My Brother printer is big and bulky so I don't keep it on the desktop and have to go to the trouble of carrying it to the computer and hooking it up each time there's something to print. Today after doing all that the son of bitch wouldn't print, telling me that it was out of ink. I had just replaced the black ink cartridge so this was a surprise to me. I took the cartridge out and it seemed to have lots of ink so I put it back in and still got the message that there was no ink! What the fuck, I decided to put in another new cartridge and still got the message that it was out of ink.
It turned out that the "yellow ink" cartridge was empty and the son of a bitch wouldn't print until the yellow ink was replaced. The goddamned thing wouldn't do anything without new yellow ink even though I just wanted to print a black and white document. I replaced the black cartridge for nothing, a waste of money!
After a few minutes of checking on-line I got lucky and found the solution. I had to remove the yellow cartridge and put a piece of electrical tape over the clear window on the cartridge to fool the printer into thinking there was ink in the yellow cartridge. The good news is it worked, the bad news is I replaced a black cartridge for nothing. And to add insult to injury, my hands are covered in black ink!
All this happened because I got fucked over by a bank. I ended up telling the bank rep to go fuck himself and decided to open an account at a different bank. This entailed me signing some documents so I had to print, sign, scan and email all the shit back to the new bank. An exercise in frustration! So at this point, I hate banks and Brother printers.
I'm not too crazy about dentists these days either but that's a story for a different day.
K.D. and Tony are the tonic to sooth my tortured soul.
Nice music choice. Unexpected. I don't use our fancy Brother printer anymore. I got a cheap Cannon printer that is simple and works great. Thanks for the tip on the ink thing. Good to know.
ReplyDeletemy brother wasn't expensive. the printing is a pain in the ass but it scans very well.
DeleteWell I'm surprised you don't have a laser printer - toner cartridges last longer. Do you need to make colour copies of anything?
ReplyDeletethe main reason i picked up the printer was for the scanner. the printing part was just an unlucky accident. there's a laser printer sitting around but i've just never got around to figuring it out.
DeleteI haven't printed anything for years.
ReplyDeletea king should at least print out his edicts and decrees.
DeleteI don't own a printer and the little printing I do. I just go to the library and use there. It just donation.
ReplyDeleteWell coming up the company wants me to take an one line class and print off the items saying I complete the call.
Coffee is on
the library would be a good option for me in the good weather but i'm getting too soft for cold rainy rides.
DeleteMoving the printer to the computer seems a real pain in the posterior. Maybe if you feel like spending a few bucks on a new one, get a wifi type (they are cheap now too). Might be worth considering if the Brother is going to be cantankerous. Or the library like others suggested. I think if I carted a printer around and then it did not work, I'd want to take a hammer to the damn thing.
ReplyDeleteit's almost new and is wi-fi capable but i'm hard wired to be hard wired.
DeleteI’m sorry about the printer, but am glad to know what you did so I too can do it sometimes.
ReplyDeleteAs for banks, I haven’t used them for years because credit unions are run ethically, whereas the only purpose that banks have is making money without any concern whatsoever for ethics, and this has led me to despise them, and I mean completely despise them. The thing is that the employees whom you see and who answer the phone aren’t the people who are responsible for the bank’s policies. Of course, they do make the choice to work for a business that they know is unethical.
Damn it. I just wrote the best comment ever. Then I hit the wrong button and now my comment is lost forever. Sorry Mr. Rosewater. I have failed you once again. I will put a new black ink cartridge in my printer as punishment.
ReplyDelete"Sorry Mr. Rosewater. I have failed you once again."
DeleteOh, god, not again! Do you not know what he did to his last follower who consistently failed him?
thank you for your continued support mr shife, it's the thought that counts.
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