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Re: Missing Covid Test Kit Orders Anyone? - 4 months ago

Same. Ordered on 18th, got the order email, no tracking yet. Spoke to USPS mail person in my lobby, said she did the same and hasn't seen the tracking yet, either. I might try the reorder with different email, but I think they will eventually come.

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Re: None tech topic: High jump on Electric and Gas bills - 4 months ago

For 2023 in NY, Con Ed wants to boost overall customer electric bills by 11.2% and gas bills by 18.2%. Not festive.

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Re: Post about your interests and leisure activities that I don't now squat about - 4 months ago

Did you go to MIT? They used to have a big contingent of jugglers I would watch when I was in the area. QuoteTodd's keyboard Great thread. Became a juggler while in graduate school. Specialized in devil sticks and diabolo. Wrote some papers about them that were eventually published as books. That helped secure some jobs as a juggling instructor at circus schools in Europe. The above

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Re: Post about your interests and leisure activities that I don't now squat about - 4 months ago

Musician (singer/vocal coach) Pilates over 36 yrs. Studied with master teacher for 17 yrs. Degree in choreography, was figure skater, etc., but don't want to go splat anymore. Work extensively with developmental/behavioral optometry and cranial osteopathy. None of this is hobby, as I consider everything I do part of my work. Any side interests always get absorbed.

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Re: Looking for opinions regarding the Affinity suite of apps - 5 months ago

Not a pro - happy with Affinity Photo and Publisher The learning curve is annoying if one is used to Adobe, but worth it and once learned, you're good. Have had to look up a few answers and always found them.

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Re: Hot Cocoa, got a go to brand or recipe? - 5 months ago

We've switched to this-

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Re: to fridge or not to fridge - 5 months ago

I fridge my natural PB after stirring mainly to keep it from separating.

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Re: HELP: meteorologist.app--restoring deleted prefs! - 5 months ago

I use it. Go to the site - Lots of help and the forum is very active. Ed answers all/most questions relatively quickly. Quotegoodmanx i've enjoyed having a weather app called “meteorologist” in my menu bar. installing an upgrade today, I stupidly chose to delete preferences. well, duh, there went all the cities i had entered into the app over the past several years! the prefs are

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Bonanza.com . . . yay or nay? - 5 months ago

Last question answered about them here was from 5 years ago. Anyone use them since then? Thanks!

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Re: Because you are my virtual family, I wanted to post my personal loss - 5 months ago

Very sorry to hear. . .

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Re: Printer update . . . - 5 months ago

QuoteRobert M The HP P2055dn is a basic B&W network laser printer. Nothing special about it. I have its little brother, the P2035N. Still going after all these years though it’s multifeeder snapped off and it loses its hardwire network connection occasionally. A restart fixes it. I haven’t gotten around to replacing it since its sole job is to print 8.5” x 11” sheets of labels. If I w

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Re: Printer update . . . - 5 months ago

Quotejonny Ecotank. No chip. Refill with bottles of ink. Do you have one? If so, how would you compare it to HP or Brother in print quality?

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Printer update . . . - 5 months ago

From previous thread . . . So I changed the separation pad, and rollers for tray one and two. Didn't solve the issue and made things a bit worse. I tested with a definite single page pdf. Now it prints the page, picks up another sheet closely behind that comes halfway out as if it printed, and a third sheet which gets caught between the tray and the start of going through the path.

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Re: Roll call thread - 5 months ago

You rang?

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Re: Hello printer mavens! . . . - 5 months ago

Thanks. I’ll check… QuoteTiangou Had this thought: Have you recently switched to a new brand of paper? Cheap stuff? Some of the generic stuff is under 20lb even if it says otherwise. Most lasers have trouble with less than 20lb paper. Add the dry winter air to the equation and it's jamming season.

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Re: Hello printer mavens! . . . - 5 months ago

Looking into parts now. I think I can do the rollers and separation pad easily. Anything that demands more of a disassembly, I probably can't accommodate. Spoke to a tech at a parts place that made it sound worth the cost/fix. I hope so. Otherwise, it's new printer time. Quoteanonymouse1 There's a separation pad that probably should be replaced. Also, there's an image transfer roll

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Re: Hello printer mavens! . . . - 5 months ago

Quoteanonymouse1 Did the reset do anything? Did reset. Printed a single page. Good. Printed a 3 page doc. First page ok, then did the "jam in cartridge area". One or two times before it would happen in the middle of a job, but mostly at the end after completion. I have cleaned the rollers that pick up the paper that I know of. Are there any other rollers inside prints and

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Re: Hello printer mavens! . . . - 5 months ago

Quoteanonymouse1 Did the reset do anything? Will be testing later today,

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Re: Hello printer mavens! . . . - 5 months ago

QuoteTiangou Do you have the manual-feed tray open a crack? It may be causing the printer to continue feeding beyond the last page because it doesn't detect the end of a page coming through the feeder. Sometimes, after years of use/abuse, the tray doesn't close completely and weird paper feed errors occur. Have you fanned your paper? It's winter, and static-cling causing extra pages to feed th

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Re: Hello printer mavens! . . . - 5 months ago

Quoteanonymouse1 Ok, try this: Go to the control panel on the printer Press OK. Press the down arrow to select Service, and then press OK. Press the down arrow to select Restore defaults, and then press OK. My hunch is that some little setting got accidentally tweaked. The links I gave in the earlier post work for Windows, but I can't find those options in MacOS. Thanks. I thought th

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Re: Hello printer mavens! . . . - 5 months ago

QuoteMrNoBody If this is happening on every print job the printer has a default {form feed after job} set in configuration memory. iirc, For HP PCL5 it's: <1B0C> and a Printer Reset <1B45> might clear it. dats all I got Thanks. Where would I use these codes? I can't find any place on the printer web page access. Or do I just do a "restore defaults" via the control

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Re: Hello printer mavens! . . . - 5 months ago

QuoteFritz I know you have, but it's the rollers, they may beyond cleaning to revive. I have exact same issue with my 13-year-old Canon MF. I can clean with distilled water and they're good for a week. Nothing lasts forever, except Bridget Bardots image from the 50's and 60s ...in my head. OK, trying to follow . . . The rollers are processing the job fine. Why would it be the rollers if the

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Re: Hello printer mavens! . . . - 5 months ago

Quoteanonymouse1 Some possibilities: 1. Remove printer. Download the drivers, and install: THEN reinstall. 2. If you have different connection options (USB and ethernet) try the other one. 3. Try a different user account. 4. Does it do the extra page with all apps, or only one app? 5. Are you printing double-sided? 3/4 Happens with two different computers, using different

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Re: Hello printer mavens! . . . - 5 months ago

QuoteMrNoBody Quotemspace ... Thanks. I'm currently running Mojave on a mid-2014 MBP. What would this do that the system doesn't? CUPS aka Common UNIX Printing System Thanks!

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Re: Hello printer mavens! . . . - 5 months ago

QuoteMrNoBody Are you using CUPS (OpenPrinting) driver? If not, I'd give it a try. More info here. and the link to HP's CUPS Support (it says 'Linux' but covers UNIX/macOS) Thanks. I'm currently running Mojave on a mid-2014 MBP. What would this do that the system doesn't?

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Re: Hello printer mavens! . . . - 5 months ago

QuoteBuzz Clean the rollers. == Did that. As I said, it picks up and prints well, but pulling in an extra sheet AFTER the job is done.

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Re: Hello printer mavens! . . . - 5 months ago

Quotemstudio I'm not up on new printer models so can't help there, however, whenever I'm having printer blips, the first thing I do is remove the printer via System Prefs, then re-install it. I suppose while in the printer dialog box, instead of print all, you can choose the pages of the entire doc and see if it still wants to print that extra page. Thanks. I'll try that.

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Hello printer mavens! . . . - 5 months ago

My HP P2055dn works, but is starting to do a weird thing that I can't trouble shoot. Since it is 11 years old, neither will HP. Even though a doc has NO extra pages, it prints the whole thing fine, but then always sucks up one more sheet which stops in the cartridge area and "jams". I have to pull out the cartridge to pull out the extra sheet. I can't figure out what it triggering th

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Starlink Internet dishes are attracting cats . . . - 5 months ago

Looks like SpaceX’s Starlink — Elon Musk’s bid to establish his space company as a heavyweight internet service provider using constellations of satellites — receiver dishes are attracting local cats on cold days. In a recent Starlink customer’s tweet, we counted at least five cats cuddled up on one of the dishes, apparently to stay warm and take advantage of the heat it produces.

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Re: Amazing juggling! - 5 months ago

Great! Here's my all-time fav.

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