Posts made by thanksajdotcom

@momurda said in All-in-one printer: Suggestions please:

@Ambarishrh I dont like HP printers anymore simply for the fact that toner is so damn expensive and you cant use 3rd party toners. The place i get my 3rd party toners is 1/3 to 1/4 the price of OEM. So even if 2/3 of them are defective i still come out even or ahead compared to OEM. However in my experience about 80-90% of them are not defective, meaning the company saves money compared to OEM.

My issue with reman'ed cartridges is that it's a bad concept. I understand why people do it, but here's things to consider:

• Remanufactured cartridges are taking a cartridge that was probably used up, and putting fresh toner in it and resetting the chip in the cartridge.
• You don't know what the cartridge went through on it's initial life that could have damaged it, and reman'ed are not always good about checking for flaws in the cartridge they get before they do their voodoo that they do.
• The chips they replace with are often after-market so the machine doesn't read them as well
• The reman'ed cartridges never give you the same yield as OEM. Usually 50-60% is about as good as a lot do. Some do a little better, but the quality also is not as good, which for B/W isn't a big deal, but for color it is.
• Reman'ed cartridges risk ruining the printer, which if it's a little SOHO printer is a nuisance at worst, but if it's a big machine, that can be expensive for repair or replacement. I've seen MANY machines that people brought it after ONE generic cartridge that had the cartridge explode and the printer was dead. In some cases, it was machines that were workhorses that never died, and then one bad cartridge ruined it.

I am a firm believer in OEM cartridges. You have to do the risk/reward calculations yourself, but for me, I just stick to original cartridges. Then, if there's an issue, I can go back to the manufacturer and yell at them. And I know they will work, every time.

Oh, and I owned a Samsung CLP325W, which was a pretty good printer for me while I had it. I got mine refurbed, so it had some weird little quirks, but I was overall happy with it. I also had a Samsung SCX4623F that was solid for a B/W AIO. So I'm a Samsung fan. I just will always prefer Brother until shown that I shouldn't.

@msff-amman-Itofficer said in All-in-one printer: Suggestions please:

@thanksajdotcom

There is some truth in this, but the initial price for there printers are alot cheaper with tons of features compared to the rest.

But for me if it was BW printing I will go for samsung m2070w after seeing it in action

The Samsung B/W units are solid. They are the happy middle ground between HP and Brother. They are priced, for initial purchase more like Brother, and their cartridges are often much more cost effective than HP/Canon/Lexmark, etc. However, Brother keeps their costs down by separating the drum unit from the toner, which even with replacing the drum separate, is still cheaper long-run. Samsung has their toners built like HP, with the drum included with each cartridge, so every time you change a toner, you change the drum. I still often recommended Brother more, but I used to recommend a comparable Samsung to many home users and businesses if the initial price point was right.

@scottalanmiller said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

Wegmans sells the mix for those! You just need shredded cheese and butter. And an egg. And having made them several times personally, WORTH IT!

This would be a good machine. Not a huge initial cost, and decent yield.
https://www.amazon.com/Brother-MFC9130CW-Wireless-Printer-Replenishment/dp/B00C6MNP52

If you want a comparative Samsung to look at, check out something more like this:
https://www.amazon.com/Samsung-SL-C1860FW-XAA-Wireless-Replenishment/dp/B00IQBT3RG

@Ambarishrh said in All-in-one printer: Suggestions please:

@msff-amman-Itofficer said in All-in-one printer: Suggestions please:

Since you said single side scanning, I will suggest the Samsung m2070fw it might be cheap, but man it does everything. and on the network using WiFi with very easy to use software.

Its black and white only, but there is another version for it with colors, But this one is very decent A4 printer, and dont trust folks that tells you it can work only for home, I have seen 20-30 people using this small thing and it working. But sadly there is no scan to email function. just network scan.

Thanks! Forgot to mention that i need color prints as well. Do you remember the model number of the Samsung color ?

Avoid Samsung. Their color cartridges on a lot of the smaller duty machines are less than 1000 pages (usually 7-800) and they are expensive because you only get a few pages out of them.

@Ambarishrh how much color are you looking to do? Laser is obviously going to be your friend in this case, so stay away from Epsons.

Need to pick up more Disaronno amaretto for this weekend. I like sipping on about two fingers of that on the rocks and it's a good evening.

@Grey said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@thanksajdotcom said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

I might need to get one of these in the near future:
https://www.amazon.com/ThinkGeek-Phantom-Keystroker-V2/dp/B002YJW7C4

FTFY

I might need to get one of these in the near future:
https://www.amazon.com/ThinkGeek-Phantom-Keystroker-V2/dp/B002YJW7C4

Friend called with a printer question. Told him, for his needs, this was his best option: https://smile.amazon.com/Brother-Wireless-Convenience-HL-3180CDW-Replenishment/dp/B016AT5WES/ so now he's going with that. @Minion-Queen can attest to how good of machines Brothers are.

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@IRJ said in Skype Video Call Recording:

@thanksajdotcom said in Skype Video Call Recording:

@IRJ said in Skype Video Call Recording:

What is the purpose of recording the calls? I am asking because maybe skype isn't the best tool for the job.

Skype is the means we have to work with. The purpose is simply to be able to look back on conversations with friends and re-watch them.

Are you really going to watch recorded skype conversations? That seems like an unusual scenario. Disk space can creep up pretty quickly...

Yes. And storage isn't an issue. I have plenty of storage laying around the house I can use.

Happy birthday @art_of_shred !!!

@DustinB3403 said in Skype Video Call Recording:

Assuming this isn't Skype for Business, you'd have to use any third party software that can capture video and audio from your computer.

The link there list a bunch of options, but I've never used any of them. A software we do use here for capturing audio/video is Camtasia. It works, but is likely more then you'd need for this.

With S4B the host can record the call, participants just have to sit there..

Not S4B, just plain Skype.

@IRJ said in Skype Video Call Recording:

What is the purpose of recording the calls? I am asking because maybe skype isn't the best tool for the job.

Skype is the means we have to work with. The purpose is simply to be able to look back on conversations with friends and re-watch them.

@coliver said:

@thanksajdotcom said in Mangoes and Marijuana:

Note to self: buy mangoes for coming weekend

Going to Maine?

For what? That's a hell of a drive for lobster!

Note to self: buy mangoes for coming weekend

@Dashrender said in Why Choose AetherStore Over a NAS?:

@DustinB3403 said in Why Choose AetherStore Over a NAS?:

@aaronstuder said in Why Choose AetherStore Over a NAS?:

@scottalanmiller Normally a 128GB SSD drive.

So you'd need 40 SSD's at 128GB free space for 5TB usable storage. Which means you either need more SSD's in your organization, or to get larger capacity SSD's.

Which approach would be better depends on if SSD prices take a dive, or your business grows and gets more equipment to add to the store.

This only gets you one copy of data, not two or four as listed in Scott's example. For Scott's example, he'd need 160 machines with that amount of storage.

@Dashrender said in Why Choose AetherStore Over a NAS?:

@DustinB3403 said in Why Choose AetherStore Over a NAS?:

@aaronstuder said in Why Choose AetherStore Over a NAS?:

@scottalanmiller Normally a 128GB SSD drive.

So you'd need 40 SSD's at 128GB free space for 5TB usable storage. Which means you either need more SSD's in your organization, or to get larger capacity SSD's.

Which approach would be better depends on if SSD prices take a dive, or your business grows and gets more equipment to add to the store.

This only gets you one copy of data, not two or four as listed in Scott's example. For Scott's example, he'd need 160 machines with that amount of storage.

I just have a hard time believing that EVERY machine in the company is on an SSD as it's ONLY drive. Even if you upgraded to SSDs, I'd assume your machines didn't ship that way, which means you should have spinning drives in them. Format them and just use them as data drives. Most ship with a minimum 500GB and it's still common to have 1TB drives in the machines. There's storage there too.

@thanksajdotcom said in Why Choose AetherStore Over a NAS?:

@DustinB3403 said in Why Choose AetherStore Over a NAS?:

@aaronstuder said in Why Choose AetherStore Over a NAS?:

@scottalanmiller Normally a 128GB SSD drive.

So you'd need 40 SSD's at 128GB free space for 5TB usable storage. Which means you either need more SSD's in your organization, or to get larger capacity SSD's.

Which approach would be better depends on if SSD prices take a dive, or your business grows and gets more equipment to add to the store.

Personally, I think the 240/256GB SSD is the sweet spot as of this posting. For bang to buck, it's the best value I see. Most Windows installs are 20-40GB, which leaves us close to 200GB for programs, apps, and data. Most users will use a small fraction of that, and the price difference between a 128GB and a 256GB is usually quite small, so in the future, I'd probably say 240/250/256GB SSDs are the way to go.

Perfect example of this:
256GB SAMSUNG 850 PRO
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?item=N82E16820147360
vs
128GB SAMSUNG PRO
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?item=N82E16820147359

In this case, the 256GB is actually CHEAPER!