On Jan 29, 2004, at 4:25 AM, Jill Whenmouth wrote: > I would greatly appreciate some perspectives, opinions, experiences, > thoughts, general Brainstorming, from any of you that are willing. > > He will need a printer, and he will need to fax, copy (not lots of > multiple > copies, just the ocassional copy), and scan. > My first thought was to get one of the multi-function printers, but > some of > them are monstrously big, and > 1. he doesn't have the space and > 2. they look so unaesthetic, esp next to the small ibook. > I bought a refurbished HP PSC1210 model a few months ago and I'm happy with it. It's a multi-function unit (print,scan,copy) with a small footprint. Placed next to my iBook, it looks good to me (for a non-Apple product). It does not fax and it is slow, but for $59 (after a $20 rebate) I could not complain. Maybe this might fit in your son's budget. Jim