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To: Tumbleweed who wrote (9468)	3/4/2000 7:42:00 PM
From: SBHX	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 60323

OT:inkjet ink I have yet to see a single inkjet printer that is economical with ink usage. The problem is 8x10 photographs on glossy photo paper setting sucks up lots of color ink. This is true of the epson, canon, lexmark. I think the printer companies basically give most printers away to make money on the ink. As for black prntouts. I use my laser printer for that, they take 1/10th the time at 1/100th the ink cost (the brother printers have cheap toner refills). Since the 750 has a usb connection, use that as you connect a cheap laser to the parallel, you'll be glad you did it. (epson 750) uses a LOT of ink. I have come to the conclusion that I did not purchase a cheap printer, but a device that allows me to buy expensive ink from Epson.

To: Tumbleweed who wrote (9468)	3/4/2000 8:46:00 PM
From: Ausdauer	Respond to of 60323

Joe and Thread, I bought my 8th "SanDisk compliant" device recently. My wife's cousin will be receiving the I-JAM mp3 player in the mail next week. I bought this at CompUSA during a field research trip a few weeks ago. I was actually interested to see how the Thomson/RCA Lyra was selling when the box for the I-JAM caught my eye. It has a SanDisk MMC card prominently displayed on two sides of the packaging. In fact, I think they use the MMC form factor as a selling point. In addition to this, there are two 16MB MMC cards which are not private labelled. They have the SanDisk brand on the label in red and white. The device is very small. You could easily conceal it in the palm of your hand. It is about the size of an egg with a hard rubber exterior and a solid feel in your hand. The keys are also rubbery in texture, which I didn't really care for. Also, the LCD display is a single line with maybe 8 or 10 characters, so the song title is not shown, just the track number. Another disadvantage is a single MMC slot, rather than a stacked design. To their credit the device comes with an MMC parallel port card reader and a CD ROM with the device driver and a fully functional version of MusicMatch Jukebox 4 for ripping CD's. All drawbacks aside, the sound is CD quality. In fact, the sound fidelity is awesome. I am sure she will be excited about it. I stole the two 16MB MMC's for the SanDisk shrine I keep in my wife's home office and sent her a single 32 MB MMC that I bought on the Internet for $72.00 at buy.com's website. This card held 8 mp3 songs at the highest sampling frequency. I hope the 64 MB MMC is shipping soon. This card will be so sweet as it will hold upto an hour of high quality mp3 songs. Ausdauer