[TCML] You can make your own bumper stickers fairly easily...

[Davetracer@xxxxxxx]

You can go to Office Depot (or stores like it) or MicroCenter (or stores  
like it) and buy Do-It-Yourself Bumper Stickers. They're for inkjet  printers, 
not lasers; the laser printers are too hot. Just design the  slogan you want on 
your bumper sticker and print it out from MS Word or  OpenOffice or Paint or 
whatever. They're in convenient sizes; some come 2 to a 8  1/2 x 11 page, which 
makes them very easy to feed into a printer. There's around  50 bumper 
stickers in each package and it's priced very reasonably.
 
Of course, the real work is figuring out a good slogan for the  bumper 
sticker.
 
I think mine might be:
 
     "Electrical Sports:
     Tesla: 1, Edison 0".
 
    Or, possibly, 
 
    "Edison is DC."
 
    To really make them wonder,
 
    "My Tesla Coil Ionizes My Gasses"
 
    Or the strange, 
 
    "CAUTION: Tesla Coil On Board", in a 4 inch yellow  square with a small 
Tesla Coil figure,
 
    or the scary,
 
    "Vehicle Protected By Tesla Coil".
 
Naturally my son has borrowed my inkjet printer. 
 
Let me mention something on laser printers that might interest the group. I  
have an HP 4050 for industrial-strength printing, and that printer is what I  
call "HP Old School", typical of HP in the days when everything from HP was 
top  quality. I think it's paper jammed maybe 3 or 4 times since I bought it in 2
001.  All it asks is for more paper. This year, after printing who knows how 
many  copies of my son's book drafts, it finally asked for more toner. I 
strongly  recommend paying the extra money on a laser printer because when 
engineers have  extra money, they tend to design better printers, and it's worth it in 
the long  run.
 
Tip: The new motherboards out there no longer have a 25-pin parallel  printer 
interface on them! So if you're driving your printer from a  parallel printer 
cable, be certain your new computer can push it. I had  to buy a network card 
for the HP 4050 so I could print from the new computer I  just built up. You 
may also be able to buy a parallel printer card -- IF  your motherboard has 
expansion slots that'll do that. The newer ones tend  towards the dinky 
more-video interface slots, not PCI.
 
Thanks,
 
    David Small
 
 
 
In a message dated 11/20/2008 1:57:51 P.M. Mountain Standard Time,  
wsmg@xxxxxxxxxx writes:

Hey  David & all

I could print up some bumper stickers or have some  longer lasting ones 
printed up if enough people wanted them. I would have  to design 
something and see if you guys and gals like it. You should  probably 
e-mail me direct so we don't load up the  list.

Stan



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