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And no tabs will be prescribed
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Bastards! Sounds Fn unfair to me. 
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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I've been keeping tabs on you and it's the same Alt story as usual.
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Be nice. Why don't you give ole' Griff a break?
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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This is our way of underscoring that he can feel at Home, hear.
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At least you were able to Escape.
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You know what they say, when you lose Alt Control, Delete!
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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Capital, capital! I rest my case.
/ravi
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Did they at least pick up the tab for your going away lunch?
Socialism is the Axe Body Spray of political ideologies: It never does what it claims to do, but people too young to know better keep buying it anyway. (Glenn Reynolds)
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Yep! It's not a Pause, it's the End - I've gone Home for good!
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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... I've just bought a colour laser.
Every time I try to use it, the heads are dry - I must have poured more ink through it cleaning the heads and trying to get all jest working than actually went on paper where I wanted.
And now to cap it all, it's randomly spraying cyan on every print (even monochrome) and not printing it on the damn page where I want it.
Probably my own fault - I don't print often enough - but sod it, lasers don't have that problem (and the "starter toner" pack should last me a few years at the rate I print anyway 700 pages K and 500 CYM). I haven't bought a new ream of paper in three years and there is a good half of it left!
Anyone here found inkjets as much of a hassle as I have?
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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You should be able to remove the heads and soak them in some cleaning stuff (lots of google hits on what to do and how to do it). I also wrote this article:
Keep Your InkJet Print Head Clean[^]
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Hardware problem I think - even if you are printing white space it's spraying a fine cyan background splatter. At a guess the cyan channel is getting a low induced or leaked voltage from the others and it's enough to cause nano-droplet ejection.
It's an Epson, so it's a shared wall piezo channel for each head and droplet, and they can get weird when they start to fail - I used to design industrial inkjet printers using SW PZT and they are funny little buggers.
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I used to be annoyed at HP for having the heads built into the cartridge. I refill* them and they last a good long time, but none the less, it's a lot of money for two-fingers of ink.
So I hand one with cheap cartridges (Brother) and a built-in head. Great - until the head died. Then I discovered how much it cost to replace . . . HP isn't so bad, after all.
I do the 90% isopropyl alcohol to clean them if they get a bit lame from lack-of-use, but buy and large, it works out even, either way (and probably designed to, maybe include laserjets in that equation, as well).
Almost all my personal printing is done to a .pdf file - harder to lose/spill coffee on. Never out of ink.
* Mrs. Wife thought it would make a good xerox machine. Filling black, myself, cost about $US 1.50 and that made it pretty thrifty - although those days have thankfully passed.
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Wow! That article you wrote was back in 1809, oh sorry, 2009. 
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i switched to laser many years ago when I figured the reason inkjets were so cheap is because the cartridges were so expensive and as you say if you don't use them very often they are a PITA.
I may not be that good looking, or athletic, or funny, or talented, or smart
I forgot where I was going with this but I do know I love bacon!
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OriginalGriff wrote: at the rate I print
That's what kids for - keeping the printer on its toes...
"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge". Stephen Hawking, 1942- 2018
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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote: That's what kids for - keeping the printer on its toes...
Haha! That's actually very true. When the kids were young they printed way too much. 
But the printer always worked.
Now, printer is used about twice a year and doesn't work. 
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My office "upgraded" to a new combo colour office laser/fax/scanner/coffee maker - ok maybe no coffee, but it seemed to do everything.
Anyway, they were literally about to throw the old HP 2600n colour laser away! I said, "Can I have it?" and they were only too pleased to be rid of it. They even gave me a couple of replacement cartridges (yellow and magenta) that were lying around on top of a cupboard for the last two or three years.
This was three years ago and it is still going strong. Fast, clear printing at 600dpi, strong, well saturated colour when I want it, wonderfully crisp black text. It will print on almost any kind of paper and I have had only one paper-jam in those three plus years. For home users with minimal printing to do it is great - it doesn't dry up, there are no heads to clean and I only just put the replacement yellow cartridge in a month ago.
It powers itself down on standby - for days on end sometimes - and whips back up and is ready to print in just a few seconds when I need it. It just sits, eagerly, on the network and my whole household use it for very occasional printing. A heavy electrical user, it isn't. Maybe if it was printing all day I would notice it, but the way I am using it, nah!
My three ink-jet printers are rotting on a shelf in the basement (I never throw anything away) and are probably all dried up and useless by now. 
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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That's what I figured. Toner may be expensive, but not when you add up the wasted expensive photo paper and dried up cartridges I got through.
So I go to print the 2018 Christmas card sample for Herself's approval and ... it's missing green on the tree, and looks total cr@p.
Wednesday. New one arriving Wednesday.
But ... bugger it I'll need a new scanner when I bin the printer. That'll wait til the new year, I don't need it right now.
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Don't bin the printer - just use it as a dedicated scanner.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Forogar wrote: just use it as a dedicated scanner.
I do it
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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