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desperanceApparently, I am mighty. This is good to know.
I have a contract that my agent sent me electronically, with a request to print out, sign and return. No problem, quoth I.
Instructed the printer to do this thing, but the printer said no, shan't, I wants more ink, I haz none.
Okey-doke. I have toner cartridges by the score. (Well, not quite - but I have spares for all the colours that I never use. And, blessedly, spare black as well.) (Every now and then I think "what I should do, I should print stuff out in whatever-shade-of-splurge-it-is that would use equal quantities of all the colours that are not black; it'd be dark enough to use, and save replacing the black again." But of course I don't know what colour I would need to ask my printer for...?)
So. It's a familiar routine: press the right buttons in the right order, open the printer, unlock the cartridge, slide--
Old cartridge won't slide out.
I heave and twist and manipulate. Old cartridge still won't slide out.
Start everything again. Still won't shift.
Weep. Struggle.
Go to internets.
Internets say, "take drum out of printer-top, close front door, turn cartridges by hand until black is at top, remove..."
So I do that, and, y'know? It works. So actually the internet is mighty, but I do kinda feel like I have committed Engineering today. Got my hands dirty. (In a very literal sense, that last. Toner, toner everywhere...)
In other news, Amazon is advising me - on the basis of my previous choices - that I might care to buy a copy of Dragon in Chains by Daniel Fox. Seriously, UK folks - it's 20% off at the moment, £7.95. If you want to take advantage, here's a link.
I have a contract that my agent sent me electronically, with a request to print out, sign and return. No problem, quoth I.
Instructed the printer to do this thing, but the printer said no, shan't, I wants more ink, I haz none.
Okey-doke. I have toner cartridges by the score. (Well, not quite - but I have spares for all the colours that I never use. And, blessedly, spare black as well.) (Every now and then I think "what I should do, I should print stuff out in whatever-shade-of-splurge-it-is that would use equal quantities of all the colours that are not black; it'd be dark enough to use, and save replacing the black again." But of course I don't know what colour I would need to ask my printer for...?)
So. It's a familiar routine: press the right buttons in the right order, open the printer, unlock the cartridge, slide--
Old cartridge won't slide out.
I heave and twist and manipulate. Old cartridge still won't slide out.
Start everything again. Still won't shift.
Weep. Struggle.
Go to internets.
Internets say, "take drum out of printer-top, close front door, turn cartridges by hand until black is at top, remove..."
So I do that, and, y'know? It works. So actually the internet is mighty, but I do kinda feel like I have committed Engineering today. Got my hands dirty. (In a very literal sense, that last. Toner, toner everywhere...)
In other news, Amazon is advising me - on the basis of my previous choices - that I might care to buy a copy of Dragon in Chains by Daniel Fox. Seriously, UK folks - it's 20% off at the moment, £7.95. If you want to take advantage, here's a link.