Printers were never really my thing.
They were just something i NEEDED in the office at my previous jobs,
and were usually the bane of my working day,
because they’d decide not to work for some unknown reason (or the reason would take a few hours to surface).

I hated having to print things.

First i’d have to make sure that my pc was connected to the correct printer (out of the 3 or 4 available),
then i’d have to make sure the right paper size was selected.
And i’d have to make sure the paper tray wasn’t empty.
Even after all that, sometimes what i sent to print wouldn’t appear,
because someone else’s printing got stuck or something before that.

And then when i finally get what i sent to print,
i’d get 3x the copies i needed cos i frustratedly pressed ‘PRINT’ too many times.
Which would cause me to get more frustrated at having wasted paper -_-

And sometimes, it just WOULDN’T print from my pc,
causing the IT guy to scratch his head,
and wonder aloud whether i’m cursed with all things that required technology.

Which would then cause me to email a colleague with what i have to print and ask very nicely whether they could please help me print from their pc cos it just wouldn’t from mine!

So as you can see,
my relationship with printers = abominable.

Since i’ve been working from home,
a printer has been in need…
and i got one for Christmas  

My new HP Photosmart Premium e-AiO C310a with ePrint technology!

HP’s ePrint technology allows my printer to be connected to my wireless router.
A personalized email is then given to me (exclusive to my printer).
With this email, all i, or anyone has to do, is just send files to it whereby the files will be printed out automatically!

Freaking amazing.

I love it cos it’s sexy, black and sleek.
To make it more ‘me’, i promptly placed two fairy figurines on it.

After connecting it to my router and getting the printer online,
i was wondering WHICH button to press to get that personalized email.
Remembered i had to hang my clothes (just got back from France, LOTS of laundry to do!)
and while i was in the garden, i heard the faint buzzing of something printing by itself.

Oh no… don’t tell me i didn’t press something i was supposed to (how would i know!) and it’s printing something i don’t want!

Padahal it automatically printed me the email i was looking for!
IdiotUser-friendly or what!

[had to blur out my email a bit okay]

I tested it by sending my hpeprint.com email some documents from my gmail,
and counted 15 seconds before it started printing by itself.

Eureka!

I felt so accomplished not having to wrestle with the printer or pray feverishly for it to work!
So now, anyone ANYWHERE can send me a document or picture to print immediately.

As long as the person sending it has email,
they can send me things to print – from an Apple® iPad™, an iPhone™, a Blackberry® or other smartphone, a desktop PC, a work or personal laptop, or a netbook computer, it doesn’t matter!

I can send (from my phone) a document my parents need while i’m out at a meeting,
or they could print it themselves from their own emails.
No software setup (benci!) required!

I gave Yishyene, who’s in London, my printer email,
and one afternoon my printer started printing by itself cos she sent me a picture of us from her iPhone, from halfway round the world! 

Apparently as long as standard files are sent – PDF, Word, PowerPoint, jpg, gif, png, bmp – it’ll be printed out easily with no problems.

When i was getting the printer,  i asked: “What if people find out the email and send me junk i don’t want to get printed?”
They said that if so, i can just opt for a protected mode and choose all my preferred senders so i don’t get stuff that wastes my ink and paper.

Besides being a printer, it opens up to be a scanner as well.

And because the printer is connected to the internet,
HP has teamed up with other brands to create special web apps exclusively for their printers!
I use the touchscreen to surf through what i want!

Using my finger to surf on a printer… who would’ve thought!

There’s this cool one with Dreamworks where i can choose which movie i want,
and then view all the children’s activities available for print.

I printed one out and seeing there isn’t a child nearby to give it to do,
i did it myself 

Never again shall i go see my friends’ children empty-handed!
Now i can print all the activities i need to keep them quiet while we catch up heh heh

There’s also a Crayola one,
and Sudoku.

I don’t play Sudoku,
but Clem does 
I chose the most difficult one for him to try… Evil.

It automatically prints it out with the answers on the back.
Sorry it’s so hard for me to be excited bout Sudoku cos i don’t see what’s so great about it  -_-

Besides fun and games, i can choose a type of printed paper like so:

I like child rule!

And a few others as well:

I thought the Bing maps was pretty cool for when we travel and don’t have internet access/google maps with us.
Sometimes we just gotta carry maps the old school way!

There’s a cool one called Tabbloid, where i can choose my favourite blogs and let Tabbloid compile them to be printed.
But i was thinking i read all these online anyway so i’d rather continue doing that and SAVE paper!

Anyway, that ends my post about my new tech toy to start 2011!

The printer i got retails at RM699.00 btw 

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