Last August I moved from Ohio to Massachusetts. Jan & I planned on taking about 3 weeks for the trip so we could get in some sightseeing photo time on the way. For the trip I packed my computer tower, 3 DSLR's and about 8 lenses plus an assortment of other odds & end. The remainder of my equipment was packed and shipped with an anticipated delivery date of 4 to 6 week. For my photo business I usually deliver the end item in digital format on a memory card or I have prints made through Adorama but I did need a new monitor for my computer so about a day after arriving in Massachusetts Jan and I went to Staples and got a nice flat screen(I had been using one of the old desktop boat anchors..LOL). Jan is just a beginner at photography and she said she wanter to get a photo printer for her computer, so we looked around to see what our options were. One a display in the isle they had the Kodak ESP 7250 All-in-one on sale. Normal list for the wireless model $129 and the hard wire model $99 less 25% for the next 2 days. I didn't know a thing about Kodak printers but in my mind it had three things going for it. 1.It was the cheapest printer in the store, 2. It is advertised at using the cheapest ink, 3. Would Kodak put their name on a photo printer that doesn't do a descent job of printing photos? When I got it home rather than mess with a detailed Wifi setup I just plugged in a USB cable from the printer to my router. Inserted the setup disc and sat back. Within moments I was watching a setup video that said it was all set up and went on to explain the features. Two paper trays. The top tray will handle up to 5x7 photo paper or business envenlopes and the bottom tray handles up to 8.5x11 legal size bond or photo paper. When your printing photos it will ask you which size you want and select the paper automatically. I had a pack of 8x10 generic photo paper so I loaded a sheet, went to my pictures and pulled up a photo then hit print. A couple clicks as it loaded the paper then it went silent. "What is wrong" I thought? About 10 to 15 seconds later I got my answer. nothing wrong, it just prints so quiet you can't hear it running till the finished print pops out. I then checked the print, and to say I was not happy would be an understatement. I can only eplain it in one word...trash. The print had way too much ink, was still wet and actually smeared when I touched it then the thought hit me, those are new ink catridges and usually you have to run a test print to set up the print heads. I checked the book, and sure enough, there is an easy test print to run, but I found something even more interesting. You only need to run the test print if you use non-Kodak photo paper. So here is the catch I thought. All genuine Kodak photopaper has a bar code printed on the back of the paper that tells the printers processor how to set the print head for that piece of paper. This means you can easily switch from gloss to semi-gloss or matt without changing the setup, but how much does genuine Kodak paper cost? To my complete surprise, while Kodak Paper is a bit high in Staples, at WalMart it is the same or cheaper than HP photo paper. When I began running prints on genuine Kodak paper I could not believe my eyes. The prints look better than those that we had printed at Walmarts 1hr service. To get a good test of the prints I selected 6 photos and put them on a memory card, then I printed them on this machine. I then took the memory card to 4 different 1hr photo service places around town and had them printed again, being careful to mark the back of the photos to know where they were printed. I then took all the photos to the photoclub meeting at our senior center and spread them on a table and asked everyone to select which they thought looked the best. Over 90% of the people who participated selected the prints from this printer. The printer also has built in memory card readers so it can be used as a stand alone printer, and the Wifi model will work directly from Ipods & Cell phones. Would I recommend this printer? Absolutely YES. in fact since I bought this one over half the people in our photo club have also bought one. I primarily use 4x6 paper, which is $7.00 per 100sheet for brilliant glossy white at Walmart. I have not priced the ink at Walmart but at Staples the ink is $19.89 for the color and $9.98 for the Black, but staples also gives a $2 rebate for any used cartridge you turn in. (Up to 10 empties per month). I just found a website this morning for cheaper ink cartridges for almost all printers. Thru the site I can get color cartidges for this printer for $9.98 www.inkjetSuperstore.com

Mine is in another room, in my Hoosier cabinet. I have a wireless network, and the printer is hooked up to another computer that is on all the time. I rarely actually print, most stuff is printed to Acrobat as a pdf file and saved on my computer. I share the printer and a lot of the folders on both computers so I can go back and forth between them and open, print and manipulate files on either computer. Here is a link that might be useful: Computer in kitchen

Here is a pic of our desk in progress: The top cabs will have seeded glass and house my grandmother's wedding china and some other treasures. The center bottom (of the top cabs) will be for a tv, phone, and modem stuff (hopefully most wires, etc hidden behind the tv). The lower cabs are being replaced by counterheight cabs. That's what we had in the kitchen before, and liked it that way. It was the only thing our cabinet guy and I failed to communicate about -- he saw desk on the plans and ordered desk height. I assumed he'd notice that they were cab height when he measured the old kitchen. Anyway, he was very nice when I called and said I wasn't happy and is replacing them with the counter height at their expense. I'll keep large hostess stuff in those cabs, and desk stuff in the drawers. We're using the same countertop on the desk as everywhere else(Cambria Branbury). I will make a fabric covered corkboard for the backsplash. There will be plugmold under the upper cabs. We liked having the desk in the kitchen before, so it was not changed much for the new kitchen -- just the glass doors and tv shelf in the uppers. It was home headquarters, and the place we left messages for each other, my purse -- it did collect some clutter, but I cleared it away regularly. It also made a great beverage station when we had parties. HTH --Amy

CeltinNE, I have both shared and private Google Docs. We have a shared doc for family recipes. This is so handy when we're at Mom's and she can't find her beautifully handwritten recipe card, but we can find it on one of our devices and finish making it by the time she finds her card. You can set the sharing settings for each document individually. If you have handwritten recipes you'd rather scan than type, you can upload them as PDFs. Another option I've just started using is Evernote. It has an awesome web clipper browser extension that will copy the meaningful part of a web page, minus the ads, into a note in your Evernote account. Evernote will also do OCR on scanned handwriting I believe, so that it is searchable. I like Google Docs or Evernote, because I don't want to be tied into a proprietary technology that could disappear. Google supports common standards that will not be disappearing; it will export to PDF, text, Word, etc. Evernote supports PDF. Evernote is committed to the portability of your data and supports every device platform out there. I would not to get a lot of recipe content locked up in some app that's not supported a few years from now. A lot of these apps are going to fall by the wayside. Also, I want my recipes in files so I can have them on any device. And yes, there are cabinet mounts for iPad. Any kind of mount or case you can imagine, they're out there. Check out ilounge.com for a dizzying array. If you are thinking about remodeling a kitchen, and thinking about an iPad, the iPad suddenly seems cheap if you figure you can use it instead of a bunch of shelves for books, binders, or files. I have several pieces of furniture full of music in my office and realized that another piece of furniture to store music is so many hundred dollars. I am scanning and getting rid of many originals, so just in furniture storage space, the iPad is helping pay for itself. Just think about how much that shelf space in your kitchen or den is going to cost you. Now granted, this is not going to help the avid cookbook collectors, but that's not me.