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I want to sell some personalised photo projects I have prepared, i.e. calendars, gift cards, etc. All of these contain as the principle element personal photos received from the buyer. I have, however, used some stock photos as decorative elements or in the background.

So far I've used dreamstime and photoxpress. There terms are as follows:

Dreamstime restrict

Web templates, greeting cards or postcards especially designed for sale, similar print-on-demand services, canvas, t-shirts, mugs, calendars, postcards, mouse pads or any other items incorporating the image in an essential manner, intended to be sold or given for free, are considered redistribution (if the image is used in an essential manner). The use of Dreamstime.com images for these purposes under the regular Royalty Free license is not permitted. It is also forbidden to make the image available on a website for download (as wallpapers for example), although you may use the image in a concept in as many websites as you want, for any number of clients. For Web use, you must not use the image at a width exceeding 800 pixels unless it is included in your site's design. If the image is part of a design and manipulated accordingly, the image width can be higher than 800 pixels.

photoxpress restrict:

(f) Use, reproduce, distribute or display the Work in connection with any goods or services intended for resale or distribution which primary value lies in the work itself, including, without limitation, mugs, t-shirts, posters, greeting cards, posters or other merchandise, and any of the foregoing in "print on demand" or tangible or electronic formats, as applicable;

So for example if I place a RF Christmas tree in the corner of my card, or a snowflake background, I would like to check if this can be deemed 'not of primary value' or 'non essential manner', using the terminology of these two site.

Am planning to get a new all in one printer to run on vista.

Priorities are:

high resolution both for printing and scanning (speed not important) low cartridge costs/consumption.

long life printing (my hp 5550 deskjet prints fade in no time at all at the moment)

So far have been enticed by the canon pixma 540 or the slightly pricier 630 and the HP 5380. Have heard Epson good quality but need frequent cartridge changes.

Any thoughts / recommendations (want to spend around £100-150 max)

I want to buy a new pc to use primarily with video and photo editing (PREMIERE ELEMENTS 4 & PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 6). I'm looking for something that can easily handle these two programs without seizing / slowing down when project become complex.

At the moment I have 3 PCs on the shortlist. All have 500GB hard disk and 4 GB RAM. All will run on Vista Home Premium 32 bit (I don't believe programs above are compatible with 64 bit.)

The PCs differ in:

PC 1.

CPU: Athlon 64 X2 6000+ 3.0 GHz

Graphics: Ati Radeon HD 2600 (256 MB).

PC 2

CPU: Intel Core 2 quad-core Q6600 2.40 GHz

Graphics: Nvidia GeForce 8600 GT (512 MB).

PC 3

As PC 2 but graphics is a Nvidia GeForce 9300 (256mb)

There is little difference in price.

My main question, which of these PCs would be the better buy: is it better to have a faster dual core or a slower quad? Quads certainly seem to feature more on the market and I wouldn't want to get something already out of date.

Also how important is the graphics card for these type of software? I am not interested in gaming but am interested in the more advanced features of photo & video editing.

Thanks in advance

Firstly PLEASE don't misunderstand q as trying to provoke an argument, as I'm just curious to understand why without putting pressure.

I exclusively breastfed for 1st 3 mths then have mixed fed since (due to baby's v slow weight gain) so have experience in both.

But... it seems that many people now are bottlefeeding from start and I would really like to know what stopped you wanting to breastfeed. In my opinion (again not lecturing - got my own share of that when started mixing), breast has more pros (health of baby, deeper bonding, on tap, delayed period, free compared to expensive formula) and few cons (probs in public, delayed dieting).

As so many of you are doing it, there must be something I'm not getting. Also, would you have considered mixed as I have done? (may be lucky but baby has had no probs switching)