Originally Posted by
rgburrill
Man after my own heart. I also use Photoshop and refuse to go with the pay as you go. I upgraded to CS2 years ago and have successfully transferred it to Windows 8 and 10, without Adobe support because they just don't anymore. I also have GIMP. It seems to have all the capabilities of Photoshop but I just feel more comfortable with Photoshop. But GIMP should work for you.
As far as printers I am an HP man. Inkjets and Laserjet. Can't beat their support. And we have two laptops, three phones and an iPad wirelessly connected to our Laserjet. HPSmart is a great monitor and statusing program.
I used to be an HP man but was burned twice by them. First time was in the early 1990s (pre- 'net as we know it now) when I'd purchased a Laserjet III and a Laserjet Fax unit. The Laserjet III was built like a tank
and weighed about as much as well as consumed power like there was no tomorrow. Every time I printed something my lights would blink and the line voltage dropped for a second. ( I even got an electrician involved to check out my wiring! ) I seem to recall that III was rated at over 700 watts when doing a print. The printer was incredibly reliable. I'd purchased it as a 'refurbished' unit and never once in the years I had it did it fail. I gave it to a friend who used it for years after when I decided to go to a color inkjet. The issue was the Laserjet fax unit: a year and a half after I got it the phone system went digital and guess what Mr Fax stopped working. HP gave zero support; they essentially washed their hands of it so I had an instant $750 paperweight.... I was disappointed. Second time was just before I got my current Samsung when I had a HP Color Laserjet, a wireless connected printer. The problem was reliability and the wireless card which kept going out every year almost to the day.I replaced it 3 times. I went on the HP user forum and there was truly 90+ pages of complaints about this card issue. HP refused any meaningful support beyond " Send us your printer and we'll let you buy a new one at 15% off retail." No thanks. That's when I switched to Samsung. Other that a failed sensor internal switch I was able to replace it has worked very well. I just want better image prints for things that I was to use right off the printer.
I've already begun to use GIMP and so far I like it. Once I'm more familiar with it I'll probably only use my old LView as a last resort for functions I can't figure out on GIMP.
I'll poke around on printers. I'd like a wireless one if possible so I can stick it somewhere there's space and I really only expect to use it for images. My concern is with older inkjets I had is you've got to use them fairly regularly or the spray nozzles get 'crudded' up - is that still the case? It was a rock and hard place. either you use the printer frequently and burn through your ink or save the ink and gum up the printer...
Jerry