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Re: Color, Inkjet, Wireless, Printer/scanner recommendation
PS - it’s in the specs as 'auto duplex' for scanning and copying. On Nov 14, 2023, at 22:00, Julian Thomas <jt@...> wrote:
I’ve been able to invoke it from VueScan. I think it’s called 'duplex'.
On Nov 14, 2023, at 21:27, Randy B. Singer <randy@...> wrote:
I have a Canon MX922 sitting right here. I’ve never found a two sided scan feature. Can’t find that feature in the specs either. —
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I shall allow no man to belittle my soul by making me hate him. - Booker T. Washington
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Re: Color, Inkjet, Wireless, Printer/scanner recommendation
I’ve been able to invoke it from VueScan. I think it’s called 'duplex'. On Nov 14, 2023, at 21:27, Randy B. Singer <randy@...> wrote:
I have a Canon MX922 sitting right here. I’ve never found a two sided scan feature. Can’t find that feature in the specs either. — jt - jt@... I shall allow no man to belittle my soul by making me hate him. - Booker T. Washington
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Re: Color, Inkjet, Wireless, Printer/scanner recommendation
On Nov 14, 2023, at 7:25 AM, Julian Thomas <jt@...> wrote:
Unfortunately it seems to have lost the automatic 2-side scan feature. I have a Canon MX922 sitting right here. I’ve never found a two sided scan feature. Can’t find that feature in the specs either. Both the MX922 and the TR8620a DO have the ability to print double sided, though. __________________________________________________ Randy B. Singer Co-author of The Macintosh Bible (4th, 5th, and 6th editions) Essential But Hard To Find Macintosh Software and Advice __________________________________________________
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This morning, I “parked” my iPad on the R front fender of my car while coercing our sweetheart English Lab into the back seat. She just LOVES to hold out for a bribe/treat, and this morning that was enough to activate my forgetfulness gene. It wasn’t until we reached our destination, 15 miles away on the local 80 mph speed limit interstate highway, that the tablet surfaced into my conscious mind once again, and of course it was no longer “resting” where I’d left it. However, Find My reported that it was only about 2 miles prior to my destination that it had become dislodged, likely onto a freeway overpass (although FindMy identified it as being adjacent to the street that crossed under the highway).
Since we’d driven on that overpass, and since FindMy gave me frequent updates to its constant apparent location, we returned to that location and saw it, wedged against the 3 ft tall wall at the edge of the overpass. Of course, with average vehicle speeds in excess of 80 mph, I did NOT dare trying to retrieve it.
Over the next 45 minutes, those updates continued, but then the reported location suddenly changed to a cluster of restaurants nestled a few hundred feet away from the overpass. The reports provided a very specific street address, at which two separate restaurants were located. I called them both, and neither reported a customer trying to leave a device at the business closest to where it had originally been reported. Curiously, however, after about 30 minutes, the device location reports returned to their original location, making me realize that they depended a LOT on the location of the identifying device. And, driving over that overpass once more revealed my iPad still resting where we’d found it previously.
I’ve been told that a highway patrol trooper will retrieve it, but that was now almost 4 hours ago. Being accelerated into a wall at 70 mph won’t be kind to it, but hope springs eternal .
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Re: Updating from an Intel to 14" M3 Pro MacBook Pro
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On Nov 14, 2023, at 10:19?AM, jimrobertson via groups.io <jimrobertson@...> wrote:
I should have asked my real question again of someone else in the group. I’m assuming the Intel only applications that populate my new MacBook Pro will run under Rosetta, and additionally assume that IF they do, it’s up to me to decide whether I should go hunting for “Universal” replacements. A few are actually labeled “other” and without exception, those are labeled as originating from “unidentified” developers. I may be back with more questions about those.?
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Re: Updating from an Intel to 14" M3 Pro MacBook Pro
On Nov 14, 2023, at 8:20 AM, Jim Saklad via groups.io <jimdoc@...> wrote:
I don’t attempt to answer questions having to do with Microsoft…
I should have asked my real question again of someone else in the group. I’m assuming the Intel only applications that populate my new MacBook Pro will run under Rosetta, and additionally assume that IF they do, it’s up to me to decide whether I should go hunting for “Universal” replacements. A few are actually labeled “other” and without exception, those are labeled as originating from “unidentified” developers. I may be back with more questions about those.?
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Re: Updating from an Intel to 14" M3 Pro MacBook Pro
On Nov 14, 2023, at 8:20 AM, Jim Saklad via groups.io <jimdoc@...> wrote:
I don’t attempt to answer questions having to do with Microsoft…
I can’t even make the following joke without offending some, but that’s never stopped me before.
Disclaimer: the following sentence may not—read doesn’t—reflect my own politics. One of my neighbors describes my new home town of Bozeman, MT as “an island of blue in a sea of reality.” One can also see Microsoft in similar light.
Less than 48 hours ago, I was still in NYC. In the Chelsea neighborhood (beneath the lovely HighLine “rails to trails” walking path) there exist two stores, one labeled Microsoft, the other labeled by a holiday-refreshed bitten-Apple logo. Looking in to the former, one sees a sea of Blue Shirts, virtually unpolluted by any customers. In the latter, two pleasant red T-shirted greeters are visible at the door, and through the glass windows one sees a smattering of those same red shirts amid hordes of smiling visitors.
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Jim Robertson
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Re: Color, Inkjet, Wireless, Printer/scanner recommendation
Unfortunately it seems to have lost the automatic 2-side scan feature.
Julian Thomas - Sent from my Ipad
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On Nov 14, 2023, at 05:37, Randy B. Singer <randy@...> wrote:
The excellent all-in-one Canon Pixma MX922 that I recommended a bunch of years ago, was discontinued several years ago.
The logical successor is:
Canon PIXMA TR8620a
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Re: Updating from an Intel to 14" M3 Pro MacBook Pro
Jim Robertson wrote: My new laptop is on its way, directly from Shanghai. My current plan is to use Migration Assistant to populate it. My Late 2019 16” ?MacBook Pro is running Ventura. I have TB 3/4 cables available. I have a few questions:
- Should I update the current computer to Sonoma before doing the Migration Assistant?
- Should I do the migration directly from the 2019 computer, or should I do it from my SuperDuper! clone (in which case of course I’d need to update the clone first as well. The clone is on a TB3-equipped SSD stick.
- I assume that I’ll need to do some extra work to get my MS Office updated to versions that run natively on the Apple Silicon SOC (or maybe not; my MS Office Apps are all listed as “Universal” and labeled as version 16.78.3). However, I do have SOME applications that are labeled as “Intel” ?How do I accomplish that part of the migration?
I would: - Update the clone backup at the last minute before copying from the old laptop, then set it aside.
- Boot up the new laptop, do the basic start-up stuff, …
- … make sure it is up-to-date with Sonoma, then
- connect the 2 laptops via Thunderbolt, and use Migration Assistant to complete the installation on the new machine directly from the old machine.
- Do NOTHING with the clone for a while until you are sure all the important things are working correctly on the new machine,
- THEN update the clone from the new machine.
I don’t attempt to answer questions having to do with Microsoft…
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Updating from an Intel to 14" M3 Pro MacBook Pro
My new laptop is on its way, directly from Shanghai. My current plan is to use Migration Assistant to populate it. My Late 2019 16” ?MacBook Pro is running Ventura. I have TB 3/4 cables available. I have a few questions: - Should I update the current computer to Sonoma before doing the Migration Assistant?
- Should I do the migration directly from the 2019 computer, or should I do it from my SuperDuper! clone (in which case of course I’d need to update the clone first as well. The clone is on a TB3-equipped SSD stick.
- I assume that I’ll need to do some extra work to get my MS Office updated to versions that run natively on the Apple Silicon SOC (or maybe not; my MS Office Apps are all listed as “Universal” and labeled as version 16.78.3). However, I do have SOME applications that are labeled as “Intel” ?How do I accomplish that part of the migration?
I should say a bit about why I’m updating now: - I’m assuming that I’m likely at a flex point in the trade-in value of my older laptop because likely it will no longer receive updates after one or two more fall OS version releases.
- As I get older, my travel briefcase gets heavier each year, and the improvement in screen brightness and resolution will more than make up for the slightly smaller screen size. Indeed, one of the things holding me back from updating was the fear that my fingers wouldn’t accommodate to a “tighter” keyboard, but I’ve just learned that the 14” and 16” keyboards are the same.
- I rarely use the context-sensitive strip of icons above the numerals on my older computer.
Any particular “gotchas” to watch out for?
One other “story.” I spent almost 40 years within 100 miles of 1 Infinite Loop and had the pleasure of looking at the Apple Spaceship both from the SJO and SFO landing patterns AND from inside on numerous occasions, as well as at LEAST a half dozen Apple Retail emporia within easy driving distance much of that time, but here in MT there is none within <500 miles. I did a bit of hands on at Apple Fifth Avenue last week during a one week stay with my son, learning in the process: - Apple sales associates don’t know as much as they used to about their own products
- The “Today at Apple” sessions are targeted almost exclusively at beginners
- Although the entire population of my retirement home in college town MT would fit into a single city block of Jackson Heights (Queens) NY, in many ways it’s easier to get around in NYC than it is here!at
- “Eataly” is just as delightful as ever (to a guy who’s at no risk of becoming an IV drug user as long as no one figures out a way to mainline tagliatelle).
- This was my first opportunity to use Apple’s iOS 17 Maps app for Mass Transit (and that includes walking among 10s of thousands of pedestrians). One wonders if even Steve Jobs had a clue how essential for modern daily life the original iPhone would become. The other thing that amazed me is that New Yorkers walk an enormous amount, and far fewer of them are obese than in most of Ameri”car.” I’m pretty sure that sentence could be reconstructed as a tautology!
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Re: Good Email Service Providers?
Many thanks to all those who gave suggestions; that was a great help.
We are going to try Randy’s suggestion of ICDSoft. At first it looked complicated because it includes an option for a website, which we don’t want to use at this time. However, after viewing their online help I saw that it’s easy to create and configure email addresses via their control panel. I sent an email to their support to verify that and, as both Randy and Bayswater mentioned, very shortly received an informative response.
Now we just need to think of a good domain name :-).
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On Nov 13, 2023, at 4:24?AM, Randy B. Singer <randy@...> wrote:
If you don’t mind paying a reasonable fee, these are the folks that I use, and they are awesome:
ICDSoft
For $96/year I get all of the bells and whistles and great 24/7 service! (Support is via a dedicated Web portal. Answers arrive in less than 10 minutes no matter when you ask them! However, there is no telephone support.) A huge amount of Web space, unlimited e-mail addresses and e-mail hosting, the facility to quickly and easily set up e-mail discussion lists, etc. Renewal of my domain name only costs $8.38. They never seem to experience any down time.
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Re: Color, Inkjet, Wireless, Printer/scanner recommendation
On Nov 13, 2023, at 1:31 PM, Pat Taylor via groups.io <pat412@...> wrote:
I got the Canon MX920 on Randy’s recommendation several years ago and have been 100% pleased with it. The excellent all-in-one Canon Pixma MX922 that I recommended a bunch of years ago, was discontinued several years ago. The logical successor is: Canon PIXMA TR8620a $150 direct from Canon: $139 from Amazon Macintosh downloadable drivers and manual: <> Note that there is a TR8620 and a TR8620a model. They are identical, except the “TR8620” (no “a”) has Bluetooth as well as AirPrint. The "a" model only has AirPrint. If you have an iPhone and a Mac, you only need AirPrint. But you need Bluetooth if you have an Android phone (e.g. Samsung). So…if you have a Macintosh and an iPhone, EITHER model will be fine. The "a" model will be cheaper. Excellent source for ink cartridges when you run out: $30 for all 5 cartridges If you want the “MEGATANK” equivalent of the TR8620a this is it: Canon PIXMA G4210 Wireless MegaTank All-in-One Printer $249 __________________________________________________ Randy B. Singer Co-author of The Macintosh Bible (4th, 5th, and 6th editions) Essential But Hard To Find Macintosh Software and Advice __________________________________________________
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Re: Color, Inkjet, Wireless, Printer/scanner recommendation
I got the Canon MX920 on Randy’s recommendation several years ago and have been 100% pleased with it.
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On Nov 13, 2023, at 12:57?PM, Paul via groups.io <paul@...> wrote:
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Take a look at the Epson EcoTank printers. Most of the clients who have them really like them. But Randy has often recommended the Canon Pixma MX920,
Paul
I'd appreciate to hear recommendations for a?Color, Inkjet, Wireless, Printer/scanner, that can print on card stock as well as 20 lb. bond paper. The new printer will be replacing an aging, erratic performing Canon TR8500 Series 2, unit.
Thank you,
John Mills
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Re: Color, Inkjet, Wireless, Printer/scanner recommendation
John Mills wrote: I'd appreciate to hear recommendations for a?Color, Inkjet, Wireless, Printer/scanner, that can print on card stock as well as 20 lb. bond paper. The new printer will be replacing an aging, erratic performing Canon TR8500 Series 2, unit.
Paul replied: Take a look at the Epson EcoTank printers. Most of the clients who have them really like them. But Randy has often recommended the Canon Pixma MX920,
What you need for a printer varies a LOT with individual needs. Over the years I’ve had B&W inkjets, color inkjets, B&W lasers, and one color laser. (And, of course, dot-matrix printers back in the late ’80’s.)
Since my house fire, I’ve ONLY had a good B&W laser. I decided to mostly stop accumulating paper stuff, and all my images are digital anyway.
When I *really* want a good color print, I take the image, edited, cropped, and/or tweaked as needed, and get it printed someplace where they have REALLY good printers, usually with more permanent inks than your home printer usually has.
When I decided to make gift prints for friends, I sent the images to a company that makes archival prints in larger sizes on metal.
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Re: Color, Inkjet, Wireless, Printer/scanner recommendation
This is what I got:
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Re: Color, Inkjet, Wireless, Printer/scanner recommendation
HI
Take a look at the Epson EcoTank printers. Most of the clients who have them really like them. But Randy has often recommended the Canon Pixma MX920,
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I'd appreciate to hear recommendations for a?Color, Inkjet, Wireless, Printer/scanner, that can print on card stock as well as 20 lb. bond paper. The new printer will be replacing an aging, erratic performing Canon TR8500 Series 2, unit.
Thank you,
John Mills
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Re: Color, Inkjet, Wireless, Printer/scanner recommendation
I got a Canon Pixma last year and love it.
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On Nov 13, 2023, at 10:50 AM, jsm5320432 via groups.io <jsm5320432@...> wrote:
?I'd appreciate to hear recommendations for a?Color, Inkjet, Wireless, Printer/scanner, that can print on card stock as well as 20 lb. bond paper. The new printer will be replacing an aging, erratic performing Canon TR8500 Series 2, unit.
Thank you,
John Mills
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Janet
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Color, Inkjet, Wireless, Printer/scanner recommendation
I'd appreciate to hear recommendations for a?Color, Inkjet, Wireless, Printer/scanner, that can print on card stock as well as 20 lb. bond paper. The new printer will be replacing an aging, erratic performing Canon TR8500 Series 2, unit.
Thank you,
John Mills
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Re: Good Email Service Providers?
I’ll add a vote for ICDSoft. ?I’ve been using them for many years. ? Never lost anything, and maybe one outage for a few minutes in 15 or more years. ?When I have reported a problem or asked a question, I’ve had a response and solution within a few minutes. ?
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NTFS (Windows Drives) on Mac
BundleHunt has Easus NTFS for $6. I highly recommend getting an NTFS driver when you see one cheap. I believe it’s a must have for Macs (should be in the OS) so grab a license when you see a deal. I have not personally used Easus NTFS recently, but I’ve used several other brands and all have worked just fine.?
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