks like laser isn't an option for printing on CDs. I wouldn't really expect that getting a different inkjet will do much to address my root problem.
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Laser printers can't print on dvds. It would have to be an ink-jet.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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I have a Canon Inkjet as well. It's a multi function and the scanner part is actually very nice. But I agree, inkjet sucks. It's shaky and noisy, ink is expensive and refills don't work well.
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Had the same problem because I only used the printer from time to time, so ink dried out eventually, which is why I ended up dicthing my inkjet printer a couple of years ago.
I had to buy a printer during the lockdown though (for the kids homework) and there was no affordable laser printer available (because, well, lots of people had to buy a printer during the lockdown, thank you very much teachers - but to be fair that was not a big deal).
So I ended up ordering a very very cheap hp inkjet, and I subscribed to hp instant ink, which is cool : I get as much ink as I need for a couple of euros a month - or even 0 if I print less than 15 pages a month vs. about 65€ of cartridges almost every other time I had to print something.
Maybe I will get rid of it once good laser printers are available to buy again, but for the moment, that's plenty sufficient.
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I used LightScribe back in the day. Don't see it much these days.
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