Open your 2wire router? to the wifi page and copy the key to the hp printer? Sounds simple enough for the security key anyhow.

I guess you get what you pay for. I agree that the ESP3's haven't been getting good reports, but I have an ESP7 that I think the world of. I have an Epson Photo R260, a HP Deskjet 882, and an HP Photosmart 7350, and don't see much, if any, difference in the quality of the print from one to the other. I have never really counted the number of prints with any of the printers, but feel the Kodak is fairly close to what they advertise. Maybe I'm just lucky, but I've had nothing but good experience with this printer. Also, the ink is different than what is used in other printers and is not supposed to fade as fast. The only thing I don't like about it is it is noisy. I have the printer wired into a wireless router and run up to four computers into it. Never had any problems so far.

Thanks Zep. I'm quite willing to learn the Mac system and DH knows next to nothing about either. He needs little cheat sheets for each thing he wants to do. LOL! Not really concerned about file compatibilities -- I don't think. :-)) I'd probably put Open Office on the new one rather than buying another MS Office Suite. He won't do a lot of (like any) word processing and I understand anything I might create in OO will be viewable in MSO. If I were in need of editing then I'd C+P said info into a new Office Doc on my own 'puter and carry on. Might happen once a year. What I do not want is a problematical OS that I'm constantly running to fix so he can do something inane like play crib on Yahoo. I've made it a practice to avoid all MS upgrades for a considerable length of time before installing. It simply isn't worth the headaches and time involved. All that said perhaps a wiser, though possibly difficult, move would be to install my XP OS on the new laptop and buy Vista to install on my machine. I have to run thru some of the video info on Vista but I'm thinking I'd be the person that would be most likely to use (some of) the *bells and whistles* and he'd be more comfy with an interface that had some familiarity. Problem(s) arise in buying a laptop/notebook sans OS or with OS and then uninstalling / reinstalling . . . blah blah. Hmmm If I upgrade (can this be done?) to Vista on my XP machine, can I install my present XP system on the laptop? I have a gig of RAM now so would need to upgrade to 2 at least. I'll run the compatibility test but think most everything else should work. Have 2 80 Gig HD's, one of which is partitioned to run W'98 (cause I had games that hadn't yet had patches developed that I like to play). That was two plus years ago and now there are patches avail so likely this is no longer a concern. Lots of head scratching! :-)) Pleased to hear any shared thots. Thanks a bunch for the reply. Holly

That's a monochrome printer I think - just prints in black and white. So anything color is going to come out grey. If it wasn't for that (and this is what I had written before I realized your printer is B&W) . . . Many printer dialog boxes have a checkbox for Black & White, which should be unchecked, or the green will indeed come out grey. Check for that in both your software's print dialog box, and the printer's preferences/properties. And usually there is also a setting in the printer preferences to print darker or lighter.