Spilled ink.
4/13/06 5:44 am.
47º F, Sun is a-coming, W wind 5 mph.
Good morning,
What a beautiful day yesterday - once the rain stopped. We really got dumped on. Not too sure how much rain we did get, but I know it was well over 1". There is water everywhere. Hope it runs off or sinks in quickly. We had a high temperature yesterday of 72º F yesterday afternoon. The air feels much drier this morning, but the weatherman is talking of possible showers late this afternoon. Hope they are very light, as predicted, since we have a lot of outside stuff to do.
Now that we have Margriet’s computer back on line, the printer decided to die finally. While paying a couple of bills yesterday, I started to print out the envelops, but the printer would not work. At first it said there was a paper jam, but that wasn’t the case. Even took the printer partially apart to make sure and cleaned it out. No luck. Afterwards it told me one ink tank was empty. That also wasn’t the case and I could not even access the cleaning maintenance mode. The printer just sat there and blinked it’s indicator lights at me.
I really like the printer (when it works) and I think I have used it for about 5 years now. Needing to pay bills and taxes, very soon, we can’t really do without a printer for very long. So ......... we made a hasty trip to pick up another one. I did some quick research online, hoping to find another Canon with separated ink tanks, but the only available were way out of our price range, so settled for an HP printer. This has two tanks, one black and one color cartridge, but they are also smaller than the Canon tanks. Probably will be spending more in the long run. The new one took a couple of hours to set up and hook up. The big problem was to insert the tanks! The directions, hard copy and online, showed it to be a simple process. It is - after I figured out the tanks go into the carriage, rather than the spot shown on the printer. Now where in the directions does it show or tell about moving the carriage into position to insert the tanks! The symbols on the printer were located in a place that placing the tanks there made no sense to me at all. Once I found the carriage, hidden unless moved, everything made much more sense - and worked.
I did have to chuckle at where the printer and accessories were manufactured. The printer was built in Singapore, the black ink tank in Ireland, the color cartridge in Thailand (that surprised me), the set-up disk in the U.S., and the instruction manual (Reference Guide) is written in English, French, and Spanish! It would not surprise me if the box it came in was made in China. No wonder I had a hard time getting the ink in!
The new printer is a bit smaller, front to back, but the paper loads from the front rather than the upper back of the Canon. That makes for a smaller foot print on the desk and should be some easier to use. It does hold less paper, but that is not necessarily a bad thing. I recycle one sided paper a lot, so really don’t put that much into the printer in the first place. So far I have only run some test pages through it to align everything. It works! This printer is also much more friendly to making photos, with connections to directly connect the camera to it. It also coordinates with the scanner, also HP, thanx to some cool software from HP which makes the two work almost as one piece of equipment. Like that, at least before using the features yet.
After I finish paying the bills and getting the taxes in, the next adventure on this machine is to get the DVD working correctly. I have a feeling that when the hard-drive died a few months ago, there were some things not reinstalled again. Will have to look into that and see what happens. Probably some more frustration at hand.
Tonight is Maundy Thursday and we have a church service tonight. Also tomorrow night. I am the reader tonight and Margriet is tomorrow night. Margriet also has to make some snacks for after the service on Sunday. It is stunning to see the growth that Margriet has accomplished since I have know her. She has moved from refusing to speak/read out loud for anyone to now being able to read and give a sermon before a large group. Not too many folks can or have done that. She has grown in so many ways it is hard to keep track of them. Cool!
Time to get the day a-going. Hopefully some of yesterday’s agenda will get finished.
In Christ My Saviour,
Chris <><
47º F, Sun is a-coming, W wind 5 mph.
Good morning,
What a beautiful day yesterday - once the rain stopped. We really got dumped on. Not too sure how much rain we did get, but I know it was well over 1". There is water everywhere. Hope it runs off or sinks in quickly. We had a high temperature yesterday of 72º F yesterday afternoon. The air feels much drier this morning, but the weatherman is talking of possible showers late this afternoon. Hope they are very light, as predicted, since we have a lot of outside stuff to do.
Now that we have Margriet’s computer back on line, the printer decided to die finally. While paying a couple of bills yesterday, I started to print out the envelops, but the printer would not work. At first it said there was a paper jam, but that wasn’t the case. Even took the printer partially apart to make sure and cleaned it out. No luck. Afterwards it told me one ink tank was empty. That also wasn’t the case and I could not even access the cleaning maintenance mode. The printer just sat there and blinked it’s indicator lights at me.
I really like the printer (when it works) and I think I have used it for about 5 years now. Needing to pay bills and taxes, very soon, we can’t really do without a printer for very long. So ......... we made a hasty trip to pick up another one. I did some quick research online, hoping to find another Canon with separated ink tanks, but the only available were way out of our price range, so settled for an HP printer. This has two tanks, one black and one color cartridge, but they are also smaller than the Canon tanks. Probably will be spending more in the long run. The new one took a couple of hours to set up and hook up. The big problem was to insert the tanks! The directions, hard copy and online, showed it to be a simple process. It is - after I figured out the tanks go into the carriage, rather than the spot shown on the printer. Now where in the directions does it show or tell about moving the carriage into position to insert the tanks! The symbols on the printer were located in a place that placing the tanks there made no sense to me at all. Once I found the carriage, hidden unless moved, everything made much more sense - and worked.
I did have to chuckle at where the printer and accessories were manufactured. The printer was built in Singapore, the black ink tank in Ireland, the color cartridge in Thailand (that surprised me), the set-up disk in the U.S., and the instruction manual (Reference Guide) is written in English, French, and Spanish! It would not surprise me if the box it came in was made in China. No wonder I had a hard time getting the ink in!
The new printer is a bit smaller, front to back, but the paper loads from the front rather than the upper back of the Canon. That makes for a smaller foot print on the desk and should be some easier to use. It does hold less paper, but that is not necessarily a bad thing. I recycle one sided paper a lot, so really don’t put that much into the printer in the first place. So far I have only run some test pages through it to align everything. It works! This printer is also much more friendly to making photos, with connections to directly connect the camera to it. It also coordinates with the scanner, also HP, thanx to some cool software from HP which makes the two work almost as one piece of equipment. Like that, at least before using the features yet.
After I finish paying the bills and getting the taxes in, the next adventure on this machine is to get the DVD working correctly. I have a feeling that when the hard-drive died a few months ago, there were some things not reinstalled again. Will have to look into that and see what happens. Probably some more frustration at hand.
Tonight is Maundy Thursday and we have a church service tonight. Also tomorrow night. I am the reader tonight and Margriet is tomorrow night. Margriet also has to make some snacks for after the service on Sunday. It is stunning to see the growth that Margriet has accomplished since I have know her. She has moved from refusing to speak/read out loud for anyone to now being able to read and give a sermon before a large group. Not too many folks can or have done that. She has grown in so many ways it is hard to keep track of them. Cool!
Time to get the day a-going. Hopefully some of yesterday’s agenda will get finished.
In Christ My Saviour,
Chris <><
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