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"Richard Cavell" <richardcavell@mail.com> wrote in message
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> Okay, here's the task:
>
> I want to connect this printer to my Mac laptop and print Word files.
> These word files will contain mostly black-on-white text.  However, they
> will also contain full colour photographs.  The photographs will be of
> medical things (rashes, broken arms, etc), taken with a $500 digital
> camera with flash.
>
> The printer must be:
>
> 1.  Portable.  I want to put this, the consumables, and my laptop into a
> backpack and be able to carry it around.
>
> 2.  It would be nice to be able to print larger than 4 by 6 inches.
> Ideally I'd print on a size a bit smaller than A4 so I can stickytape
> the output to existing A4 forms.
>
> 3.  Cost of the unit up to around $500.
>
> Quality of the image is not such a big deal - any current model will
> print as well as I want it to.  Also, running costs are relatively
> trivial.  Speed of printing's not really an issue either.



Instead of lugging a printer around, save the file to one of those USB
thingies, take the thingie into a copy shop and let them do it.