[Electronics-talk] Cannon Mp280 Series printer

[Tony Sohl]

Hi , I got a new printer today at Walmart. The printer is completely accessible, because the printer does not have a touch screen and the printer costs $29.00 for an all in one printer. The printer has buttons on it and it's very easy to use. The software instalation CCd is a little tricky to navigate, however I was able to use the OCR in JAWS version 13 to read about the graphics and find the accept button for the licance agreement.

There is a paper tray in the front where the paper comes out and the paper feeds into the back of the printer. The nice thing is when it starts to print it will automatically open the paper tray for you and print. The pages will sit in the tray till you pull them out. The first page comes out first and then the rest of the pages come out. So basically what I have to do is to pull the first page out and then grab the next one. If I print a 2 page document then that's easy to do. All I have to do is to switch the page order. The printer also has a flatbed scanner so I can scan books and other documents.

The printer will work with open book Ruby software from Freedom Scientific and it was not to hard to setup the printer.