I've got the HP 7680 and 7780 and both of them have been wonderful printers. They aren't cheap, but they deliver. Looks like the HP you linked to is a stripped down version of that product line.

As you might recall, the work laptop was having wi-fi issues. I brought it to the Genius Bar, and they re-installed the OS on top (I think that's how they phrased it), so not wiping the drive, and leaving the applications and documents, just reinstalling the system. They said it could cause havoc with some applications.

Two of the apps I have been having trouble with just would not open. Not even into the splash screen. Last night, on a whim of boredom in tech rehearsal, I opened Vectorworks, and it actually opened! So then I try ProTools, and it too is working again!

Um. does OS-X have some kind of self-healing thing? Has it gone Borg or Wraith on me? If so. Totally cool. If not, I'm wondering if it's going to STOP working again on me.

I'm looking for library software, something where I can enter case files (PDFs), contacts, log calls and flag for follow-up...and be able to export into excel to play with data.

Any recs?

funny thing here at work. OK, so we are using a little model airplane remote to control a chair on stage. It moves left right forward back kind of thing (Marley proving he is real, scoops up Scrooge and shuffles him around the room). So the crew is charging up the transmitters battery, and notice the wall wart has two LED's, one labeled TX, the other RX. Only the TX is lit. So they call me over:

We dunno what the TX and RX stands for. I guessed the TX was lit because it knew we were in Texas. And the RX is for prescription because we work in theater. But Travis doubts that's the reasons.

Of course, the charger is used for both the remote control (TX) and the airplane receiver (RX). Since we are only using the remote control, only that LED is lit. Still, it was kinda funny. As if a little wall wart knew what state it was in, and had a light just for Texas.

I'm in the process of transferring programs and files from my ancient XP desktop to my new Vista (blech) laptop. I've successfully managed to network the two computers and the printer, but when I print from the laptop to the printer, it prints gibberish--and sometimes pages and pages and pages of gibberish.

I've been working on it for an hour and my head hurts, so I'm taking a break, but I thought I'd check here to see if anyone has any advice before I try again. My next step will be connecting the printer directly to the laptop to see if it's a networking or Vista problem.

Try going to the printer vendor's web site, downloading the latest Vista driver, and reinstalling it.

HP insists my printer is Vista compatible and therefore didn't make a new driver, and yet I see lots of people complaining about the same problem I'm having. So far none of their solutions have worked for me, although it's powered off now because it just kept going and going and going. Maybe a day with no juice will reset it?

What model printer? And did it still print okay from the other computer on the network?

HP inkjet 5550. It did print ok from the XP computer, until the latest tests, and now all it'll print is the gibberish, hence the time-out.

You know, all this time I thought "sudo" meant "super-user do" but it really means "switch users during operation." Boringer.