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I have easily spent a thousand dollars over the last six years or so on printers -- not ink, that's a whole other fiasco -- and I never ever have a working printer. And whatever is wrong with the printer can never just be fixed.
The last printer had a phantom paper jam. No paper was acutally jammed but I couldn't convince the printer of this fact and the manufacturer had no advice.
This one simply doesn't print. As far as I can tell, the printer thinks it's in fine condition: the computer thinks it's in fine condition: the USB connection appears to be in order . . . it just doesn't print. Not from Open Office, not from Word Perfect, not from Notepad, and not from a command prompt, and not from Windows troubleshooting. It will print a nozzle check. I have gone through the troubleshooting steps in Windows and from the manufacturer's website. I am currently uninstalling the printer so I can re-install it. After that I guess I have to go crying to the manufacturer's phone help, at which point. . . I don't know. There's not much support for the model.
I hate the idea of giving up on having my own printer and taking files to a copy shop for printing, but I may have to. Too bad Kinko's, the big, well-equipped one down the street, closed.
On another front, I have decided to write other things for about a week and then go on a revision blitz for the not-Poland story before continuing with the draft, because the things I need to do to the story are giving me the trots, I can't sit and write the further stuff until I get that other stuff fixed.
On yet another front: spring blossoms scented the air when I rode over to the Women's Center this evening to teach moms in recovery how to do fingerplays with their babies. February's almost over, and it hasn't been very winter-like lately, but I haven't been heavily impressed with spring events either. The almond tree is blooming, though.
edit: . . . and the uninstall-reinstall did the trick. But why, for the love of all things real and beautiful, did I have to do this? Why don't things just work?
The last printer had a phantom paper jam. No paper was acutally jammed but I couldn't convince the printer of this fact and the manufacturer had no advice.
This one simply doesn't print. As far as I can tell, the printer thinks it's in fine condition: the computer thinks it's in fine condition: the USB connection appears to be in order . . . it just doesn't print. Not from Open Office, not from Word Perfect, not from Notepad, and not from a command prompt, and not from Windows troubleshooting. It will print a nozzle check. I have gone through the troubleshooting steps in Windows and from the manufacturer's website. I am currently uninstalling the printer so I can re-install it. After that I guess I have to go crying to the manufacturer's phone help, at which point. . . I don't know. There's not much support for the model.
I hate the idea of giving up on having my own printer and taking files to a copy shop for printing, but I may have to. Too bad Kinko's, the big, well-equipped one down the street, closed.
On another front, I have decided to write other things for about a week and then go on a revision blitz for the not-Poland story before continuing with the draft, because the things I need to do to the story are giving me the trots, I can't sit and write the further stuff until I get that other stuff fixed.
On yet another front: spring blossoms scented the air when I rode over to the Women's Center this evening to teach moms in recovery how to do fingerplays with their babies. February's almost over, and it hasn't been very winter-like lately, but I haven't been heavily impressed with spring events either. The almond tree is blooming, though.
edit: . . . and the uninstall-reinstall did the trick. But why, for the love of all things real and beautiful, did I have to do this? Why don't things just work?