iMac - the right choice?

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Julia,

Problems with a printer? Printing seems so basic? What was the issue?

It was weird. It wouldn't print "fast draft" mode for pdfs from my computer. It worked fine with the PC, and it worked fine with every other type of file on my computer, but not the pdfs. They all printed super slowly in high resolution. It was a dealbreaker because I'm teleworking, so my office is scanning lots of big pdfs that I need to print to do my job. Printing (and scanning) big documents fast was the whole reason we got a new printer.

We exchanged it for a different brand, which is working fine now. But it was an irritating ordeal. The guys at the Apple store said it was a fluky thing that probably involved the way Macs "package" image data and send it to the printer.

I guess my thing is that DH and I are both pretty savvy about PCs. I know how to fiddle with them when things go wrong. The Mac is designed to be so user-friendly that it is often impossible to figure out how to fiddle with them. Stuff rarely goes wrong, of course - it's just when it does, I almost always end up at the Apple store, because I just can't figure out how to fix it on my own.