A trip into Cardiff for a dental check up, I need one filling replaced so I made a follow up appointment. After the dentist I drove down to PC World on Newport Road and purchased a complete set of ink cartridges for my Canon i9100 printer. It’s a strange fact that with many A4 printers it’s around the same price to buy a new printer as it is to buy a set of new cartridges. The Canon doesn’t have that problem, it’s an A3+ printer and a set of ink cartridges are around a quarter of the price of the printer! This strange pricing is also true of A4 mono and colour laser printers where often a complete set of toner cartridges is around the cost of the printer. I suppose the moral is that after a while you’re better off considering a new printer rather than re-stocking the ink / toner on an existing model. One real bargain at PC World was the Targus Defcon 3 remote controlled laptop / bag alarm for around £4, I find them really useful for protecting my camera gear when I’m working on assignments in public areas.

I spent some time this afternoon preparing a set of high resolution print files for a customer, we offer the add on option of high resolution files on DVD to our wedding couples and quite a number have purchased the print ready files to make their own prints for themselves and their families.