Choosing the right cartridge
We've had people come in to buy an ink cartridge and they have no idea what they need; quite often, they don't even know what printer they have - and we have even had people who've bought an ink cartridge only because it was the "right" brand - and then brought it back later because it did not work with their computer. As recently as last week, we had someone bring back an inkjet cartridge because it has "stopped working" - after six weeks printing 31 pages per day. We assume that you know what you need; if you don't know what you need, ask someone to help you.
The purpose of this article is to educate you on buying the right ink cartridge…
Cleaning Clogged Inkjets
When you change an inkjet cartridge, your computer will usually prompt you to clean the print heads and / or nozzles and may require a 'calibration' printout. If you don't use your printer very often, we recommend that you do this manually at least once per month to keep the print heads from coagulating ...
Laser or Inkjet? … things to consider when buying a new printer
We get several people coming in asking for recommendations about which printer to buy. Whether you buy inkjet or laser depends on several things. If you are looking for speed, quality, volume, long life of the documents you print, and an overall lower cost of ownership, go with laser. If you print in low volume (10-12 pages per day) or you are looking to print photographic images, choose an inkjet.
The Rename
When you need to rename just one file or just a few, the utilities provided with the operating system work great. But what if you want to rename LOTS of files? What if you want to rename them so that they are consistently named? What if you want to process them in a batch? This is where THE RENAME excels. Written by Hervé Thouzard, The Rename allows you to do all of these tasks - allowing you to preview your changes and auditing for conflicts BEFORE the rename actually occurs. It’s freeware. You may donate to the author or support cancer research via the author’s website.
Filezilla
We have used a variety of FTP clients and servers to transfer data between locations. Typically, our clients (even the big ones) use the FTP tools included with the operating system. It’s great that they are there - and when used only occasionally or to do something quick and dirty - they do the job - but ... we’ve encountered the occasional error with these applications because they are typically single-threaded applications and choke when you feed them large files.
An open source application, FileZilla is a fast FTP and SFTP client for Windows with a lot of features. Both client and server modules are available.