So, on Saturday night after work, I came home to find the new printer waiting for me to install it.

Based on PC World's ratings, we had decided on the HP Photosmart 7550, which I later found to be discontinued, replaced with their new flagship, the HP Photosmart 7960. For a little more money, it offered greater print quality (adding support for HP's new Photo Gray cartridge), a larger LCD display, and it "looked a lot better" according to my brother. Yeah, he picked it based on it looking nicer than the 7550 ^^;;

And, oddly enough, the person working in that section at the time recommended they buy Canon paper for it. Such a silly concept, Canon paper in an HP printer. ^^;

Aside from having to free up a large amount of space from C drive, installation went with little problem. The printer, oddly enough, doesn't come with a USB connection cable, and the box of course says to buy the HP branded cable. I was afraid it was something proprietary (and I wouldn't put such a thing past HP), but it turned out to be a run-of-the-mill type port - the same type that cable modems use. It so happened I had two of these cables, since the cable modems actually come with them. So, out came the one from the old cable modem's box.

Of course, the first thing we printed was a photo of our mom. ^^ We actually printed it twice, first with the standard Black cartridge, then swapping in the Photo Gray cartridge to see what the difference was. Turns out, using just the Black cartridge results in all the shadows in the photo disappearing. Strange.

So, yeah, we have a new printer. The old HP OfficeJet 710 is still hooked up, since I still use it to scan/copy/fax things. We are out of USB ports (even with the hub), but the OfficeJet uses the parallel port, so we're fine there. Of course, my brother doesn't really want anything to do with it anymore, since it apparently never printed anything for him properly. (Blame HP's lack of drivers for it that are fully compatible with Windows XP - apparently, Fast User Switching breaks it. Thankfully, the new printer doesn't seem to have the same problem.)

Anthony's new TV is coming in Wednesday, but I won't be able to go up there as planned because I got scheduled for work consecutively on Wednesday to Friday. I'll either end up going Wednesday night (and staying over until I have to return to work) or just going up sometime over the weekend. You know, I could have sworn it's been well over two weeks since I put in my two week notice... though right now, I do need the money, so I haven't really debated the issue.