#epson all in one printer

[munchboxart]

NOT

[britishchick09]

so long xp-6000...

hello xp-600! ;D

[whereisthedamndaddymanual]

It's just a spot of weak vinegar

Good tree fertilizer

[albatris]

snippet sunday

nothin wild from me today, just a little interaction I enjoy from the vampire support group

“Hi, Nat,” said the first goth. “I am Epson. Like the printer.”

“I’m Ampersand,” said the second goth. “Like the squiggly guy.”

“I’m Greg,” said Greg.

“If you would like to add glitter to your nametag, I know where I can get you some,” Epson said. “Atsuo does not leave it out because it goes everywhere but his daughter has a craft cupboard and I know where it is.”

“Th-thanks!” Nat said. “I’m fine, though.”

“No. You need glitter,” Epson said, and she vanished.

With nothing else to do but start, Nat seized an orange marker. He spelled his name out in bubble letters, all caps, and drew a kitty cat face after it.

“Do you like Quantumfish?” Ampersand asked. “I have Parker stickers.”

Nat noticed a few chibi Parker faces on Ampersand’s own nametag, and he nodded. Ampersand leaned over and ceremoniously placed a tiny Parker brandishing a laser cannon on the other side of Nat’s name.

“So where are you from, Nat?” Greg asked.

“Bright Park,” Nat said. “How about you?”

“We’re all from Port Peri,” Greg replied. “We make the drive down every fortnight. There’s no stuff like this out where we are.”

“Folks come from all over,” Ampersand said. “One guy’s from all the way on the Bronze Coast—he comes over once a month just for us.”

“Not just for us,” Greg said. “For the group.”

“No, for us, specifically,” said Ampersand.

[atalienart]

Does Al also make you paranoid?

Look at this picture. Is it art or is it an Al generated image? Look at this text. Is this useful piece of information or Al gibberish? Look at this video? Is this real or fake?

I stare at drawings, analysing every line, I go through people's social media to see if they're artists or thieves. I look for references and take a close look at every image because I don't want to reference distorted reality. I show someone a video of snow falling somewhere and instead of "look how beautiful" I go "do you think this exists?" and I read something and then give up recognising dry like a summer desert language of a robot. I hate it here.

Today's no different. I see a picture that looks kinda nice but I immediately notice there's something wrong with it. I go to the source and there's more. Every day the person adds a new fully finished piece. Under every piece people (because they can sense something's off) ask the owner of the account what medium he uses. The answer is: "I've been using the computer to create my art since 1980, and then I print it with a vintage ink on my epson printer". The fuck? Sounds like the printer does more work that he does on the computer. They guy's old, I give him the benefit of the doubt, his bio says he's a curator of art in some institute. One of the commenters says he posts regularly and his "style" didn't change much. I go through his feed. In fact his "style" changes a lot. But oh, most of the images he posts belong to other people who have their own exhibitions and no online presence, and it's all Al shit, clear as day. I scroll down and it turns out the guy used to be into abstract art, there's tons of it before Al started to ruin everything. In another life I'd scroll past that pretentious fuck without losing 12 minutes of my life. I hate it here. I see another artist and they seem legit but even when I see their art with all the human imperfections I can't shake the feeling they reference Al images. I see their process video but I cannot tell if they're just new to digital art and they use traditional methods or it's a bit shady. Am I paranoid or their video is just recorded that way, because I've already seen the erasing liars and pretending idiots.

It's exhausting. Constant vigilance! I don't want to waste my time on something people didn't bother to spend their time creating. They don't care about their thing, why should I?

[tempural]

SCUMSUCK's wishlist.

first posted on fedi for the snowflake challenge #7, then edited to my site...

Non-tangible items:

I am a hungry hungry buttslut for art, fic, and other creations with my characters. 🙏🥺 Here's a gallery with some stuff I've gotten.

I am a hungry hungry anal masochist for comments 😼 I think the sorta comment I'd like right now is a quote I can put in the work description, like "This shit made me watch wrestling and now I'm gay" - t. John Cena.

I am very demure and modest when it comes to anon messages 💅 One of the things I miss most about the cesspool of tumblr, is getting enough questions about my silly scoutspy characterizations to create, well, my own characters out of them! Anons that stroke my shaft are a great way to get me to churn my brain and make something creative like the 300 scsp doodles or 500 headcanon posts of 2018, as opposed to sending me something blunt like "draw linguini's feet".

Forbidden fourth wish: I wish that one day someone could find scans of that YinYang monster x Vincent Valentine FF7 doujinshi that was my favorite as a wee lad! It was called "Meteo Daiou" by New Technical Punk-FF (Isuzu Suzuki). The last evidence of its existence is on this archived Sodasexy page. My life is a repeating circle. Even the scanner says this is GROSS and put it in their squick section. But Maggie age 8 liked it a little too much! Goth dude getting somno-bung by a hungry monster informed the rest of my yaoi career.

Physical items:

I like usable items that leave little waste.

Bar soap in natural, mild flavors. I got that dang eczema and anything that's too fragrant will turn me into the stay puft marshamallow man.

Books! I tend towards nonfiction, biographies, and art + photography books. Right now I'm looking at Devin Townsend's biographies...

Small pieces of usable art from indie artists, like paper stickers and washi tape! I like to put them on my sketchbooks to tell them apart.

A Brock Lesnar #69 football jersey.

Looseleaf tea! I like to try all sorts of new flavors. I can't do floral mixes, but I do like black, green, red, and white tea.

A good metal fountain pen! I've found a couple of brush pens I like. I guess it's time for me to get into stiffer tips.

Some drawing/writing ink! I like to try all sorts of new colors, especially for lineart and ink washes.

A shed or trailer to store our art.

A screen printing room and set-up that is safe from the weather and cats stepping everywhere.

A pigment printer so I can make even more vibrant stickers and art reproductions! I guess I've heard good things about Epson Ecotanks and the Canon Pixma Pro-200/300/400 lines.

An upgraded computer that can load 40 chunks in minecraft's view distance, and use big digital brushes without lagging.

I guess some big ol' terabytes of hard drives to archive my work.

More materials for our fence (wood pallets, metal fences...)

[mistressdragonflame]

Practice makes Perfect

So, rather than dive head first into the (current) 700k print of Lionheart, I decided to try a smaller work first. So I decided to use The Perfect Match, by Nora_Wall, another Dramione fic. At 130k words completed, its a much more bite size starting point than even the first volume of Lionheart.

So I began as I did with Lionheart, making a typeset for the print. I used google Docs, as its a habit of mine to use a digital format to best share between my (then) work PC and my home Macbook. I then exported as a PDF for conversion into a signature set using the app BookletCreator.

I actually bought myself a printer for this ADHD obsession, as I didn't have an appropriate one before. I had those "my first printer" types, one I bought while in Japan 12+ years ago and lord only knows if it worked/had ink, but it was single sided print only. I then also had a newer, but still baby Epson printer I bought IDK, 6 years ago (I think I bought it while in Greece, but I don't recall)? It had a scan feature, but it couldn't print duplex, and I didn't hate myself enough to single side/flip/rotate/single side an entire book. I also had no idea about the ink.

Instead I bought a Brother printer that did duplex, and is Laser, so the ink won't 'mysteriously' go bad at some time in the future. Did find out the starter ink it came with was only really good enough for 500 pages, which is less than I'd need for Lionheart let alone any practice/extra printing, but printer companies do what they do. (DCP-L2640DW for those curious)

During my print runs, I learned a few things.

Weirdly, printing from Adobe Reader results in a fainter/more blurry printing than printing from the Brother App. IDK why, it's the same PDF used.

I have no ability to add blank pages using my Adobe Reader, so I have a choice of one, weirdly spaced pages of the book, two, mis-numbered pages (as they count the blank pages), or three, make a separate signature just for the non-writing pages (e.g. title page, table of contents page, etc).

For the life of me, I cannot make the top and bottom margins of the print smaller than one inch. Doesn't matter if the master document has .5 inch t/b margins, it'll print as 1 inch. I may have to inquire with other bookbinders on how to change this, as it's a lot of wasted space.

So next, while I waited for my signatures to be crushed flat, I made a stabbing cradle to stab the signatures, as I didn't trust myself to stab that many times in the same exact spot with out one. I used some excess chipboard to make and it came out decently.

I also made a stabbing template, to share between samples, and that worked well also. I did have an issue of the samples shifting as a fiddled with the template/awl, but for the most part they came out well.

I then stitched them together using a french stitch. I used waxed thread, and a curved needle--found I don't like the curve very much, and should have just used a regular one. Ah well.

Still, I felt the sitchwork came out quite well for a first time. The booklet wasn't too loose, nor too tight, and was within government standards of being in alignment. For Lionheart though, I'll likely be trying my hand at corded stitching vice french.

I did try to round the spine, but I don't think I did it in the right order. I watched a guide glue then whack with a hammer, and that didn't shift anything in mine. I don't know if I didn't hit it hard enough, or if I wasn't supposed to glue the french stitches first. IDK.

I tried to trim the edges and... well, it didn't turn out well. I had the boxcutter with a fresh tip, but I did not have the skills to appropriately trim. So the top's all jacked, and I left the bottom/side alone. Its, er, rustic.

Next I made the book cover. I made a first attempt using a 8 1/2x11 piece of particle board cut in half, but that ended up being too short. Despite the papers also coming from the same size originally, and despite the gap in the cover for the hinge work, it matched the booklet. So I had to make it again. And then again, because the 2nd time was too long, so I trimmed it, only to mistakeningly made it back to the 1st attempt size.

I used some spare cloth I had lying around, backed with some heat and bond I also had lying around (other ADHD obsessions include renaissance fair with accompanying clothing making). I'd need more heat and bond if i wanted to try again.

I didn't have any special end paper for this practice run, so I just used more of the paper I previously chopped.

I added some muslin to the spin for rigidity, as I didn't want to buy mull when I already had a substance that'd work. Actually using it however, it's rather thick, so perhaps a different muslin would work better. I'll have to dig through my clothing piles.

But I glued it all together, and it came out decent! The pages warped some, but I think that partially has to do with living in Hawaii with Hawaii humidity. It gets everywhere. I pressed the books with some cat toy wand sticks in the seems, so they came out nicely.

I do wish the book was a tad bigger. However, my printer only does up to 8 1/2 by 14, so I'd have to chose between long grain print for an addition inch, or short grain print as is.

[wolfliving]

Meanwhile, in Brickland

Cory Doctorow:

Analog companies can raise their prices, or worsen next year's model of their products. *Digital* businesses can *travel back in time* and raise the price of something you already own, but need to pay a "subscription" fee for. They can reach back in time and remove features you've already paid for. They can even go back in time and take away things you already own. The omniflexible, omnipresent digital tether between a device and its manufacturer creates *so many* urges that they can't resist:

Are you one of 4,000,000 people who built "smart home" products from Wink into your walls, ceiling and foundation slab at any time since they started shipping in 2014? Surprise! Now you have to pay a "subscription" for all of those gadgets or they'll *brick your fucking house*:

Did you buy a "Mellow Sous Vide" gadget? Surprise, it now costs $48/year to use that gadget!

Did you buy an Exogen ultrasound device to stimulate bone growth after a fracture? Surprise, it bricks itself after you've used it 343 times! Enjoy your e-waste, Hopalong!

Did you *buy a Ferrari performance sports-car*? Surprise, it bricks itself if it detects "tampering" - and the only way to un-brick it is to connect it to the internet, so you'd better hope it doesn't brick itself deep in an underground parking garage. Oops!

Did you buy a Peloton treadmill? Surprise, your $3,000 "smart" treadmill no longer works in standalone mode - unless you pay $480/year, that treadmill is now a clothes-drying rack:

Did you buy an Epson printer? Surprise! It will brick itself after you print a certain number of pages, *for your own good*, because otherwise its ink-sponges might leak:

Did you get - no, wait for it - *did you get a neural implant?* Surprise. The company's new owners don't want to continue supporting your implant, and they won't let anyone else do so either. So now, *part of your brain* has been bricked:

This is like a lifetime money-back guarantee - *for companies*. Any company that experience's seller's remorse can cancel or alter the transaction, retroactively. It's as if Darth Vader opened an MBA program whose only lesson was *I am altering the deal. Pray I don't alter it further":

Darth Vader has the Force. Corporate enshittifiers have something even more powerful: IP law. Companies can cleverly arrange overlapping layers of IP - anticircumvention, trademark, patent, trade secrecy, terms of service, cybersecurity law, contracts - to criminalize otherwise legal activity, like reverse-engineering, jailbreaking, creating alternative clients or third-party parts:

That means that companies know that they can enshittify to their heart's content without fearing a competitor's disenshittification products. Raise the price of ink all you want, because you've figured out how to criminalize generic ink cartridges:

That's a lesson Spotify took to heart. Aaaallll the way back in 2022, Spotify started selling $90 "Car Thing" tablets - little car-vent-mounted gadgets that made it slightly easier to connect your car stereo to your Spotify account. Now that a suitable interval has gone by, Spotify has decided to remotely brick every one of these solid-state devices, no later than December of 2024:

Now, this may seem like a loss to all those Car Thing owners, who are out $90. But consider this: our descendants are *gaining* thousands of pieces of immortal, infinitely toxic e-waste.

So there's that.

Then there's this: Jason Koebler just published a breakdown of a leaked sSamsung repair contract on 404 Media, revealing how Samsung requires its "independent" repair partners to trick you, abuse you, spy on you, and literally destroy your phone:

First: every time you bring a phone to an independent Samsung repair shop, the company has 24 hours to notify Samsung, providing your name, email, phone number, address, the IMEI of your phone, your warranty status and complaint.

Then, the technician is required to inspect your device for any evidence that you have had it serviced by unauthorized technicians or fixed with third-party replacement parts. If they believe you have failed to act in accord with Samsung's shareholders' interests, the technician is required to *immediately destroy your phone* and notify Samsung.

(This is radioactively illegal, and has been since 1975, when Congress passed the Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act, which protects your right to use third-party parts:)

Why does Samsung do this? They can't help themselves. It's in their nature.

[alex-fictus]

Not a suggestion, more a question - how do you make your stickers? Your art inspired me to make stickers but I don’t know where to start!!

Ooh Tutorial Time! I have a small rundown of my process here. (I’ve got a video here, but I’ve had an update in my materials. Also this got a little away from me, I hope this helps and lemme know if there’s anything I need to elaborate on!)

---  Materials:  Printer - Epson Ecotank 8500 Cutters - Silhouette Cameo 4s (I’ve got 2 at the moment) Paper - Zicoto Glossy Vinyl Laminates - Glossy and Holo Star Laminate (Both Self Adhesive) Misc    Off Brand Sticker Cutter mats     Ruler Squeegee with extra microfiber wrap    Sports glove tack spray or sewing basting spray

Printer - Aim for a photographic printer at the minimum. General print quality, color variety, and paper handling will make sure your prints are the highest possible quality. They’re a little more expensive, but my last printer lasted 4 years with frequent weekly printing. The ecotank is nice, it’s more visual that the ink is actually disappearing than the pre-filled cartridges lol.  Cutter - I’ve only used Silhouette, but I’ve heard to stay clear of Cricut due to general cut unreliability and lack of customer service assistance. I’ve also heard great things about the Siser Juliet cutter from mutuals. In order to use 2 machines at the same time, I had to purchase the Business license ( p sure it was a one time $50 purchase, but I can work twice as fast). If you want to cut by hand, check out what kind of ergonomic scissors you can find. Classic scissors over time can really screw up your hands, especially when you’re making fine cuts. 

Printing and Sizing - The Silhouette Studio resizes your stickers without many issues with quality changes. This does kinda depend on the base size of your files. I always make my stickers on a canvas 3000x2000 pixels and 300 dpi. I wouldn’t go any lower than 100 dpi for print, and no larger than 500 dpi, but you can always test this out.

Paper - I enjoy the luster of the paper I linked above, there’s almost a pearlescent quality to it. If you’d like a different quality, I recommend still sticking with glossy vinyl for your paper. Laminates on matte sticker paper have had a lot of trapped air underneath for me and it tended to be more likely to bleed in contact with water despite being laminated.

Laminate - If you’re just doing paper finish stickers, you can skip this step :)

Laminate them to make them more water and scratch resistant. The laminates I’ve listed are all self adhesive. There are also heat adhesive laminates, which require a heat laminator. I haven’t experimented much with heated laminates. Mine are best rated for hand wash, though they can go through the dishwasher a few times.  When laminating your sticker sheet, be sure to not cover your registration marks. When your cutter tries to read over them and the surface is really reflective, it can cause the machine to read improperly (and it’s worse with the holographics lol). Either precut your laminates like I do in the video I linked above, or you can use matte tape over your laminate to dull the sheen. If you accidentally cover your registration marks, the matte tape is a lifesaver.  Self laminating takes some muscle memory to not get bubbles trapped under the laminate, but a wide squeegee and firm pressure helps make sure you get as few bubbles as possible.  Mats - Your cutter will come with a few, but I find that my off-brand ones are just as good and less expensive. I prefer low-tack, but there comes a time when the tack is absolutely gone, and I have 10+ mats just sitting around. That’s where the Sports Glove spray or Sewing basting spray comes in! After washing them (soap and water, then dry for a few hours), I hit them with a few coats of spray. Right now I’m using Pow’r Tac Grip Spray. It’s just ok, but this leaves less residue on the back of my stickers than the Basting Spray I used to use. I retack every month or so, but that’s more bc I’d prefer the mats to be less sticky than risk ripping my backing sheets. 

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If there’s anything you’d still like to know, please let me know!! 

[timesothercompany]

I made a thing!

Paint Program is a compilation of 26 Microsoft Paint files I made in the early 2000s, and recently rediscovered on an old laptop. I consider them to be digital artefacts of the Y2K era, not artworks. 

Zine 29 pages 5 x 7" Inkjet printed Edition of 8 2024

Concept, text, & design by Jo Minhinnett

Below I've written in diaristic detail about the logistics of designing and producing something by primarily trial and error...

Background:

I had this zine idea a few years ago when I was cleaning out my mom's condo and going through our old family laptops, from back in the day when a household only had one computer. The MS Paint files I found there were likely migrated from an even older desktop computer because I wouldn't have owned a laptop in 2003 when the earliest files were dated. The files were BMPs and PNGs and I made sure to retain all the original file names in the zine.

How I made it:

This was a headache to layout as the graphic files were geriatric and I wanted a true-to-screen Microsoft color palette printed on paper, which doesn't work when you convert the files to PDF or drop them into Photoshop (at least without a ton of work; photoshop doesn't recognize the colors in these image files and appears to auto approximate the color). I was out of my wheelhouse and I'm still curious to know how a designer would go about handling these files to get an authentic color match in Photoshop. I spent SO long trying to figure this all out and did a ton of print tests because I NEEDED that MS Paint palette to look turn of the 21st century and not have the colors changed to whatever present day Adobe software wanted them to be.

In the end, Microsoft speaks to Microsoft, so I laid it all out in Powerpoint and called it a day. This was kind of a 'give up' moment for me, but in hindsight, after all the tests, it proved to be the most logical and un-fussy way to do it. I also had to print the zine from Powerpoint if I wanted to get "true" MS Paint colors, which really slowed everything down and made it impossible to print many copies (crying inside a little). I printed on my Epson home printer and a stack of 50lb. premium matte Red River Paper (cardstock weight) which is almost too much and too heavy , but I loved how there was no bleed-through and how it made the book feel extra tactile. If you have memories of printing out your MS Paint creations on office paper circa 2003, you know how terrible and soggy that was and my heart goes out to you. I think I over-compensated with the 50lb. weight because of this traumatic memory. All to say, the inkjet print quality is simply astounding, pure matte heaven! I hand-punched the binding holes and hand-assembled each one with the plastic coil. I am over the moon with how it turned out. My only hope is to have a bigger edition one day, once I solve the color issue, and be able to send this baby off to a local commercial printer. So long as the color isn't compromised. Making this zine was wonderful and nostalgic. The end result fetishizes MS Paint a lot because the print quality would never have been this good back then and on certain pages, it kind of fools me for a second. Like, wait a second, does that actually look good? For the most part, it doesn't though: the graphics were never created with artistic intention and I made sure to include files that were especially brainless (although I kept out any that were remotely vulgar). It's all part of the low-fi aesthetic that I love, which was dictated by the only widely available technology for the average consumer in the early 2000s. I wasn't particularly creative or intentional with the technology and I think that's really point of this zine, as an everyday record and artefact of a teen in the Y2K age.

[java-dragon]

Bookbinding/Fan binding for beginners by... a beginner PART ONE

SO YOU WANNA BE A FANBINDER EH!?

RIGHT! so it felt like maybe it might be sorta kinda helpful to put something about a 'how to do the thing' together. Buckle in this is going to be a ride and a half. Edit as of November 16th 2023 The Master List for EVERYTHING is

HERE

SO, first thing is first- if you're fan binding there is a bit of etiquette to follow. But it is just good manners to ask permission to fan bind the fic you're interested in. See if the author has a FAQ available where they state the Yay or the Nay. Submit a DM or a comment. But as a note of disclaimer- this is for PERSONAL USE ONLY. THIS IS NOT MEANT TO BE SOLD ANYWHERE. LOOKING AT YOU ETSY FAN FIC SELLERS THAT CAN GET EVERYONE INTO A FUCK TON OF TROUBLE. That is a breech of fair use laws. Don't breech fair use laws. Don't be a dick.

If you happen to have a EPUB or PDF copy of a fic that has been deleted and you wish to bind it or if you receive no response to the author in question, nod your head, know that you did your best and proceed on with the project and make your fic to put on your shelf. Sleep well knowing you did your best and you can do nothing else.

But if you receive a Nay- don't be a dick honour the author's choice and plop the fic on your ereader and call it good.

Now that we got that all out of the way. ONWARD!

MATERIALS! Musts: (The optional materials will be marked as "OP") Access to a Word processor Printer with duplex printing (It prints on both sides of the page) Fic Printer Paper- regular printer paper is FINE if you're being budget conscious. But if you'd like to splurge:

Hammermill Copy Paper But the Most bang for your buck is Church's Paper

Please note: These are US based links, and I am going from what and where I am located you might have to go to a local paper shop. If you want your book to feel very book-like see if your paper shop can take 11 x 17 paper and cut it in half for you which yields 8.5 x 11 paper on the short grain (paper has a grain there is a stiff side and a floppy side, much like fabric, by cutting the paper in half it makes it more 'floppy' and thus more book like)

a punch cradle I use one made by HoneyMinCo - or some sort of punch guide

Awl

Glue- Elmer's Glue All, Tacky, Lineco , PH Neutral all will do what you need it to do

Waxed linen thread

Curved Needles

Book press- you can make these for cheap with wooden cutting boards, bolts and wing nuts.

A brush you don't mind getting glue all over or you can use a silicone face mask brush like this hell I even use my fingers at times

box cutter or any sort of cutting tool, rotary tool

scissors

metal rulers help

spacers (Not necessary but helpful to have you can also DIY this for cheap) OP

Davy Board/Chip Board/Book Board AKA dense AF cardboard

and some sort of thick paper- like a cardstock

bone folder - butter knives also work in a pinch

Recommendations:

For Printers- Epson ECO Tanks are the best bang for your your buck ink wise and has duplex printing. Inkjet and colour options. Some binders swear by laser printers for speed and the general look for the final product but use what you have. Just make sure you have extra ink on hand.

The upfront costs can be pretty steep but a lot of the materials can be steep but you can get crafty and raid a dollar store and charity shops.

Up Next- How to get a Fic from AO3 to your word processor and how to format a document to get it ready for printing and likely more links, and some people to watch on TikTok or Youtube.

Edit: 11/1/2023:

There is a Fan Binding Starter Kit Found here

[honeybeeofficial]

did you know? Epson Workforce WF-2540 All-In-One Printer can perform top surgery!

[quodekash]

ABAAB OS2 EPISODE 2 TIME 

i love him with all my soul, your honour 

vehicular theft. nice one, cher. real classy. 

HES SO SILLY I LOVE HIM 

STRANGER DANGER 

sir why do you have an american flag on your arm 

why america 

THEYRE BOTH SO DRAMATIC 

I LOVE THEM 

imagine the shenanigans they get into. just on a normal day. 

i want to know what work was like before cher was an intern 

cos their friendship is so damn precious 

i love them both so much 

so so so much 

and they both have IMMACULATE hair 

✨pizzaz✨

i love him 

are- are you sure? 

now im just thinking about that pomegranate i ate for the first time while watching this exact series a few weeks back 

it took forever to eat 

and was a mess 

and the mess looked like blood 

but MAN it was good 

HIS FREAKING FACE- I CANT 

this snapshot is just. perfection. i love them so much 

this feels like my brain 

hes trying so hard not to laugh 

i love him 

and his perfect hair 

have i mentioned his hair enough today? 

i dont think so 

I LOVE JACKS HAIR SO MUCH GUYS 

IDK IF YOU KNEW 

BUT HIS HAIR IS PERFECTION 

SO POOFY AND CURLY AND SHRFBGHDRBFHG 

“i used the food delivery app” dANG IT THAT’S GENIUS 

an epson printer? not a canon printer? and he’s getting angry at it rather than listing all its good qualities? 

guys i think they have something against epson printers 

maybe theres some long-time rivalry between epson and canon 

dang it now im thinking of bad buddy and therefore of a romance story between two printer brands 

what is wrong with me 

why does the lighting keep doing that thing 

AA 

MAN 

AMERICAN MAN 

DIE 

IM SWATTING MY SCREEN LIKE THERES A FREAKING BUG 

WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE 

WHY IS THERE A WHITE AMERICAN MAN 

anyway, cher, i think youve bitten off more than you can chew 

this entire thing is so fun and i fully support the idea, but when it comes to the actual businessy stuff, you kind of need gun to do it. hes the boss and hes the one that knows what the guy actually said, and hes also the one who actually owns the company. so. yeah. 

oh 

never mind hes actually doing pretty well 

that was unexpected 

yayyyy cher did good 

YAYYY GUN IS REALISING HES MEAN 

YAYYY THATS AN AWESOME GAME IDEA 

i love this so much 

go to sleep 

(look at his hair) 

why that shirt. what is it with all the america stuff today. 

omg theyre eating spicy chicken thats hilarious 

“5 orders each” oh gosh theyre gonna make all the orders dirty arent they 

THE SUZUKI CAR SPONORSHIP AGAIN 

OMG HE HAS TO SHOUT HIS LOVE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE ROAD 

I LOVE THIS 

“youre not just a lover, cher. you’re my life partner.” BROOO IM GONNA CRY 

“cher, im ordering you to lie down” did i not say it. 

oh 

oh okay then that wasnt dirty??? 

cher’s last one will be, surely 

“im ordering you to love only me forever” well that was both expected and unexpected 

they smooch :33 

AAAAAAAAA BAD BUDDY IN THREE DAYS 

HELLLPPPPPP 

IM GONNA CRY 

PATPRAN ARE COMING BACK TO US GUYS 

THEYRE COMING BACK 

ONLY FOR TWO DAYS, BUT THEYRE COMING BACK 

GEIJKFDNGBJKRFB 

anyway THAT WAS SO GOOD, ABAAB IS SO GOOD, PEOPLE 

THERE WASNT EVEN ANY ANGST 

THE ONLY TIMES I CRIED WAS OUT OF LOVE+HAPPINESS 

ERDKGBTIUFKJBHTRK I LOVE THIS 

im so excited for wednesday night 

[cat-arsenal]

Selling this scanner I don't get along with and a ton of books and Pokemon cards (still)

[spockandawe]

re: printer anon and your discussion on types of printer--there is currently an Epson eco tank on sale for 200 (80 off) at cost co if you or a friend has a membership to jump in on! I haven't been able to confirm 100% if it can do full-page/full bleed prints but it *seems* like it can, so if anyone into fanbinding is looking for a new beast of burden I would recommend taking a look, the sale is online and in warehouse until the 23rd :)))) I'm almost certainly going to grab one the next paycheck with breathing room

Ooh, for any followers interested in buying a new printer, this sounds like a hell of a deal! And if it can do full-bleed printing, that is a SCORE for a home printer! I'm all out of space in my apartment, but hell yeah, this sounds awesome for anyone who has money and space :D

[smokymtnnotary]

Equipment and Supplies for Notary Signing Agents

As a Notary Signing Agent, there are several essential items you will need to perform your duties effectively. Here are some of the basic equipment and supplies that you might need:

Notary Journal: A notary journal is a record of all notarial acts performed by the notary. It is an essential tool for keeping track of your notarial acts and helps in preventing fraudulent activities.  I use and recommend the hard cover Modern Journal for Notarial Events.  I like that journal because it fits in my notary bag and I can also use it to write on top of, when doing notary work where there's no table.  It beats carrying around clipboards!

Notary Stamp: I like and use the slim round notary stamp.  It fits well in my bag or purse and I like it much better than the one that slams down!  I always get my commission expiration date on the outside of my stamp.  I know you'll hear people say that you aren't allowed to have your expiration date on your notary stamp - in Tennessee that is not true!

Pens: It is essential to have a good quality pen that writes smoothly and doesn't smudge. You may need to sign or fill out several documents during a signing appointment, so it is best to have multiple pens available.  I use blue Bic pens - you can order them through Amazon.  I also use pens for promotional matrials and those I usually buy from Amsterdam Pens.

Printer and Paper: A printer is necessary for printing out documents that require notarization. You will also need a good quality paper that is suitable for printing legal documents. I use Brother HL-L6200DWT printers.  The only problem is I also use a Mac and Brother printers don't want to print legal size documents correctly from a Mac.  I found the solution to that is to go into Adobe and turn the pages upside down and they print properly for me.  BUT that can be a hassle when your busy and forget to do that - so I just bought a windows based laptop that I print closing docs from.  The paper I usually use (letter size) is Hammermill Paper.  You'll also need Legal Size Paper.  

Laptop or Tablet:  I like the Lenovo with the number keys at the side.  I do most of my online closings on my laptop also.  If you are doing IPEN (in-person electronic notarizations) you'll want to have a tablet. I use and recommend the iPad Pro 12.9" and also the iPencil.  You might want to get a couple iPencils if you are doing a lot of IPEN so that each signer has a pencil to sign with.  If you use a platform, such as EscrowTab they have a couple tablets that work with their platform - one is the iPad Pro.  

Mobile Hotspot: A mobile hotspot is necessary for conducting remote notarizations where an internet connection is required.  You can also use the hotspot, if available, on your smartphone.

Scanner:  I mainly use Epson scanners.  I have one I keep in my office and a couple portable scanners I carry with me.  The portable scanners I use are Epson ES-300W. The ES-300 is direct connect, so if I'm out in the middle of nowhere I can connect to my scanner from my phone.  It actually connects better when I'm in the middle of nowhere than when I'm doing closings in an office building!  When I'm doing closings in an office or where there's a lot of other wifi going on my phone is always trying to connect to all the other wifi's except for my scanner.  I use the Aproca carry case for my portable scanner, I just wish it came with a sholder strap!  The Epson I use in my office is the workforce ES-580W.  No matter what scanner you get you want to get a professional scanner that's going to send scans that are readable and printable!  Don't be the signing agent that uses thier phone to do scan backs with!

Fingerprinting Supplies: If I'm ever doing genera notary work for the elderly, handicapped, or hospice patient and they aren't able to sign their name as well as they use to I always get their thumbprint in my journal!  I also get quite a few calls for mobile fingerprinting jobs - mainly for traveling doctors and nurses.  If you want to add mobile fingerprinting to your work, you'll also want to get FD-258 fingerprinting cards and carry them in your bag.  

Travel Bag: A sturdy travel bag is essential for carrying all the necessary equipment and supplies. It should be large enough to hold everything you need, but small enough to be easily transported. I use Coach leather bags.  I know they are more expensive than other bags but I feel I get my monies worth out of them because they last me a long time and leather is pretty easy to clean.  

Shipping supplies: Keep Fedex & UPS envelopes in both legal and letter size.  Keep these on hand so that when you get busy your packages are ready to be dropped off.  You can open an account at both Fedex & UPS for free and have supplies delivered to you directly.  

These are just some of the essential equipment and supplies that a notary signing agent might need. Depending on the specific requirements of your notary work, you may need additional items as well.

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