Monday 22 September 2008 - You Just Can't Reason With a Printer
All I really wanted to do was to print up my kids' checklists for tomorrow and a scavenger hunt checklist for this week's Kids' Club.
But no. "I'm sorry," says my color laserjet printer. "I told you on Friday that I will not print anything for you until you replace the magenta ink cartridge, and I meant it."
Did I mention that the things I want to print today are black and white documents? I don't need magenta ink.
"That doesn't matter," says the insufferably rigid printer. "Rules is rules. You need to replace the magenta ink cartridge before I print."
Never mind the fact that I don't keep spare magenta ink cartridges laying around and that Office Max is 7 miles away and closed at the moment.
Electronic devices can be so unreasonable.
Fortunately, I have a backup. My good old trusty 3-in-one inkjet is not a legalist. It will print whether it has its quota of magenta ink or not. It may not be happy about it, but it will still print.
Fast, Crisp, and Finicky, or Slow, Fuzzyish, and Willing. Tonight I'll take the latter, thank you very much. So ppptttthhhh on Magenta Boy.
You may be wondering what the point is here. There is none. The title popped into my head as I was arguing with my printer, so I had to write a post for it.
Too bad my modem is not as nitpicky as my printer. "I'm sorry," it could say. "I told you before that I refuse to grant you late-night blog access until you replace your brain, and I meant it." Then you would have been spared the pain of reading this pointless post.
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My printer can be quite annoying at times too. :oP
Love, Alyssa