The 11 States Where Unemployment Is Dropping The Fastest

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I shouldn't have gotten rid of my tractor feed wide format dot matrix Oki some years back.

My laser printer jams a lot more often. I probably need to replace the rollers, but the roller kit is only slightly less expensive than a new printer.

I still have my Epson LQ-1000, wide body, 24 pin, tractor feed.  It's parallel port so I would need some kind of adapter to use it since my old computer died.

[nathanm]

I still have my Epson LQ-1000, wide body, 24 pin, tractor feed.  It's parallel port so I would need some kind of adapter to use it since my old computer died.

My latest (now almost 5 years old!) laptop doesn't have an onboard parallel port but the docking station has one, luckily.

I think this is what you need. It's 8 bucks:

http://www.monoprice.com/products/product.asp?c_id=103&cp_id=10311&cs_id=1031104&p_id=1610&seq=1&format=2

(I'm pretty sure that particular Epson has a centronics connector, but it has been a few years since I dealt with parallel printers regularly)

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(I'm pretty sure that particular Epson has a centronics connector, but it has been a few years since I dealt with parallel printers regularly)

Centronics at the printer, 25 pin D-sub at the other end is the cable I have.  (Not to be confused with a 25 pin D-sub serial connector which was the opposite gender.)

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I should probably get a new laptop.  It's vintage mid 90s, Win 95.  I have to hold the CD drive closed and the last time I tried to use it, the 3-1/2 FDD wouldn't read.  I obviously don't have much need for laptop but I have a few applications that need one.  


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Compatibility - presently running an iMac.

[nathanm]

There are a few parallel port devices that have 25 pin d-subs, but they're pretty rare. Almost all 25 pin d-subs on computer peripherals are serial, as you noted.

It's amazing how long dot matrix printers will go. One of my clients has had an Epson DFX-8000 for nearly 20 years, and they printed several hundred pages on a slow day until about 5 years ago when they replaced it with an 8500 because it's quite a bit faster. They still use the 8000 to print checks so they don't have to bother with changing out the paper and getting it lined up correctly.

The 8500 is dual-feed, but they already have 8.5x11 on one feed and wide format green/white spreadsheet paper on the other.

Printing checks on a laser printer is so much easier in that sense, but you have to have software that can write the routing and account numbers on the bottom correctly and MICR toner, which doesn't come cheap. Depending on who you're writing checks to, you can sometimes get away without MICR since most banks just scan them, do OCR, and destroy the original these days, but there are a few banks out there that insist on doing things the old way and they get upset (and charge large fees) if they have to manually process the checks because the routing and account numbers aren't in magnetic ink.

[drew27parker]

Nate, you know the answer. Those that are no longer considered eligible to count because they've been out of work too long. You know, the "ones" that don't want to work or are too depressed without medical insurance to get help getting off the floor.

The ones who don't want to work should not be counted as unemployed I think as it is their choice not to work and not others.

[sauerkraut]

Yes, they keep changing the way unemployment is counted to make the rate look lower than it really is. The real rate today under Obama is around 17% that is if you count all the unemployed jobless people- but they don't count people job hunting who have not yet found work as being unemployed- people with part time jobs and the under employed, or people who just gave up looking for work and dropped out none of those count against the unemployment rate. Since Mary took control our jobless rate kept falling & falling and our economy got better & better. Her pro-business atitude and get gov't out of the way atitude way are big factors for business when it comes time to hire, expand and grow in a state- or close up shop and move elsewhere to another state  where the business climate is more favorable. If you were a business looking for a state to move to- or expand in where whould you go? To a high tax, high regulation state or to a low tax low regulation state?

[nathanm]

Yes, they keep changing the way unemployment is counted to make the rate look lower than it really is.

It hasn't changed since sometime in the 90s (at least). I've posted the citation to how the rate is calculated many times. And the BLS publishes numbers on the underemployed and the discouraged workers, as well as the overall labor participation rate (which includes people who aren't working and don't want work, like retirees, SAHMs, and students)

[Jammie]

Sauerkraut, Neb. is on the chart. You just have to move the blue line at the bottom to the right. It's number two for unemployment.

[sauerkraut]

They are saying that the housing market crashed even more and is down another 5% this year and the economy is about to tip into a double dip recession, the high fuel prices are starting to take a toll, people only have so much money in their paychecks. Things are really looking grim.

[Conan71]

Thanks for the cheery post, Sauer.

[Townsend]

They are saying that the housing market crashed even more and is down another 5% this year and the economy is about to tip into a double dip recession, the high fuel prices are starting to take a toll, people only have so much money in their paychecks. Things are really looking grim.

Actually, my outlook is awesome.

Sorry you're bowl is full of pits.

[Hoss]

They are saying that the housing market crashed even more and is down another 5% this year and the economy is about to tip into a double dip recession, the high fuel prices are starting to take a toll, people only have so much money in their paychecks. Things are really looking grim.

Those prices really suck in Nebraska...

[sauerkraut]

Unemployment jumped once more in May. Obama is taking our nation in the  wrong direction. The raising of the debt ceiling all the time instead of cutting spending will result in the USA becoming like Greece, Moodys rating will take the USA down a notch or two if that spending is not cut. Things are still as grim as ever. The housing market also fell another 5%. They say the economy can't recover much until the housing market reverses direction.

[sauerkraut]

Thanks for the cheery post, Sauer.

It's not all that bad, the silver lining is that Obama will be like Jimmy Carter a one term president. I expect the economy to improve quickly when we get a new GOP president in 2012 no matter who he or she will be.

[Townsend]

Unemployment jumped once more in May. Obama is taking our nation in the  wrong direction. The raising of the debt ceiling all the time instead of cutting spending will result in the USA becoming like Greece, Moodys rating will take the USA down a notch or two if that spending is not cut. Things are still as grim as ever. The housing market also fell another 5%. They say the economy can't recover much until the housing market reverses direction.

Which "they"?  The same "they" as your other worthless post?