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Now that winter is drawing in, days are getting shorter, wetter & colder, why not set yourself up with a new hobby to keep your mind and hands occupied. Maybe even give some of your work away as gifts with that personal touch at Christmas time. Friends and family will marvel at the time and effort you have put together with a few Canon ink cartridges and matt paper.

Get creative with this website which shows you many free images to browse and print as calendars/cards or ideas for papercraft, well worth a look to inspire you to make your own personalised gifts etc.

They show you pictures, let you download all the pages to make the image and you can print off instructions and then sit for hours and sometimes days by the looks of some of the projects!!

Saint Basils Cathedral – Red Square Moscow

A Slow Loris

A Pop up Birthday card

Baby Arrival disc holder

Step by step guide to using the iPrint app on your Epson printer and iPod touch/phone or pad. The app will automatically detect the nearby wireless Epson over Wi-Fi and lets you take control of them with your device.

Launch Epson iPrint by tapping the Epson iPrint icon.

1. The Epson iPrint splash screen will be displayed.
2. Select an available Photo Album to print an image from.
3. Choose an available image from the selected album.
4. At this point, no printer is currently selected. Tap the printer icon.
5. The Select Printer screen displays any available printers.
6. Tap to select and confirm a printer.

Epson iPrint preferences

You can print to a different paper size or layout and adjust the printable area of the image using Epson iPrint. No additional apps or programs are required to print an image from your Apple iPhone or iPod touch.

1. After you have set up a printer for use in Epson iPrint, choose the image you wish to print as per the instructions above.
2. Tap the symbol to show the print settings.
3. In the Settings screen, tap to select the layout type (borderless or with borders) and the paper size.
4. Select your paper size from the menu and tap Set.
5. You have the opportunity to adjust the image before printing.
   Image position adjustment allows you to move the position of the image if it is not the same aspect ratio as the selected paper size. This enables you to minimise cropping of an important area of an image and sacrifice less important areas of the image. This may be helpful when printing with the borderless layout setting.
   Tap Print when you are ready to print the image.
6. The screen will then display the activity icon, this is confirmation that the print job has been sent to the target printer.

Now that you know how easy it is to use your ipod/iphone with your Epson printer, make sure you don’t get caught short of Epson ink or paper… remember to stock up and have a set of Epson inks in the cupboard ready for your next impromptu printing session.

Brother iPrint&Scan is a fun and easy to use app designed for the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch.

Printing photos from your iPhone,  iPad or iPod Touch is quick and easy. This free and powerful app lets you print your favourite photos direct from your photo album to your compatible Brother multifunction printer

Simply tap the Brother iPrint&Scan app, flick through your photo album and select the photos you want to print. You can also change the paper size, paper type or the number of copies by simply hitting the print settings button and change the print options to match your requirements. Photo sizes supported include 10x15cm and A4, with both glossy and plain paper options as a sample of popular choices.

Tap the Print button and then the photo will be sent wirelessly to your Brother printer.

iPhone users can also print photo’s direct from the iPhone camera.

Another usefule feature in this app is that you can scan old photo’s or documents from your Brother multifunction printer direct to your device then share your moments through the web or over e-mail with friends and family as a JPEG or PDF file.

This is easy to set-up and configure with no need to install any additional drivers.

http://www.brother.eu/g3.cfm/s_page/230020/s_name/iphoneapp – go here to download the app for free. Below is a list of printers for which the app is compatible with.

Our Canon compatible ink cartridges produce high quality prints, save you money and are very reliable. I can’t compare on the newer range of cartridges yet as we still use the older range of ink cartridges here in the office for the Pixma IP4300, which is still going strong after it must be almost 3 years I think. We have a Brother printer at my feet which prints off the monthly invoices happily enough but as soon as it comes to any sort of advertising material or picture papers we want printed on I will get it ready on the USB flashdrive to take to the Canon printers computer as I know the results will be there with whatever paper I throw at it, as well as undertaking it’s daily processing of the website orders and business day to day running tasks.

The savings to be made using cheap ink cartridges are not to be ignored, change your ink cartridges even just every 3 months and at this moment in time you would be saving a whopping £202.47...

• 4 sets compatible Canon ink cartridges with chip on or website at the moment are £44.86
• 4 sets of Original Canon inkjet cartridges £247.28…