New Multifunction Printer

The very old HP inkjet printer we had for our color printing was not playing well with all of our new computers. Windows Vista doesn't play well with much of anything older than it is and our MacBook Air computers seemed to get stymied by the little print server doo-dad that put the printer on the network. The little Dell Mini running Linux was completely flummoxed by the print server doo-dad. That left a couple of notebook computers running Windows XP that could use the printer and we don't use those computers any longer!

We needed to get a modern color printer. Off to Costco we went.

We came home with a Canon PIXMA MP980. This is a nifty printer. It connects to our wireless network and all of our computers can use it. (Well, I haven't tried the Linux system yet and, since I now have a Mac, I don't use it much.) It has six ink cartridges (including gray) for our photo-printing pleasure. It copies. It scans. It scans slides! So I got to free up some real estate by replacing the old printer and scanner with one, smaller device. Ain't technology grand?!

Did I say it scans slides? I had to try that feature out. You might have heard that I have thousands of family slides that need scanning. Here are the next 100!

As we saw last time, Jack has gotten shutter happy. We're now getting a lot of pictures of the same event with little or no change in the cast of characters from slide to slide. Mom suggested that I could scan only a small portion of the slides. Up to now there weren't many duplicates. But the problem with deciding which to scan pretty much requires scanning them to see which to scan. So they're still all getting scanned. I suppose I could get a little previewer to weed out the pictures that are blurry or badly composed versions of more successful pictures.

In the middle of these pictures is the first (and only, so far) picture with all five kids.

Jack still hasn't made an appearance with Karen.

Here's Karen!

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