On Sun, 2008-06-15 at 02:36 -0400, Ric Moore wrote: > Remember when you could by a carton of paper for $15? Ribbons for $4? > Now my damn printer uses 25 cents worth of ink when you turn it on and > it prints a damn test page. Boxes of 2000 fan-fold sheets that lasted ages, and because you're not putting sheets into a tiny hopper, you weren't forever adding paper to a printer every other day. Likewise with ribbons that lasted for years. I gave up on inkjet printers, long ago. The running costs are stupid, the disable products an environmental disaster, made all the more worse by their short lifespan. > I miss the look of a good carbon ribbon's output, too. It looked > "raised" and very professional. I'm very impressed if, these days, I receive something that's obviously hand typed. There's quite a bit of skill in hand typing something without any errors. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.25.6-55.fc9.i686 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
