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"The Natural Philosopher" wrote in message
... soup wrote: Steve Firth wrote: Very few people will pay the price of a good printer. Nor will they appreciate the difference between a good printer and ****e. Most people do not need a good printer why pay for a decent printer when all you need is a few representations of your work (there are very few complete garbage printers these days). Speak for yourself. It was very easy to spot the people whose smeared and smudged inkjet CV's came through the post, compared with those who had taken teh trouble to get to a decent crisp laserjet. TBH if I'm hiring, the quality of their home printer or whether they've just used the one in the office has very little to do with what I want them to do. |
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The Natural Philosopher wrote:
It was very easy to spot the people whose smeared and smudged inkjet CV's came through the post, compared with those who had taken teh trouble to get to a decent crisp laserjet. Why are people printing out CVs on home printers? CVs aside if I want a photo printed would go to Boots(WHY) and let them worry about capital costs, cost of consumables, clogged nozzles, all the rest. (YMMV) And you can get very good but old laserjets very cheap these days. As cheap as the inkjet allready on my desk? |
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soup wrote:
The Natural Philosopher wrote: It was very easy to spot the people whose smeared and smudged inkjet CV's came through the post, compared with those who had taken teh trouble to get to a decent crisp laserjet. Why are people printing out CVs on home printers? CVs aside if I want a photo printed would go to Boots(WHY) and let them worry about capital costs, cost of consumables, clogged nozzles, all the rest. (YMMV) And you can get very good but old laserjets very cheap these days. As cheap as the inkjet allready on my desk? Over 1000 sheets, cheaper. |
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On Sat, 28 Feb 2009 12:23:35 -0000, Clive George wrote:
TBH if I'm hiring, the quality of their home printer or whether they've just used the one in the office has very little to do with what I want them to do. I suspect that depends on how many applications you have to sort through to get a "short list" of 50... Presentation is all for that first impression. If some one hasn't put the tiny amount of effort in to make the best first impression what does it say about their overall attitude? -- Cheers Dave. |
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We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember The Natural Philosopher saying something like: As usual with Linux then ;-) As compared with windows, in which if there isn't a correct driver, you are totally shagged.. There's nearly always a generic driver in Windows that works to provide basic functionality, no matter what printer I've used. Case in point, my latest HP - I couldn't be doing with all that system-clogging crap HP wanted to put on, so it's running happily on a Windows driver and prints anything I throw at it. |
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The Natural Philosopher writes: soup wrote: Steve Firth wrote: Very few people will pay the price of a good printer. Nor will they appreciate the difference between a good printer and ****e. Most people do not need a good printer why pay for a decent printer when all you need is a few representations of your work (there are very few complete garbage printers these days). Speak for yourself. It was very easy to spot the people whose smeared and smudged inkjet CV's came through the post, compared with those who had taken teh trouble to get to a decent crisp laserjet. I can't remember the last time I actually got a paper CV through the post. I've had a couple as Word documents with embedded macro viruses though. -- Andrew Gabriel [email address is not usable -- followup in the newsgroup] |
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In message , Tim Lamb
writes I have been looking for a cheap printer to replace the gummed up inkjet my wife used to use before we bought her a laptop. I now get irregular e-mails requesting that such and such letter/recipe/birth/marriage/death etc. attachment should be printed on the office m/c. I don't leave my PC switched on so networking won't work and she works at the other end of the house so picking up copy is inconvenient. I confidently expected dot matrix printers to be dirt cheap by now and half promised one as a birthday pressie. 150ukp they must be joking! For 70ukp I can get an entry level laser inc. usb cable. Is there something I should know? economies of scale, innit I need a dot matrix for printing labels, yes they are no longer cheap The same is happening with IDE hard drives I noticed last week - getting more expensive that the equivalent SATA ones If you want cheap, I just bought a Canon i2600 for £29.99 + It does what's required of it, consumables are reasonable -- geoff |
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geoff wrote:
I need a dot matrix for printing labels, yes they are no longer cheap They're also essential for multipart forms, something that lasers and inkjets are useless for, so they still have a place but it's in volume commercial printing. FWIW my own business has used Xerox solid ink printers for years. The print quality is much better than laser and the running costs are a lot lower. |
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On 28 Feb, 12:26, soup wrote:
Why are people printing out CVs on home printers? I work in a field where almost all recruitment is done through agencies. So my CV is carefully edited, distributed by email, then printed out on any old **** in the pondlife's office. 8-( I always take a decent copy with me when I go for the interview. |
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In message , geoff
writes For 70ukp I can get an entry level laser inc. usb cable. Is there something I should know? economies of scale, innit I need a dot matrix for printing labels, yes they are no longer cheap The same is happening with IDE hard drives I noticed last week - getting more expensive that the equivalent SATA ones If you want cheap, I just bought a Canon i2600 for £29.99 + It does what's required of it, consumables are reasonable Cost is secondary to standby reliability. The use will probably not exceed 3 copies once per week! Amazon are sending me an HP laserjet p1006 shortly. From the interest shown, should I expect a raft of reasons why this is a bum decision? regards -- Tim Lamb |
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Tim Lamb wrote:
Amazon are sending me an HP laserjet p1006 shortly. How kind of them! That (or a similar product from the same or a different company) would have been my choice as well. -- Rod Hypothyroidism is a seriously debilitating condition with an insidious onset. Although common it frequently goes undiagnosed. www.thyromind.info www.thyroiduk.org www.altsupportthyroid.org |
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Appin wrote:
I wouldn't employ anyone who used Word, myself, Whether you love Word or hate it, in the real world isn't that an awfully broad and haphazard method of screening applicants...?! David |
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Lobster wrote:
Appin wrote: I wouldn't employ anyone who used Word, myself, Whether you love Word or hate it, in the real world isn't that an awfully broad and haphazard method of screening applicants...?! David And if an agency is involved, well, many of them insist on Word format. (Won't even accept RTF in many cases. Nor any other format whatsoever.) This is obviously because they copy and paste the information into their standard CV format - leaving out anything that could cut them out of the loop and lose their fees. -- Rod Hypothyroidism is a seriously debilitating condition with an insidious onset. Although common it frequently goes undiagnosed. www.thyromind.info www.thyroiduk.org www.altsupportthyroid.org |
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Appin wrote:
I wouldn't employ anyone who used Word, myself Why? Surely 90%+ of all businesses use Word (blinking Bill gets everywhere), and while Open Office (for instance)can open DOC files I don't think Word can open ODF files. So it would seem to make sense to send any correspondence to companies as a DOC file. |
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Owain wrote:
Lobster wrote: Appin wrote: I wouldn't employ anyone who used Word, myself, Whether you love Word or hate it, in the real world isn't that an awfully broad and haphazard method of screening applicants...?! Considerably more scientific (and probably useful) than graphology or astrology (both of which I have seen used by local government personnel responsible for recruitment). Astrology? For real? David |
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On Sun, 01 Mar 2009 18:39:26 GMT, soup wrote:
Why? Surely 90%+ of all businesses use Word (blinking Bill gets everywhere), and while Open Office (for instance)can open DOC files I don't think Word can open ODF files. So it would seem to make sense to send any correspondence to companies as a DOC file. Far more sense to send it as a .pdf, not quite as easy to edit and far more likely to appear the same on their machine as it does on yours. -- Cheers Dave. |
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"Huge" wrote in message ... On 2009-03-01, Owain wrote: Lobster wrote: Appin wrote: I wouldn't employ anyone who used Word, myself, Whether you love Word or hate it, in the real world isn't that an awfully broad and haphazard method of screening applicants...?! Considerably more scientific (and probably useful) than graphology or astrology (both of which I have seen used by local government personnel responsible for recruitment). I have been subjected to graphology by a large multinational. I wrote the sample in block capitals and commented to the HR person that graphology was so much tidier and less smelly than haruspicy. For some reason I didn't get the job. I'm very partial to "The Office" shortlisting method: Throw half the applications away at random - the last thing you want to do is employ an unlucky person Can't argue with that. -- Bob Mannix (anti-spam is as easy as 1-2-3 - not |
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Bob Mannix wrote:
Throw half the applications away at random - the last thing you want to do is employ an unlucky person Someone I worked with used to throw them downstairs then pick a few from the middle steps. He claimed this weeded out those who wrote too much, those who wrote too little and the unlucky. |
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On Sun, 01 Mar 2009 21:47:45 +0000, Dave Liquorice wrote:
On Sun, 01 Mar 2009 18:39:26 GMT, soup wrote: Why? Surely 90%+ of all businesses use Word (blinking Bill gets everywhere), and while Open Office (for instance)can open DOC files I don't think Word can open ODF files. So it would seem to make sense to send any correspondence to companies as a DOC file. Far more sense to send it as a .pdf, not quite as easy to edit and far more likely to appear the same on their machine as it does on yours. Although by that metric (much as I agree), sending it as an image would work even better (the electronic equivalent of posting it) - but I've never heard of anyone doing that. I use Openoffice for just about everything, and it drives me nuts that I have to go and locate a Windows machine with Word on it every time I'm sending something "off site" in electronic form, purely so I can verify that OO has correctly saved in Word format properly & that the doc will look more or less as it should for the recipient. cheers Jules |
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On Mon, 02 Mar 2009 08:48:04 -0600, Jules wrote:
I use Openoffice for just about everything, and it drives me nuts that I have to go and locate a Windows machine with Word on it every time I'm sending something "off site" in electronic form, purely so I can verify that OO has correctly saved in Word format properly & that the doc will look more or less as it should for the recipient. How often does OOo not save as M$ expects? I'm not overly concerned about complex documents just yer run of the mill ordinary letter with maybe an image and/or table. Says him thinking that when SWMBO'd computer gets replaced it's not going to get M$ Office. Indeed I'd like to move to linux but that might be pushing things a bit to far... -- Cheers Dave. |
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In article , Stephen Howard
writes Assuming the nozzle is in the cartridge, simply remove it from the printer and dip the relevant end into a cup of near boiling water for ten seconds or so. It isn't in Epson's' which is why their ink is cheaper than HP. However when you buy a new HP ink you get a new nozzle etc. which does help. i have thrown away several Epson's as there was no way to unblock them and no repair shop would look at them once they were a few years old, yet they were generally sturdier built and didn't blow your eyeballs off with their colours as sometimes happens in HPs. -- Janet Tweedy Dalmatian Telegraph http://www.lancedal.demon.co.uk |
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Janet Tweedy wrote:
It isn't in Epson's' which is why their ink is cheaper than HP. However when you buy a new HP ink you get a new nozzle etc. which does help. i have thrown away several Epson's as there was no way to unblock them and no repair shop would look at them once they were a few years old, yet they were generally sturdier built and didn't blow your eyeballs off with their colours as sometimes happens in HPs. It is possible to unblock Epson nozzles in a sonic bath. Not everyone has access to such a device and TBH very few people can tolerate the noise. |
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Janet Tweedy wrote: It isn't in Epson's' which is why their ink is cheaper than HP. However when you buy a new HP ink you get a new nozzle etc. which does help. i have thrown away several Epson's as there was no way to unblock them and no repair shop would look at them once they were a few years old, yet they were generally sturdier built and didn't blow your eyeballs off with their colours as sometimes happens in HPs. Last Epsom I had was a Stylus colour 600 - and you can remove the head for cleaning. Soaking in ammonia usually does it. -- *Santa's helpers are subordinate clauses* Dave Plowman London SW To e-mail, change noise into sound. |
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We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember Lobster saying something like: Considerably more scientific (and probably useful) than graphology or astrology (both of which I have seen used by local government personnel responsible for recruitment). Astrology? For real? It worked for Hitler, didn't it? |
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On Mon, 2 Mar 2009 16:27:08 +0000, Steve Firth wrote:
It is possible to unblock Epson nozzles in a sonic bath. Not everyone has access to such a device and TBH very few people can tolerate the noise. A "sonic bath" is something other than an ultra sonic cleaner then? Small, low power, ones are available for less than £50 and they make no objectionable noise that I'm aware of. This sort would be fine for nozzle unblocking. -- Cheers Dave. |
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In article et, Dave
Liquorice writes On Mon, 2 Mar 2009 16:27:08 +0000, Steve Firth wrote: It is possible to unblock Epson nozzles in a sonic bath. Not everyone has access to such a device and TBH very few people can tolerate the noise. A "sonic bath" is something other than an ultra sonic cleaner then? Small, low power, ones are available for less than £50 and they make no objectionable noise that I'm aware of. This sort would be fine for nozzle unblocking. How would you get the nozzle part of the printer out of said printer and into a bath? I could never figure out how to get the part unattached so i could really clean it/see if it was really blocked. -- Janet Tweedy Dalmatian Telegraph http://www.lancedal.demon.co.uk |
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On Mon, 02 Mar 2009 15:31:28 +0000, Dave Liquorice wrote:
On Mon, 02 Mar 2009 08:48:04 -0600, Jules wrote: I use Openoffice for just about everything, and it drives me nuts that I have to go and locate a Windows machine with Word on it every time I'm sending something "off site" in electronic form, purely so I can verify that OO has correctly saved in Word format properly & that the doc will look more or less as it should for the recipient. How often does OOo not save as M$ expects? I'm not overly concerned about complex documents just yer run of the mill ordinary letter with maybe an image and/or table. I've not had much trouble with the layout side - but of course OO's idea of available fonts on a Linux box are generally different to Word's on a Windows box, so I normally have to do a little bit of font tinkering in Word so that things look nice. OO running on a Windows platform might sort out a lot of the font issues though, as hopefully it'll use exactly the same fonts that Word would. cheers Jules |
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On Tue, 3 Mar 2009 01:06:58 +0000, Janet Tweedy wrote:
How would you get the nozzle part of the printer out of said printer and into a bath? Dismantle the printer. -- Cheers Dave. |
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Janet Tweedy wrote: How would you get the nozzle part of the printer out of said printer and into a bath? I could never figure out how to get the part unattached so i could really clean it/see if it was really blocked. I found instructions on removing the one on my old Stylus via Google. It's not a job for the clumsy, though. But if it's not working you have nothing to lose. -- *Beware - animal lover - brakes for pussy* Dave Plowman London SW To e-mail, change noise into sound. |
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Tim Lamb wrote:
I have been looking for a cheap printer to replace the gummed up inkjet my wife used to use before we bought her a laptop. I now get irregular e-mails requesting that such and such letter/recipe/birth/marriage/death etc. attachment should be printed on the office m/c. I don't leave my PC switched on so networking won't work and she works at the other end of the house so picking up copy is inconvenient. I confidently expected dot matrix printers to be dirt cheap by now and half promised one as a birthday pressie. 150ukp they must be joking! For 70ukp I can get an entry level laser inc. usb cable. Is there something I should know? regards OK, so I'm late to this thread but I do have an OLD[1] dot matrix printer ready for recycling. [1] Star LC-10, OK I'll wizz it. -- Jeweller R100RT Formerly: James Captain, A10, C15, B25, Dnepr M16 solo, R80/7, R100RT (green!) www.davidhowardjeweller.co.uk |
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In article , Appin
writes I wouldn't employ anyone who used Word, myself, far less someone who didn't know enough to send a pdf. Word is a pain in the bum now it saves its files as docx types. My system hates them and half the software won't see them properly anyway. Just another ruse to make us all update Office or whatever we have on the computer. I don't use Word unless I really have to, usually to filter in work from customers before taking it into another program. Janet -- Janet Tweedy Dalmatian Telegraph http://www.lancedal.demon.co.uk |
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Jules wrote:
OO running on a Windows platform might sort out a lot of the font issues though, as hopefully it'll use exactly the same fonts that Word would. Or, since Word makes an abortion of layout and uses some of the ugliest fonts going by default, one might use the basic set of PostScript fonts across all platforms and thus have consistency between them all. This would mean using Times instead of the Times New Roman and Helvetica instead of Arial. This isn't a bad policy to adopt anyway. |
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Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In article , Janet Tweedy wrote: It isn't in Epson's' which is why their ink is cheaper than HP. However when you buy a new HP ink you get a new nozzle etc. which does help. i have thrown away several Epson's as there was no way to unblock them and no repair shop would look at them once they were a few years old, yet they were generally sturdier built and didn't blow your eyeballs off with their colours as sometimes happens in HPs. Last Epsom I had was a Stylus colour 600 - and you can remove the head for cleaning. Soaking in ammonia usually does it. Last Epsom I had fell at the third fence.. |
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Janet Tweedy wrote:
In article , writes On 3 Mar, Janet Tweedy wrote: Word is a pain in the bum now it saves its files as docx types. My system hates them and half the software won't see them properly anyway. Just another ruse to make us all update Office or whatever we have on the computer. I don't use Word unless I really have to, usually to filter in work from customers before taking it into another program. You can alter the default preference to save as word2003 (.doc) files. That's what I've done. You can also download an add-in thingy to enable Word 2003 load files in Word 2007 format, which is my own preference. For anyone who hasn't seen it, Word 2007 is the most utterly appalling abomination - when I've been forced into using it I can't see any advantage at all over the previous version; they've simply hidden all the commands away in totally illogical places. The PowerPoint 'upgrade' is even worse; simply totally unusable. Well my XP wants to save them as zip files for some unknown reason and doesn't give me a choice as to what I could save them as, though it grudgingly allows me to save them as is. Sounds like you've got something set up wrong there! I darn's save them as 2003 files in case I am not bringing in something the customer had laid out, (IYSWIM) I sometimes have to work with external 2007 files too, but no way in hell am I going to change to Word 2007. My solution hasn't caused me any grief at all so far! David |
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Lobster wrote:
For anyone who hasn't seen it, Word 2007 is the most utterly appalling abomination - when I've been forced into using it I can't see any advantage at all over the previous version; they've simply hidden all the commands away in totally illogical places. The PowerPoint 'upgrade' is even worse; simply totally unusable. I'm glad I'm not the only one. In another newsgroup individuals were insisting that Word 2007 is perfect and much easier to use than 2003. I think that they're all on mind bending drugs. Last week someone at work asked me how to add a button to an Excel spreadsheet that would change the view of the spreadsheet when a user clicked on it. A piece of cake in Excel 2003, simply call up the "forms" toolbar select button, drag to the spreadheet and attach a macro to display a custom view. We worked through it together then he went away to do it himself. He was back in five minutes - "how do you do that in Excel 2007?" Another bloody nightmare. Give it a try someday. It starts off with the problem that the forms toolbar is hidden, then you have to solve how to access macro function capability. |
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In message , Jeweller
writes Tim Lamb wrote: I have been looking for a cheap printer to replace the gummed up inkjet my wife used to use before we bought her a laptop. I now get irregular e-mails requesting that such and such letter/recipe/birth/marriage/death etc. attachment should be printed on the office m/c. I don't leave my PC switched on so networking won't work and she works at the other end of the house so picking up copy is inconvenient. I confidently expected dot matrix printers to be dirt cheap by now and half promised one as a birthday pressie. 150ukp they must be joking! For 70ukp I can get an entry level laser inc. usb cable. Is there something I should know? regards OK, so I'm late to this thread but I do have an OLD[1] dot matrix printer ready for recycling. [1] Star LC-10, OK I'll wizz it. Too late:-) Amazon has the job in hand. I shall soon be able to report on intermittent use laser problems! regards -- Tim Lamb |
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On Tue, 3 Mar 2009 20:38:46 UTC, Lobster
wrote: You can also download an add-in thingy to enable Word 2003 load files in Word 2007 format, which is my own preference. It works well. For anyone who hasn't seen it, Word 2007 is the most utterly appalling abomination - when I've been forced into using it I can't see any advantage at all over the previous version; they've simply hidden all the commands away in totally illogical places. The PowerPoint 'upgrade' is even worse; simply totally unusable. I actually found PP 2007 much better - but then I never really got into 2003. But I use it quite a bit, and teach Excel 2007 quite a bit too. I like it...I agree about the occasional illogicality, but it was never logical - the illogicality has just moved a bit! Well my XP wants to save them as zip files for some unknown reason and doesn't give me a choice as to what I could save them as, though it grudgingly allows me to save them as is. Sounds like you've got something set up wrong there! I'm not sure of the context here, but there's certainly an issue with misconfigured web servers. Put an Office 2007 file on there and it'll try to force you to download it as a ZIP file (because that's actually what it is, of course). A fix to the list of MIME types on the web server soon sorts that out. I darn's save them as 2003 files in case I am not bringing in something the customer had laid out, (IYSWIM) I sometimes have to work with external 2007 files too, but no way in hell am I going to change to Word 2007. My solution hasn't caused me any grief at all so far! It generally warns you if saving in 2003 format is going to lose you something. My wife sends a lot of stuff around (mainly from OO as we don't use Windows except for work). She uses RTF. -- The information contained in this post is copyright the poster, and specifically may not be published in, or used by http://www.diybanter.com |
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