unlike mostly the success stories, this is about a diy FAILURE...my failure.
thought of posting this later after getting my head together, but got some time now and here it goes...
we have 2 printers. one a monochrome, high-speed laser used almost exclusively by ms python for her business and an inkjet el cheapo used by me occasionally and by our kids. not that we are cut off the laser speedo, but that's the layof the land here.
long story short, i needed yesterday to print the amazon return label to find out to my irritation that the ink jet was out of a yellow ink. the display said 'replace the Y cartridge'. it was not the 1st occasion like this, but it was the 1st time i had no spare Y cartridges. what the fork, i thought, and decided to engage the laser for a one-page B&W job.
turns out, it was also out of a toner (sure ms python neglected it) but she is in switzerland now and i had no way of getting the help nor did i find the spare toner.
aha, i thought, there must be a work around to print B&W even if a Y cart was out. turns out, it was a plain stupidity gravely underestimating the corporate drive to force sales a user does not need....
i still tried. google suggested all sorts of things. from resetting the cart chip by a special gadget i dont have, to fiddling with the printer settings to physically swapping the chips on the cartridges...nothing worked. the stupid (or perhaps smart ?) epson loaded with 3 good cartridges out of 4, including the full black ink cart, refused and refused....
i was mad at the creepy business practice, at myself, at ms python...
long story short, i recalled i can print at a local library a block away. i did that. then, i ordered more cartridges from amazon. and finally i decided (for the 1st time) to order the toner for the wife's laser printer too...
i failed at diy, but thankfully amazon made my pain very short lived :redface:
thought of posting this later after getting my head together, but got some time now and here it goes...
we have 2 printers. one a monochrome, high-speed laser used almost exclusively by ms python for her business and an inkjet el cheapo used by me occasionally and by our kids. not that we are cut off the laser speedo, but that's the layof the land here.
long story short, i needed yesterday to print the amazon return label to find out to my irritation that the ink jet was out of a yellow ink. the display said 'replace the Y cartridge'. it was not the 1st occasion like this, but it was the 1st time i had no spare Y cartridges. what the fork, i thought, and decided to engage the laser for a one-page B&W job.
turns out, it was also out of a toner (sure ms python neglected it) but she is in switzerland now and i had no way of getting the help nor did i find the spare toner.
aha, i thought, there must be a work around to print B&W even if a Y cart was out. turns out, it was a plain stupidity gravely underestimating the corporate drive to force sales a user does not need....
i still tried. google suggested all sorts of things. from resetting the cart chip by a special gadget i dont have, to fiddling with the printer settings to physically swapping the chips on the cartridges...nothing worked. the stupid (or perhaps smart ?) epson loaded with 3 good cartridges out of 4, including the full black ink cart, refused and refused....
i was mad at the creepy business practice, at myself, at ms python...
long story short, i recalled i can print at a local library a block away. i did that. then, i ordered more cartridges from amazon. and finally i decided (for the 1st time) to order the toner for the wife's laser printer too...
i failed at diy, but thankfully amazon made my pain very short lived :redface: