tina, I need to check on that. The one Walgreen's I use it's the same as their old 35mm film policy. You sit at the little machine, pick & choose, hit submit for your order and a receipt is printed. Then you can do 1 hour express or return next day for your prints. At least the last time I used it was like that, maybe 2 years ago? Maybe it's changed in that time? As an aside, there is a certain irony to this discussion for me. I love to take photos, family, trips, nature, whatever. Often have a camera in hand. I was diligent about keeping them in albums, neatly organized. When things started to go digital, I remember being so disappointed, thinking some day that's all it would be. The days of sitting alone or with someone, touching & holding real pictures and reminiscing would be going the way of oh..8 track players? :) Sitting around a PC just somehow isn't the same. Now today, here I am, with all my pics on PC, backed up on an external drive. (Which is not enough to prevent loss, need to do something extra.) I rarely print out photos anymore, unless I want to frame them. Share, no problem, zip them off in email, or to Facebook, or my private Pbucket album that family has the password to. Whodathunkit? ;)

Jamie, I am also delighted with these new printers. Mine is an HP and I have had no trouble with it at all. One time, when I was running copies on some cheap, thin paper, I had a JAM - It was real easy to un-jam. I gave up on the panic over the cost to cartriges. When you think of 25 cents a copy at a print shop, and up to a dollar for colored copies, that price isn't that bad. If you really want to justify the cost, just put a sticky note paper on top of the printer and add a hash-mark each time you run a copy. I bet you will find it to be a bargin. I guess the cost of paper would need to be figured in with that.

I have used Canons for many years. I would think the print head was clogged too but I have noticed that cartridges can fail too. I believe you said you had a new pigment black however so it is probably the head. There is a nice site that gives advise on repairing printers and a large section covers Canons. I sometimes had good luck by removing the inks, removing the print head and simply running water over the print head from both the ink and paper sides until no more inks come out. I let it completely dry before reinstallation. I assume that you remember about the print head cleaning routine in the maintainance tab and the following diagnosis from printing the colors and black grid? If not look it up. However, two years sitting dry might not be the best time to try the head cleaning routine. Here is a link that might be useful: Repair site

I have two suggested approaches, with no guarantee either would work. In order of preference: 1) plug the printer into the netbook. See if Windows on its own with the plug and play capability handles a driver download and install 2) Failing that, change the settings so that the printer is treated as a "network printer" and then try to add it as the default printer for the netbook. Absent that, you can share folders between the two PCs and when there's something on the netbook you want to print, save it to a folder on the desktop or on the laptop that the desktop is permitted access to and print from the desktop. There may be other approaches too.