My ice cream budget wouldn't buy much. I pay either $7.98 or $5.98 for two containers - half gallon or three pints. It's not like always have it available, unfortunately.

I've given up on a microwave temporarily. I see the ones that are reported to be very reliable, but finding a model that has been reviewed is almost impossible because they introduce new models too often. Then there is the majority of brands that are in the "unreliable" category. IN the past, I just picked one out and brought it home. Maybe reading reviews isn't such a good idea. They all heat food, right?

Our microwaves last five or six years, which isn't great, considering the cost. Our current Farberware doesn't want to stop running, so it's time for a new one. The choices are overwhelming, and most companies offer too many models, so it's hard to find a review of one that's actually available. I'll read reviews of a recommended model, but that model is no longer available. Between the testing and the publishing, the manufacturer changed models. Is a $500 KitchenAid better than a $70 Comfee? I want one with 1000W, 1.1 Cu ft, 12" turntable. Breville seems to be the best brand, but it's not easy to find at reasonable prices.

Well, I've decided that I can't buy a microwave. They're either not reliable, don't heat well, or are too expensive. I'll just have to continue eating ice cream.

https://www.consumerreports.org/appliances/microwave-ovens/toshiba-ml2-em31pass/m402662/

As a side note, most microwaves are made in a single factory in China. "The Midea Group has manufactured the majority of countertop microwave ovens sold in the United States since 2020."

The wireless printing with the ET-2800 is rather easy after it is set up. The wi-fi wireless connection can be done right from the wi-fi in the printer, no need for a separate router.
That removes the need to try to do everything via the tiny, tiny screen on the printer. The phone or tablet screen makes a good control screen, and using the Epson Smart Panel app, it has more refined selections available than the tiny screen on the printer unit.
The processing of the photo files may need some slight adjustments to get the prints to look right......so they are not muddy, or too dark, or too magenta, or too blue, or....you get the idea.

So, this is coming from a picture-taker novice, a printer user novice....generally, just a novice.
It's possible to do all the interface connections, set up and operations via wireless.

A friend is about 72, and I don't think she's ever had a printer. She uses the library or Staples for any printing. Although she has a laptop, she uses her phone almost exclusively. She asked me for advice about buying a printer.

Printers are great, but since they were invented by the Devil, they can torment the user. I'm going to recommend an Epson Ink Tank and suggest she go through the wireless printing setup, something I've never done. I have enough trouble with printers without worrying about getting them to work with Wi-Fi. I'm also going to give her the choice of a cheap ink cartridge printer because I don't think she'll do much printing. I dread the phone calls and emails when her printer doesn't work right. 🙄

EDITED: I recommended to new version of my Epson ET-2760. It's the ET-2800 for $200. Mine has printed thousands of copies on the original ink - since 2020.

Some will remember that I recently had a problem with my Microwave oven, after burning another one up.
My neighbor was busy helping his daughter off in another town (moving, I think) and the next night after he got home, he came and looked at it, couldn't find anything wrong with it. Next day, the lights started flickering and the light in my computer room made a LOUD pop and blew out. Kitchen lights went out too. I went out to check the breaker and it was tripped. When I reset it, the breaker popped and everything blew out. The next day, it was already getting dark but he came and checked everything. He didn't find anything in the dark. No electricity for 2 days. He came back to check something outside and said Call Alabama Power. When I called them, he took the phone and told them the service entry cable was broken, hanging by a very thing string and had already been spliced 3 times...I needed a new line run. That fixed some of it but then he found that the breaker to the kitchen was bad and replaced it. Before, the microwave smoked after 30 seconds. I finally tried it again this morning and it didn't smoke.
None of it makes sense to me but it's not supposed to me. I ever really wanted to know anything about electricity. Scares me to death!!!!
Just though I'd let you all know the outcome.
Thank you all for your suggestions and efforts to help. Very much appreciated.

Thanks Alien. The forum cops get their panties bunched up over some really strange issues.

Occasionally they go nutz because a mistake is made and someone posts by mistake a photo gallery post in the Main Photography section. They make a big deal out of it because they are full of themselves and enjoy bullying people over nothing much.

In this case, it seems pretty clear to me my post was in the correct section, and those supposedly getting all recycled over it are just a few that have not been able to bully me in the past, and it's really not related to the subject matter at all and likely just a personal problem with them. I'm rather certain one of them complained to
Admin. about it, because it was moved, but it's as you say, a moot point.

We had a specially made maple wood plaque made for a photo , the wood maker suggests an epoxy to adhere the photo to the plaque, I am not familiar with any expoxy, these 2 were suggested, any recommendations? I was going to have Staples print the 8x11 photo on glossy paper, is there any special paper I should use instead.

The plank/photo will then be coated with a clear epoxy resin.

He is suggesting an epoxy product called Promise TableTop Epoxy Resin.
ArtResin is another brand that the web suggests for glossy printed photos.