---------------- In Apr ’98 I bought an HP LaserJet 6mp B&W laser
printer for $799. As of my Mar ’01 “Printers
& Printing” presentation, I had spent a total of $115 in laser
paper and toner in those 35 months, or an average of $3.30/month. And in Jan ’00 I bought an Epson Stylus Photo 1200
wide-format color inkjet printer for $499, and as of Mar ’01, I had
spent a total of $275 on inkjet paper and cartridges in those 14 months,
or an average of $20/month. Carrying those averages out 39 months to Jun ’04,
I had spent another $130 on laser paper and toner, and another $780 in inkjet
paper and cartridges. (I have the exact numbers, but this review won’t
go out now if I look them up.) So I had this major printing project in June, and I didn’t
really want to go through more inkjet cartridges, so I excitedly bought
an HP Color LaserJet
3500 for $899, just $100 more than my B&W 6mp 6 years earlier. Technically speaking, it’s a great printer.
It’s suppose to be fast at 12 pages per minute B&W or color, and
it’s a one-pass printer, meaning paper goes by the drum only once,
vs the CLJ 2500 which is 20 ppm black, but 4 ppm color. While my real-world experience has been a little less exciting,
in either Mac OS 9 or X — my issues are not w/ the printer itself,
but w/ HP’s drivers — the end-result is better than either B&W-only
laser or color inkjet output. For some people whose e-mail addresses I don’t know,
I will be printing up my Season’s greeting card and the webified version
of this review and actually snail-mailing them out. ........ QMUG/LA. I couldn’t write a year-in-review, mention Macs, and not mention
QMUG/LA, the Lesbian, Gay & Bisexual
Macintosh User’s Group for _all_ of Los Angeles, meeting since June
1994. In June 2004, QMUG/LA celebrated its *10th* Anniversary, thus the major printing project mentioned earlier (of handouts, Certificates of Appreciation, envelopes for them, etc.). It went well, and everyone was happy. |
The Los Angeles Commission on Assaults Against Women, LACAAW, has ~30 Macs, mostly iMacs
and a few towers. In my 1st three months there, I inventoried all
of their desktops and created a FileMaker database of the results. ---------------- So when I found out in May ’04 I would have another
chance to see her again, this time w/ Sting at the Hollywood Bowl in Sept
2004, I was a little less than anxious or excited. Rather than try to be one of the first people to buy tickets
like I did in 2003, I waited ’til just the week before and was able
to buy two tickets for about the same price as 2003’s one. So I was able to take a friend w/ me, and we had a blast!
Not only was getting to the Bowl and back a piece of cake w/ shuttles from
Hollywood & Highland, but Annie just sounded fantastic, maybe due to
better acoustics. ..... Eurythmics. The buzz for Eurythmics fans on the Yahoo! Groups list is when
their remastered
albums w/ bonus tracks are coming out. I just rec’d e-mail
from Amazon that _maybe_ that will be Tue, Jan 11th, 2005. ........... Xmas. Well, it’s Christmas time, so of course I have to listen to
Xmas music. As of this writing, I only have 72 songs for about 3 1/2
hours worth. I’m still looking for ~7 more, but am open to others. New to me this year are “Away in a Manger” by
George Strait, “Go Tell It on the Mountain” by Nana Mouskouri,
“It Came Upon the Midnight Clear” by Tammy Wynette, and “The
Holly and the Ivy” by Roger Whittaker. I also highly recommend “Hang Myself from the Tree”
by the Vandals, “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” by Diana
Krall, “Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence” by Ryuichi Sakamoto, and
“Sleigh Ride” by Ella Fitzgerald. |