A RAINY DAY

 I bought a colour laser printer on-line yesterday from Warehouse Stationery and picked it up today. It's a monster and really heavy compared to the other Brother mono printer we have.

The colour one is a Brother CCP-L3551CDW and, being a laser and not an ink-jet I expect the toner to last quite a while before needing replacement.

It cost $399 which is discounted (early Black Friday sale) which I'm happy with. I'm setting up the office for The Old Girl who will be working from home next year.

We bought a few different printers, scanners and copiers over the years but learned that most were unreliable. We bought a Brother mono laser printer about 20 years ago and only had to change the cartridge once. It is still going strong but when I bought the new Apple Mac it didn't recognise the printer (old technology). I have this connected to the old (1998) Apple Mac.

I bought a Brother mono laser printer to go with the new Mac and have had no problems with it so this is why I'm putting my trust in the Brother colour laser. I expect that the colour ink cartridges won't last as long as the black and white ones but hopefully can train The Old Girl to use colour only when necessary. The colour  cartridges are supposed to provide over a thousand A4 copies so we should be OK,

I unpacked the beast and spent some time trying to set it up wirelessly until I gave up and used a manual connection line. This worked in a couple of minutes for set-up and, once the line was removed the wireless works well between it and the computer. I, as usual was expecting a few hours of frustration but that wasn't to be. "It is what it is" I could have said or "improvise, adapt and overcome" but now can just say "balls to the walls".