Reba- I have never had a problem with this brand or the Cre8it brand. Only once when I put the shrink in my printer with the wrong (untreated) side up. The only thing you have to remember is that when images shrink to half their size they get about twice as dark. So your images have to be made lighter before you print them and they should not have lots of dark colors to start with- bright and pastel colors work better. Imagine looking at an image with a piece of tracing paper laid over it. That is sort of how you want to lighten you image for shrinking. You need to use some kind of image editing program to do this. I use Photoshop, lots of people use Paint Shop Pro or Adobe Photo Deluxe. There are other programs to use, but I don't have experience with them. Other thing is to let the shrink sit overnight or for a day to let the ink get good & dry. That way you have less chance of smearing it when you cut your shapes out. Once it shrinks the images will not easily scratch or smear, but you can finish them off with a light spray of clear sealer if you wish. Karen

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I just thought I'd offer this update on the mysterious change in scroll wheel light color. Background: I realize now that it was soon after I bought the mouse in question that I also downloaded the Opera browser, which I had previously uninstalled because I was getting along so well with FF (and still am). Today I was doing some "spring cleaning" and decided to uninstall Opera once again since I'm finding that I can get FF to do what I want more easily. Well, a few hours after I uninstalled Opera I noticed that the scroll wheel was back to its original blue !! I mean.... I know Opera is a great browser and is very customizable and everything, but I didn't know it would go so far as to change the color of my scroll wheel light from blue to Opera's trademark red ! ;-) ;-)

I actually took a look at my work desk. Monitor, keyboard & CPU Pix of DH & me Ceramic monkey I gave my Dad over 25 years ago Altoids box full of paper clips digi cam dozens of sticky note pads in assorted sizes sharpies, highlighters 2 hole punch stapler phone cell phone mouse pad more papers than any one person should have files, files, files phone log maps drawings printed emails staple remover wet wipes 2 bottles of hand sanitizer dachshund made of metal & a rock jar full of agates picture of Honolulu box of kleenex piles of napkins scanner-cat thing to scan files to me 3 binders of assorted sizes coffee cup several bottles of water in various depths bag of almonds water glass empty flower vase This is just on top of one desk. I have a table, a lateral file and a bookcase in my cube. I won't go into detail about what is on them...as well as my floor. Sigh.