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USB CD-RW Drives, a good buy or not? — #2

I happen to have a USB Sony Spressa CD-RW drive and I like it a lot. You can burn a CD-R at 4x speed. The only time I had a problem was when I tried to copy an Audio CD straight …
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USB CD-RW Drives, a good buy or not? — #3

i have a QPS Que drive. for the money (~$300) it was a nice buy. i have made several backup discs, as well as a number of audio CDs. the main complaint that i - and many other Que …
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Ink Jet Printer Refills — #1

Has anyone here used bulk refills? Would you recommend trying it or not trying it? I have an Epson Stylus 740. Several Website offers refills, but one lone site doesn't, stating…
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Ink Jet Printer Refills — #2

I dont know about that but why take the chance? Do what I do, I go to www.ink4art.com where I can get 3 NEW black and 3 NEW Color cartridges for only $59.99 total. Hope this hel…
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Ink Jet Printer Refills — #3

FWIW, Both manuals for my Epson 1520 and 750 state not to refill ink cartridges. I have also been told this by others "in the know" regarding Epson printers. Hope this helps. Fran…
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Ink Jet Printer Refills — #4

I use 3rd party carts from the Green Business Company (in the UK) for my Stylus 600, no difference in quality and no breakdowns in nearly 2 years, just half price carts. I'd be int…
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Ink Jet Printer Refills — #5

There are two good sources of non-epson ink cartridges - Amazon (not the .com company) and Rhino. Both are available at a lot of the mail order houses incl. MacWarehouse and MacCon…
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Ink Jet Printer Refills — #6

There are two good sources of non-epson ink cartridges - Amazon (not the .com company) and Rhino. Both are available at a lot of the mail order houses incl. MacWarehouse and MacCon…
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Ink Jet Printer Refills — #7

I have been told time and again to AVOID ink4art at ALL costs... they are very bad... don't deliever the goods, literally. Reliable resources such as ResExcellence and MacsOnly an…
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Ink Jet Printer Refills — #8

Refilling only seems to work if the cartridge is used often. I've been very successful doing it on my HP fax machine. After using 40 plus cartridges my 700 just doesn't print like…
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Ink Jet Printer Refills — #9

An Epson customer support tech once warned me not to use third-party ink refills since they clog the print heads (the ink is apparently much more syrupy). From personal experience,…
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Ink Jet Printer Refills — #10

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…
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Ink Jet Printer Refills — #11

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 …
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Ink Jet Printer Refills — #12

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…
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HP Deskjet help please! — #1

I have a new Powerbook (bronze) 400 machine and I can't get my printer to work. It is an HP Deskjet 810C. It would freeze my system everytime I wanted to print before so I decided …
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HP Deskjet help please! — #2

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…
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HP Deskjet help please! — #4

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…
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e-mail in mac OS 7.1.x — #1

I want to configure ppp under system 7.1.x on my powerbook 150 (4MB Ram). Which version of TCP/IP or open transport will work, and where to get?
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e-mail in mac OS 7.1.x — #2

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…
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e-mail in mac OS 7.1.x — #3

Kritze, You can find MacTCP at: http://www.eden.com/~arena/jagshouse...internet.html. Scroll down the page a little. David
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e-mail in mac OS 7.1.x — #4

"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…
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Suggestions for CD-R drives and media? — #1

I'm thinking of getting a CD-R drive; what I had in mind is the LaCie 8x/20x model. Are there any other 8x burners I should consider also? Also, I need some advice in choosing CD…
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Suggestions for CD-R drives and media? — #2

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…
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