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Determine If Your Printer Is Stealing Your Time And Money
8:00AM Adam Pash | We already knew that many printers waste a lot of ink (and money), but if you’re suspicious that your printer is a repeat offender, PC World rounds up five steps to help you determine whether your printer’s stealing your time and money. More »
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8:30AM Angus Kidman | Finding somewhere to fit a printer in the office is often a hassle. Yew-Jin came up with a cheap and effective solution based around the $19.95 Rast bedside table from IKEA. More »
DIY IKEA Bedside Table Printer Rack
8:30AM Angus Kidman | Finding somewhere to fit a printer in the office is often a hassle. Yew-Jin came up with a cheap and effective solution based around the $19.95 Rast bedside table from IKEA. More »
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Turn Your Printer Into A Self-Filling Inkjet
11:15PM Kevin Purdy | If you’re serious about avoiding cartel-level prices on ink cartridges, or even refilling services, you can convert a multi-color inkjet printer into a continuous inking model for serious long-term savings. More »
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Set Default Printers Based On Network In Windows 7
4:30AM Adam Pash | Windows 7 sports a great new feature that allows you to set default printers based on what network your computer is connected to, perfect for folks who carry laptops from network to network. More »
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Use A Printer For Counting Stacks Of Pre-Printed Documents
4:00AM The How-To Geek | Reader Gavan writes in with an interesting tip for using your printer to quickly count documents that might come in handy next time you volunteer to hand out fliers. More »
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WinPrint Enables Modern Printers For DOS Applications
3:00AM Jason Fitzpatrick | Windows only: DOS isn’t the most popular operating system anymore, but you might have a legacy app or two that needs it. WinPrint links modern USB printers and older DOS applications for headache-free printing. You can tweak a host of settings in WinPrint to make sure your DOS print jobs end up arriving at your printer looking like they should. Page margins, default fonts, page orientation, and character conversion settings enable you to finely tweak data sent to the Windows-based printer. WinPrint supports any printer installed on your system, including virtual printers like PDF converters and sending text to Microsoft OneNote. If you’re looking for a way to get old records or obscure data out of an old-timey app and into your current workflow, or just to squeeze a few more years use out of a rock-solid DOS application, WinPrint can prevent you from having to scrap an application over printer incompatibility issues. WinPrint is freeware, Windows only. WinPrint [via Download Squad] More »
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Print Documents In Batches With Automator
1:00PM Gina Trapani | Reader Greg’s biggest timesaver reduces his trips to the office printer with a simple Automator workflow on his Mac. Greg writes: I work in a research lab with a shared printer that takes me around two minutes to walk to and from after printing something (desk, hallway, door, hallway, door, hallway, photocopier, hallway, door, hallway, swipe badge for access to door, hallway… you get the idea). So instead of getting up every time I had to print something, I started queuing what I wanted to print into a file called ‘To Be Printed’ on my hard drive. Then I created a program (in Automator, since I really have no background regarding programing) to grab the documents, print them, then trash them automatically. I put a link right to the program on my dock. Less walking, but also less hassle! Check out the workflow, pictured above, to make one for yourself. Nice job Greg! You just earned yourself a signed copy of our latest book, Upgrade Your Life. More »
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Stalled Printer Repair Purges Stuck Print Jobs
7:00AM Adam Pash | Windows only: Stalled Printer Repair is a portable application that detects and effectively removes stuck print jobs that are backing up your printer queue. For whatever reason, Windows can be finicky when you try deleting a print job from the queue. Often that means you’re stuck staring at the queue, trying to delete the same job over and over again, and wondering if your efforts are actually helping anything. Stalled Printer Repair hunts down stalled print jobs and removes them with the force necessary so that it actually works. It’s portable, so you can stick it on your thumb drive, it’s freeware, and it works on most versions of Windows. Stalled Printer Repair [FantasticFreeware via gHacks] More »
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Is Your Printer Wasting Your Ink And Money?
2:00AM Adam Pash | Everyone’s been there: You just bought an expensive ink cartridge for your printer, you use it for a while, and then suddenly—much sooner than seems reasonable—your printer tells you that you’re either low on or out of ink. Suspicious of the amount of ink wasted by adhering to the low ink warnings of popular printers, PC World hit the lab, testing just how much ink is left in “dead” cartridges. The results: Many manufacturer-branded (OEM) and third-party (aftermarket) vendor cartridges leave a startling amount of ink unused when they read empty. In fact, some inkjet printers force users to replace black ink cartridges when the cartridge is nearly half full. More »
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