So I decided it was time for my family to rejoin the modern era and invest in a printer that would handle printing photos.

This was instigated by kodak sending me a free sample of glossy photo paper.

Well, it came in today while I was at work (unsurprising, ups always seems to deliver around 7pm or later to my house) and was very welcome when I got home (work ended on a distressing note)

After HP put my computer through many trials and tribulations, including printing a test page on my dear precious glossy paper, and forcing me to reboot, not to mention turning my monitor off ¬¬ I got this HP inkjet 5400 installed.

Of course I tested it on photos of stu and myself. this wasn't a very large image as it had been resized, but when I showed it to my mother, she was enthralled.

The second I tested with it was a very cute one of him alone, and since it was the original image from his camera, it is just *gorgeous*.

I abused the borderless printing feature, so perhaps my friends will never realize it was not actually a photo developed somewhere.

Have you guys ever been so excited about being on the not-quite cutting edge of technology, but so far ahead of what you were that you were positively giddy?

Do you guys print your own photos?