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[rivka]

I finally got an account number for my new grant!

That means that I get to start buying stuff now. Like computers. We've been anxiously hovering over our e-mail, waiting to hear from the Business Office, because the word is that starting June 1st you won't be able to buy a PC with Windows XP on it anymore. And I'm damned if I'm going to run Vista.

On my shopping list: a desktop and a laptop for me. A desktop for Steve, who is my right-hand man on this grant. 24-inch monitors for both of us. I've got $3000 budgeted for "office supplies" - that buys an awful lot of file folders and pens. Let's see... a cashbox. Thumb drives. Software? A fun twirly office-supplies organizer? Some of the supplies money will have to go for postage, thanks to a fairly ridiculous IRB call.

I have no idea how to spend $3000 on office supplies. What a lovely problem to have.

(Sorry, don't mind me. This is the first time I've ever had untrammelled purchasing power, and it's going to my head a bit.)

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[baratron.livejournal.com]

I have a Hewlett Packard Officejet Pro L7680 All-in-One Printer, Fax, Scanner, Copier. I've never used the fax function and have only used the scanner once or twice, but the printing and photocopying is AWESOME. It does double-sided printing and photocopying with the press of one button, and you can do fancy things like photocopy single-sided onto double-sided or vice versa. It also has a document feeder on the top which will copy double-sided, in colour!

Quite honestly it's the fastest printer I've ever used. The XL artridges last around 1500 sides of A4 (no idea what that is in American). I make one copy of exam papers or books manually, then do all the rest using the sheet feeder.

It also has an automatic document archive system, so you can scan in receipts or invoices and save them to a file on the network.