Can anyone recommend a reliable, small wireless printer?

I am looking for a (as small as possible) wireless printer that works well wirelessly under OSX and could become a potential print center also for my iPad. I have had an Epson wireless PX800FW for a while, but it is bulky and the wireless connection is a pain to set up. I am looking for something smaller and simpler.
Thank you!

I'd really recommend the Canon MP640. However not word yet on Airprint compatability (although I have escalated this to Canon support). The scanning function works wirelessly too.

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I am still in the Middle Ages as far as connectivity goes. USB2, Firewire and eSATA serve my needs. Though my MBP has a Thunderbolt port, I have not taken that step.
Take a look at what OWC has to offer:
https://eshop.macsales.com/search/thunderbolt
This just a sample but should give you a good idea what is available. Naturally there are vendors as well.
Note that Thunderbolt hardware can be daisy chained, so not feel that you are restricted to two devices.
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Can anyone by experience recommend a good and affordable printer for an ipad2?

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We have a small business that needs one. We’ve been using an Okidata C5300 for the last 6 years and it’s worked really well, but starting to have some issues with it, more so after Snow Leopard. I’m thinking it may be time to switch to a more modern design and driver. We need something that prints reasonably quickly, but doesn’t have to be a speed demon. Would like the cost of toner to be relatively reasonable, it’s amazing how that stuff adds up.
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Based on your needs I think the OJ Pro series would work well.
It prints at about 35 PPM so 150 -200 pages a day wouldn't be much work for it at all.
The model I specified can connect via USB, Wi-Fi or Ethernet so you can easily connect to your network. It also does all of the functions over the LAN meaning print, scan, copy and fax and will do two kinds of jobs simultaneously. For example if user A is printing, user B can be scanning (or faxing or copying) at the same time.
Do the arithmatic on it. Here is a web page HP supplies that helps you calculate the cost per page based on your needs. The URL for that is: http://h10060.www1.hp.com/pageyield/en-019/yieldSearch.html?cCode=us
It also does auto duplexing printing, scanning & copying.
It was designed specifically for people with needs similar to yours. There is a myth that Lasers are cheaper than Inkjet based on very old information.
BTW I don't work for HP or sell HP products I'm just a satisfied end user. I'd recommend reading the reviews, looks like customers really like it.
Roger

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Hi everyone,
I going to buy an external hard drive to back up my photos and music. I already use time machine, but I've lost files so many times in the past, either through equipment eventaully not working or laptops being stollen etc. So I guess I am backing my photos and music up twice. I want to get a reliable hard drive, with a lot of space (as I have a lot of photos and music) whilst keeping costs fairly reasonable.
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Well as with anything it can fail in one day or not for 10 years.
I have been using the Western Digital My Book Essential drives for about 5 or 6 years and the first 2 I bought, a 250GB and then a 500GB, are still working. So based on that, and the price and that it is USB 3, I purchased the newer style 2TB model.
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I would like to store video clips as well as work off of a external HD (using FW800). I was looking at the G-Drive/G-Raid. Are they any good. Any other external HD's that are well known and reliable?

I've used Lacie, GTech & worldspan and many other drives over the years - from experience I would steer clear of Lacie, just my choice. I haven't seen the problems Shane is talking about, but listen to his experience. I think you are on to the right track with G-drive personally.
one little tip I can recommend when you get your drive -
deep format it in mac os extended (un journaled - you do not need a media drive to be journalled), then partition as follows 1 x 1gig partition labelled do not use (make this the first partition on the drive) 1 x whatever is left .
in my experience (working at a large facility with lots of FW drives) leaving the small partition alone protects the drives boot sector and if it does go down you can still recover your media. Don't ask me why (there are bound to be more skilled responses from here) hard experience has said it works....
Oh and don't let your drive go near a PC, freaky things happen
best regards
andy

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Hi,
Thanks for the heads up and congratulations on making level 8.
Looking at the OP's other posts it seems he was looking to record from an external device and isn't the propose of Greatdy Audio to shunt audio from one app to another? At least that is how I read it. If so then it's not going to do anything for the OP if he's looking to record an external device.
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Thanks for your input Chris.
I've been trawling through Google searches to find reviews of various drives. I guess that I'm looking for a pair of 500gb mirrored RAID drives with USB2, Firewire 400 & 800 connections.
I'm having trouble getting away from Other World Computing's Mercury Elite–AL Pro 800 RAID STRIPE FireWire 800/400.
http://eshop.macsales.com/CustomizedPages/Framework.cfm?page=mealp/mealpraid.html
But my trouble now is that I can't find a UK stockist so I think I'll have to start looking for other brands such as Maxtor.
Can anyone recommend a reliable manafacturer ??
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Can anyone recommend a good printer for working with an iMac and a MacBook Pro wirelessly?

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Can anyone recommend a USB print server for both Mac & Windows?

After spending at least 20 hours trying to get my Macbook to print to a Windows XP shared printer, I am giving up and going the print server route. Unfortunately there seem to be a LOT of options and some are >$100. I want to be sure to find one that works for both Mac and Windows XP. Can anyone recommend a print server based on experience?
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