@whirlcool and MattL:
We have four printers in my office: two are HP 1020s, one is a 3015 all in one, and one is a 3030 all in one. Because they were all purchased within a two year period, they all use the same toner cartridge, so toner inventory is greatly simplified. If you buy in lots of three or four, the price can be as low as $20 each, shipping included. Their prices for ink cartridges are also the lowest around.
They are also an excellent source for blank CDs and DVDs. I have a DVD recorder with built in tuner (actually, it also has a VHS slot and was intended for conversion of tapes to DVD for preservation, plus it can record tv channels to a DVD (say for a movie that you want to keep/share). It has a built=in tuner for recording. It can only record on DVD-R (not DVD+R) and no higher than 8x speed. Originally it was 4 x but there was a firmware upgrade that boosted it to 8x. Although DVD-R disks are easy to find, most in the stores are 16X, but SuperMediaStore.com has them in all speeds, at very low prices. Without their source I would not be able to use my DVD recorder.
I first discovered them when I was co-chair of my high school 30th reunion. We were doing a photo CD with scans of all of the class photos from grade school (Kindergarten thru 6th grade) plus scans of the two middle schools, plus scans of the three local parochial schools (many of the parochial kids ended up in our public high school). We didn't scan the high school yearbooks because of file size/complexity, plus the belief that people had hung on to their yearbooks more than they hung on to third grade photos).
One special feature of the CD was the inclusion of a home movie of our graduation ceremony, which was interrupted by two dozen streakers from the junior class:
It was caught by accident by several parents with Super 8mm cameras, and we converted one film for the reunion CD. We had hired a company to manufacture the disks for us, but when they saw the streaker content, they refused. The result was that we had to make them ourselves. One of our classmates, A CAPTAIN AT NORTHWEST AIRLINES, had an inkjet printer that could print the tops of the disks, so he designed the artwork and printed 250 blank disks, which I had shipped to him from SuperMediaStore.com. Then, on the weekend before the reunion, three of my classmates joined me at my office to burn 250 disks, using three computers with burners in my office, plus five laptops with burners brought by the others, plus two non-burner laptops that served as quality control testers: each disk was tested before it was packaged in a case. I'm surprised we didn't blow out the local power grid.
The link to the infamous video is below:
