Thank you to everyone who offered advice in my previous journal. You all helped me to come to a decision and I appreciate your responses.

Yesterday, I went out and bought a shiney new Canon Pixma MP630 and probably gave my flu to a couple of sales staff (sorry!).

It took me about an hour to set up and three more hours to clean up all the packaging that comes with it. I also bought some photo paper to go with it and test it straight away.

My first print was 'Family Portrait 2009'. And it looks fantastic at 300dpi. It sits framed on my desk now.

Its also got a built in scanner (so I can retire my old one) and a cd/dvd printer (art cds, maybe?) and a tonne of other features I'll probably never use.

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And now I'm over my flu, I can finish off those commissions I'm working on. This is really taking the piss - I should have had them all finished by now. Most are in the colouring stage so those of you who got in early, your commissions are nearly done.

And now I have a printer, those of you with key-ring commissions dont need to wait for me to goto the photo place to get them printed. Unfortunately, I still have to do the run into town to get buttons made.