Journal Entry
Printer
November 30th 2006 at 2:00 pm
Just got my printer hooked up again. I’d been having DSL failures last month, so a few weeks ago I changed the house over to cable internet. No down-time in my ability to get online so far. But I had to move the wireless station away from the printer where it had served up print jobs for me.
Now I have the printer in the living room running off a spare computer I use to manage bills. Just printed out a draft of a proposal so I could sit with a pen and go over it. There’s something about sitting down with the actual printed words that helps me look at them slightly differently. Nothing mystical, right, I’m a child of the computer era, but it’s just getting something familiar into a different context so that my brain can look at it differently that often makes the difference to me.
I also have to print out some stuff I have on my hard drive that needs mailed that’s been waiting all these weeks.
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1. Mark Terry on Nov 30th, 2006 at 4:35 pm
I’m one of those people who regularly has to print stuff out and mark it up in order to rewrite.
Wouldn’t it have been easier to invest in infrared/wireless for your printer? (And I say that with full knowledge that it would take me hours to get it to work if I tried it).
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2. Jenn Reese on Nov 30th, 2006 at 5:50 pm
Testing comments…
3. Tobias Buckell on Nov 30th, 2006 at 8:28 pm
It’s easy enough to plug it into one of the many computers around the house and just click on ’share printer’ to print to it from any other computer. I could get a wireless card, but that would cost money, this is free.
4. Steve Buchheit on Dec 1st, 2006 at 8:14 am
For edits I always find things in the hard copy that I never see online. Even for the design work I like to see a hard copy.