Erps...i think it's more or less confirmed...
...I've definitely lost my pencil case. Gaahh wtf.
Time to go shopping once again. I'll need to especially make a personal selection for my red pen...this red pen is of particular importance, because of reasons best known to myself and one other. Lol.
Oh, and errr i'm very grateful to my uncle for giving me an inkjet printer last year that i could use in my room, instead of having to drag my laptop out and plug it into the one outside every time i had to print important documents.
I have to say though (and it must be noted that my uncle won this printer in some draw and did not choose this printer model for me) that HP printers are HORRIBLE. Don't ever get one of these. Sorry Hewlett Packard, but my experience so far with this printer of yours is well...quite unsatisfactory. I'm sticking to Canon, next time.
Firstly, the ink for this Hewlett Packard F2235 gets used up VERY quickly, compared to my Canon Pixma iP3000, i.e. the family printer that sits outside my room. The last time, i only printed around 80 odd pages before the ink had to be replaced. I'm pretty sure my Canon Pixma can do better, from my past experiences. I've had to switch to low-quality printing already for my HP printer, or else i'd cringe at the loss of ink for every page i printed.
And the cost of the ink cartridges? Well, my HP ink gets used up faster, but guess what, one black ink cartridge costs me freakin $43 compared to like $16 for my Canon black ink cartridge. Maybe i'm getting my figures wrong, because my mum might have quoted me the colour ink cartridge price, but still, i don't think the value is off by much. My mum WAS sure that the cost of any Canon ink cartridge fell FAR below $43.
And finally, this HP printer is just so counter-intuitive and DUMB, somehow. It's got a scanner, which is cool, but it can't print duplex (meaning automatically on both sides of a page), while my old, old Canon printer can. If i make a mistake and want to cancel a print job, right-clicking on that small icon and cancelling it would take too long, and by the time the signal reaches the printer, another page has been printed.
So, for my Canon printer, i could turn the printer off or disconnect the USB cable, and the print job is automatically cancelled. And once i turned the printer back on, it's ready to be used again. Very convenient. On the other hand, if i do the same thing for my HP printer, the printer jams up. When i then go to the small icon and try to delete the print job, the printer goes into this state where it tries but cannot seem to cancel the print jobs. It remains in the state of "deleting" and turning the printer off and on doesn't work.
I have to restart the HP printer AND my freakin computer before i can get any printing done again. And once my printer starts up...it start PERFORMING THE PRINT JOBS THAT I HAD BEEN TRYING TO CANCEL BEFORE I RESTARTED THE COMPUTER. And there's no icon where i can go and cancel the old print jobs either. I just have to reach over and press this red X button, and by then a page or two have been printed. *cringes*
Ahwell. I'll keep this printer for emergency photocopying jobs. In the meantime, the printer outside my room is out of ink. (My dad keeps stocking up ink for his own printer - he has at least four colour and two black ink cartridges in stock - but the Canon Pixma iP3000 printer seems rather neglected...sigh has the family printer become my responsibility without my knowledge?)
So i'm going to have to leave some print jobs for school. Printing in school is damn cheap. Four cents a page nia...with the goddamn HP printer, it's like FIFTY cents a page even when the printer is my own personal one. What the hell.
