New Printer

[richardf8]

morgan1 and I replaced our dead and much maligned Inkjet today. We found a pretty cheap Laer Printer, A Konica/Minolta 3500W. My feelings about it are mixed - I totally shopped price on this one, because this was in many ways a needful purchase, and while I would have preferred the cheapest OKI PagePrinter, this was about 70 bucks cheaper

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[makovette]

Very cool - looks like we have both had a Happy Hardware Day :)

CYa!
Mako

[richardf8]

Since you seem to do it as a matter of habit, it's probably going to be a bit difficult to explain. Probably the best way to put it is that you are not afraid to let your characters take up a lot of space in a panel, whereas I tend to show a whole lot of the room and make my characters relatively small - as if I'm afraid to let them take up space. They don't really DOMINATE the panel like they should. Cases in point, because I have the originals handy are the January 4th and December whenever strips. In Panel 3 of the December strip the figures are small enough that not a whole lot of detail is visible on them, there's more distance than necessary between Willie and Grendel, all so that I can show an expanse of kitchen counter. In the January 4th strip, I've plunked Willie's mom in a vast expanse of an unfurnished room - like her furniture was repossessed or something. In Panel 2 Grendel and Willie should both be closer to Willie's mom and most of that room excluded from the shot. (I tend to think like a cinematographer when I

[c_eagle]

ooo yes! And I love how the laser ones last so much longer than inkjets, too :>