So, the printer in my last post was a piece of crap. Don't even consider buying it. It was awful. Terrible. I took a gamble, and remembered while I don't like gambling. Took it back this morning.
BUT. I have another new printer, one I'm already very happy with. No, it's not a laser, it's just an inkjet, and actually it's a PIXMA like my last printer so I'm already familiar with the series. One of the reasons I decided on it (aside from the hundreds of positive reviews on Amazon) was because I called Canon and asked if their ink was in any way waterproof. The guy told me that if I "were to drop a photo [from the printer] in a puddle of water and picked it up right away, it would be fine." Well, I tested it when I got home, and no, that's not true at all. Why do people lie? Still, it's a good printer, I'm just a little miffed that I was misled.
Which brings me to a short tangent: I called Brother yesterday asking after one of the color laser printers I was looking at, and asked them to confirm or deny a rumor for me. I'd read in a review that if any of the color cartridges were low, it wouldn't print black and white. The lady on the phone assured me that even if a color cartridge was empty, I could print black and white. But just to be sure, I emailed them too and asked the same question... and was told that no, it wouldn't print black and white if a color cartridge was empty. I mean really?
Anyway here's the new printer/scanner/copier and hooray I have a scanner again!
I screwed around with some of the color settings and tried some different papers and got some really, really impressive results. I'm stoked. Just wish the ink was waterproof like other photo printers have started to do. (That way when my good friend Stu spills a cup of water in my button bowl they won't be ruined!)
Okay and to continue the printer shenanigans, I needed to find the perfect paper for my buttons. The Matte Photo Paper included with my printer was really pretty, but too thick -- the mylar couldn't wrap around all the way on a few buttons I made with that (expensive) stock. Enter Canon High Resolution Paper, (which no stores actually carry I might add) the cheaper alternative. I'm pretty confident it'll be a great paper, but I wanted to make sure that it wasn't thick paper. So what do I do? I call Canon. Why? Because their website is useless and Amazon doesn't list the paper weight. But also because I'm an idiot a masochist.
Spoke with one Canon representative who put me on hold twice and finally concluded that it was between 17# and 28# since that's the printer's range of capabilities (nevermind that the Canon matte photo paper was at least 60#). I pose the question that if Canon doesn't know how thick its paper is, who could I ask? She put me on hold and actually
transferred me (8 minutes on the phone so far) to Jennifer, who spent most of our ten minutes being silent, putting me on hold or telling me the same thing the first lady told me. FINALLY, after wagering a wild guess at the thickness and putting me on hold again, she came back with a solid answer (or at least a lie in the form of an answer): 28#.
So for anyone wondering, Canon High Resolution Paper has a weight of 28#, just a bit thicker than normal printer paper. Took me 21 minutes on the phone with Canon but dammit now I know! And now I can order it and wait for it to get here hooray.
Also I'm really digging the track "When The Day Met The Night" on Panic! At the Disco's newest album,
Pretty. Odd.
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