Thursday, 10 August 2017

1954 Royal Quiet De Luxe Typewriter

My daughter mentioned that she was going to an antique market in Aberfoyle, On. Just outside of Guelph one day. I mentioned to here that I wanted a manual typewriter.
I had an electric one while I was in University but it was long gone.
She called me and asked if $35 was an OK price.
I think it was a Fantastic price.
This what she picked up.



The has seen better days and was really dusty. I cleaned up the best I could.


Pretty sure it is not meant to travel too much, even though it is portable. I weights a ton.

It does come out of the case.



The black ink ribbon that came with it worked but I picked up a Typecast Brown/black ribbon and it worked great.


Now it does not like cardstock weight paper. It just slides around but I am ok with that.
It has lots of features that I am still figuring out. Like the missing #1. I used the lower case "L".



And it goes nicely with my Cocoa Daisy August 2017 Planner Kit.(September planner)

I can't wait to used the kit and do some typing for it.



Saturday, 14 January 2017

Photo Scanner



I really want to organize my thousands of photos and get them into my computer. I have been researching photo only scanners and took the leap today. And well I am very disappointed. I purchased the Brother Image Centre ADS-2000 from Staples today for $426.00 Canadian.

I want a sheet fed scanner to save time.
I have an HP scanner printer but it is a flatbed and it takes forever to scan one photo and I do not want to be splitting photos if I scan a few at a time.
The Brother is nice and fast and does what I want work wise but the quality is terrible.
The colour is way off.

My HP all in one did a much better job but took forever for one scan.
This photo is much more true to colour. Grey vs the blue. Both were scanned at 600dpi.
I will be returning it to Staples as the salesman did say I had 30 days to try it and return it.
Back to my search. I would love to get the Epson Fast-foto but it is $899. If anyone has a sheet fed scanner and has had good results I would love to hear from you.
Marye Anne