I didn't even consider using Chrome.... Until he said ya gotta try this!! Its a lot faster.... Its a lot cleaner on its screen and you only have one search line....... And reluctantly I loaded it up.... Whamo! he was way beyond right.....
I've lost count of his suggestions that I have tried.... So with that in mind, I wondered about his printer suggestion... Well, what "he did" anyway seemed cheap and quite effective... But going on line for the printer that he bought didn't reveal any sales on such a model here in the US...
I found it on the Canadian web site for Best Buy..... I asked the guy over at one of our stores, but he couldn't find the NX530 in the US.. Seems they sold out several sales ago... But not to fear, they had a similar model on sale for this Christmas......
The similar model is the XP 400 also by Epson... It might be similar but didn't have near the print speed that Rick's had... Other wise it looks about the same.... Uses newer print cartridges too... And it costs $10 more at $69... So what's not to like, slower, more expensive ink, and costs more.... ??
I bought the thing Saturday night just the same, rationalizing that the Looney is worth more than the dollar now anyway so it would cost me more in USD and then there is the CN sales taxes...... Shipping....
Quit trying to compare yourself to Rick,,,,,, so his is faster and cost less, can you duplicate his good deal? No....! Get over it..
But the good thing about this printer is that it is WIFI capable and logs itself right into your router... Enter your pass code and it signs right on...
Then run the software on your windows machine and answer the questions as to where the printer is and you can set it up..... They recommended that your first set up be with a USB cable plugged into the printer directly.... But I didn't have the cable...
So I just pushed on using the network connection... And I got it set up just fine... Then I went out on Google cloud print and set the machine up on the cloud...
Because the Asus Transformer Pad is an Android device using all things google, it found the printer on the cloud without doing anything...
But the real test was today when Loyce and I had to see if it would work with Airprint for the Apple iPad... We signed the iPad onto the local Wifi turning off the ipad's verizon internal modem while we were doing the printing..
Then we selected a short email and pressed the forward/reply button on Apple mail... The bottom most selection on the dropdown menu was Print... But it didn't do anything when we pressed it...
So we just sat there a moment to see what it might do... And it came up asking for us to select a printer...... Offering our XP400 as a choice... So we selected it and bingo the printer began to run...
So we have no wires other than the AC cord, and it works on the laptop, android, and the ipad... Oh, its a flat bed scanner and a copier too...
I haven't tried the scanner thing over the wifi yet and that might take the cable... But still I think we have kept up with the Jones..... Or perhaps the Doyles..
And by the way, we have almost 10% sales tax here in Mesa, Az too.... So we aren't even slighted in the tax department either.. But no blended taxes yet............... uh, don't give them any ideas.....
Retired Rod
I like that whole wifi routine. That sounds pretty neat.
ReplyDeleteI don't know why I didn't switch to a wireless printer a long time ago--I had trouble installing mine recently using Chrome, when I switched to IE it was seamless! It prints now from Chrome but it would not recognize my computer using Chrome as the browser for setup--it's a HP.
ReplyDeleteAlright, nice new printer Rod...and no worries, none of us can compare ourselves to Rick! :-)
ReplyDeleteGreat job on connecting all of your devices to the new printer without any cables, Rod, that's a bit more than I did as I used a spare USB cable I had kicking around to connect my desktop PC. Thanks for your kind words too although they do make me kind of nervous!!
ReplyDeleteHere in B.C. we voted to 'un-blend' our harmonized sales taxes last year even though we knew it would result in an increase of 1% in total cost (it was 11% and will go to 12% in April, 2013). The reason for voting for a tax increase was that the old system was applied to far less products which resulted in lower overall rates for us (I think, anyway).