Epson isn't stupid. Like Gillette's classic tome, "we make our money selling blades, not by selling razors.." Epson kills you on ink. The cartridges are purposely difficult to ref…

In my experience Epson printers print mush higher quality color photos (especially when using photo paper). The trade off is that the ink mechanism is very sensitive to clogs. One …

My concern, in addition to all the ones mentioned already, is the fact that when refilling, it would be nearly impossible to put in exactly the right amount of ink, therefore messi…

Does the PowerBook have MacOS 9 on it? If so, you need this driver for OS 9: http://www.hp.com./cposupport/printe...900en.hqx.html if HP error message stymies installation of d…

Thanks, I'l still working on it. However, I am running OS 8.6 Danoir

This might not help you since I tried this on desktop macs, but here goes. On several different machines when printing failed, I plugged the printer in the modem port and made the…

You will need to use MacTCP which is getting hard to find these days. Open Transport doesn't work on systems older than 7.5.3 If you can find an old copy of the book Macintosh Int…

Kritze, You can find MacTCP at: http://www.eden.com/~arena/jagshouse...internet.html. Scroll down the page a little. David

"can't speak for anyone else, but that URL is a 404 (file not found) in my neighborhood" Mr. Rogers PS: just figured out why, mistake by the one who posted it... you MUST put a…

Well, while it isn't an 8x drive, I have had very good experiences with Yamaha 4416 and 6416 drives (4x4x16 and 6x4x16, respectively). I found them to be unusually reliable. Of the…

If you have the room for an internal drive, get one of those and save some money. I was able to purchase Panasonic's 4x8x internal SCSI drive a year and a half ago for $299 (compar…

Our LaCie drive (based on an ugly Sony mechanism) had been messing up left and right lately, no matter what kind of media we used. Then we started using Memorex gold discs, and it'…

although they are kind of pricey, Yamaha media really works well. I have never (knock on wood) had a coaster with a Yamaha CD-R.

Each floppy has to be named exactly what it is asking for. Rename the floppy to Install 1 and all will be well. You can also create floppy images using Disk Copy that will work. …

I did that and I got the message, " although this is the correct name it is not the correct disk. Any thing else?

Hi, I still need some help here. As I mentioned, I did the rename of the floppy and it didn't work. More importantly, however, why didn't it just read the file of the zip, and h…

(sigh) i have had this problem, it has been a long time ago and was a different software package of course... let's see if i can recall. it is a disk image problem, the images on…

I am not exactly sure what you mean by the disk image. But, at any rate this is what I am doing, I am using my iMac to download and unstuff any and all files that need to go to th…

Hey - i wanna buy a G4 imac with a superdrive and i was wondering how much time it took to burn a full length DVD. Anybody know? Also can you use the computer during this time? …

It's a 2x Burn Speed for DVDs. I think that means the 1 hour disc would take 30 minutes to burn. At $5 a disc, I wouldn't risk using the computer at the same time. That's an expen…

Head over to www.cd-recordable.com DVD-R's are $2.99 a piece....Even come with Jewel Cases and work GREAT in the new iMac! -Matt

I burned a full DVD in DVD Studio Pro the other day on a 933 G4 tower and it took about 50 minutes to render the disk and burn it.

Quote: It's a 2x Burn Speed for DVDs. I think that means the 1 hour disc would take 30 minutes to burn. I think 2x means that it will take twice the amount …

Quote: Originally posted by JLFanboy: <STRONG> I think 2x means that it will take twice the amount of time that a video runs to compress and burn it, i.e. a 1 hou…

Also, the DVD-RW drives in the new iMacs (104) do have Burn-Proof, so you should be OK to multitask. (this is straight from Pioneer's website.) -Matt