I'm really pissed at myself, because I had a great deal lined up with a DSLR, two lenses, and a nice Canon printer, for basically the price of the printer. But I second-guessed it and put it off. But then the money for it came in, and I should have taken the deal, because now there's nothing comparable. And I'm going to end up spending twice as much buying the printer and buying the camera.

I wonder if I don't really need a multifunction anymore. I have the NeatDesk (which I don't really use because it came right before camp last year and I never really established a workflow with it and then Evernote partnered with Fujitsu ScanSnap instead and I got all pissy, but honestly, it's an expensive piece of equipment so I really should get after using it) so I could just scan to copy and fax over the internet. It's not like I have a reliable phone connection in this house anyway.

Maybe I should just be looking for a high quality wide format photo printer instead.

I dunno. Probably still inkjet, so long as there are multiple cartridges for the colors.

I had a laser last time I had a large format, and it was great, except for the part at the end where I believed that because I was a geek I should be able to repair a laser printer. Not so, it turns out.

I would buy extra toner because it usually comes with, but sometimes the starter it ships with is small.

This one might work for me if I decide I still want multifunction.

I ended up deciding I can get photos printed at Walgreens, etc. Because the colour toner expiry is just too expensive to continue with. Also, having slopped a bit of liquid on both types of printouts, well...

Once I outsource photos, there's nothing keeping me with inkjet, especially at the prices laser has come down to. Toner is expensive, but I can use it at my own pace.

I would buy extra toner because it usually comes with, but sometimes the starter it ships with is small.

Fair. But I'll still get that at the store because of my weird work discount thing. It doesn't work at staples.com, and I want every chance at saving I can get.

I was also mandatory single function. I have a good quality scanner, don't fax enough to invest in infrastructure, and rarely copy. But I'm not outfitting a business.

Ok, I found a two tray version of that one direct from Epson refurb for $179. I think that's a no brainer since I was getting ready to spend 80 bucks on ink alone.

(And contrary to my own advice, it apparently ships with full hi-capacity ink cartridges, so I won't buy extra ink. I guess you should check the specs of yours.)

Oh, but that one, the duplexer only handles standard sized paper, not the wide format. How odd.

If you get a laser, search Amazon for cartridges. I have a 1320. HP brand cartridges are around $100. Normal compatibles are $50-$80. But the lowest priced compatible is about $15 and lasts about 5,000 pages. Forget the scare stories, never had a problem with noname cartridges. Don't if the difference will be comparable for other brands or for inkjets. But definitely do an Amazon search. You might try that for your existing printer as well.

Ugh. My utorrent stopped working and I'm not sure why. Basically, every torrent I opened hangs at finding peers 0.0%. I did try various antivirus programs today (I had avast before, Ad-Aware for a couple of hours and decided I didn't like it, and eventually DL'd Avira) but my utorrent is supposed to be on the exception list from firewall, which I confirm. I tried uninstalling and reinstalling utorrent -- no dice. I finally went and deleted Avira since in most cases, it's the internet security program that messes with downloading... that didn't work either. I did perform some clean up work on my computer earlier today -- went and deleted an old version of Java (FX something), unclicked a bunch of stuff from my startup program list because the system seemed slow, but I don't think those would have effect on utorrent?

Note from one of the trackers out there:

uTorrent 3.4.1 blocked

Version 3.4.1 of uTorrent is blocked due to a bug that causes credits to be withdrawn when seeding.

The preferred version is 2.2.1 which can be found here: uTorrent 2.2.1 >[link]

If you still want to use uTorrent 3.x, you may have an earlier version in "%APPDATA%uTorrentupdates". Paste that into the address in explorer (no quotes) then click the version you want to revert to. You probably want to turn off automatic updates, too.

We've tried to report issues to the uTorrent developers in the past but they deny a problem exists and blame it on the tracker. We'll just wait for the next release and see if the problem is fixed. Then they don't have to worry about admitting to a problem, taking any blame or giving any credit.

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Great, thanks so much, Daniel. I downloaded the older version and presto, the issue is fixed. And hat-tip to the tracker you cited for a quality burn in that last sentence! Heh.