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Simple solution: pick up your printer and place it on your desk. Unplug it from the mains supply, then open it. Remove the Black cartridge and turn it upside down.
Then hurl the printer out the window and buy a laser ... 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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I have followed the first N steps & my basement window is broken & my printer is in pieces on the front lawn.
I have obtained a laser (got it from the cat). Accidentally shined it in my eyes so I cannot follow further steps. 
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That is part of the plan.
If you can't see, you don't need a printer.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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A good laugh cures most problems. Years ago, I bought a multi-color Brother laser printer. Used it a couple of times back then and have never used it since. The Toner was hideously expensive BWT.
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The solution is don't buy printers that use a multi-color ink cartridge. Yes, the printers will be more expensive but the lower ink costs, especially for heavy printer users, will cover it.
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You're right.
Mine is a WF 2760 & I bought it explicitly because it uses separate ink cartridges for all 4 colors (black, yellow, cyan, magenta).
You can replace any one that runs low without the others buggering up.
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Your only missing the Black...
Just print on Black Epson Paper... You'll be fine...
ROTFLMAO 
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I plan to add logging into my Windows Form application.
NLog is still looking good for me in my case.
are there any people still using it from codeproject community?
diligent hands rule....
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... this guy:
hehe[^]
Yeah that's what I'm talking about ... hehe ... use'n it. Awright!(sniff)
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thanks for this link!
diligent hands rule....
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We are using Log4Net, which I'm not very fond of, never tried NLog but it seems a better choice.
See overview here: best-net-logging-frameworks[^]
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your input is always insightful for me.
I used this post as a jump start.
diligent hands rule....
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I use nlog - I prefer it to log4net. It's very easily configured, and comes with pre-canned formatters for most situations that you can think of.
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The better question is, should I do logging? Seriously. I'm not being facetious. Logging sounds great until, as I've always experienced, there are reams of output to wade through and nobody bothers and they even forget there's logging going on.
What is it you need to log, and when exactly does it need to be logged?
Now granted, years ago my team added logging to every user action (this was a DOS desktop app at that) which was enabled in "QA" mode. We logged the tester's activity, we were able to play it back, and when they said "I did x, y, and z" we could look at the log and say, "no, you did x, A and z" and they were stunned. So that kind of logging was quite useful! 
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I think logging exceptions and/or unexpected errors is a must, especially for debugging purposes.
I am not really into informational logging in a Prod environment; maybe, in dev, but not prod.
we have a pageview table that stores all the page view stuff for troubleshooting and metrics for business team.
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Slacker007 wrote: I think logging exceptions and/or unexpected errors is a must, especially for debugging purposes.
Agreed. I've actually become rather brutal about it - I send an email to myself when something critical blows up. I have a few Outlook rules as a result.
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your question is great: my first step is to log some data files that are empty. I downloaded these kinds of files using web API.
I need to know what kind of files are empty.
later on I will go deeper to record exceptions.
diligent hands rule....
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Generally it is useful to use logging on different levels and enable/disable the levels as needed. There might be no need to see any informational messages in certain applications until there is a certain error that you want to inspect. In other cases it might be useful to see verbose things like "user x did action y" all the time. As a rule of thumb I would only log things to which I had a specific use-case in mind or things I knew from experience that they help down the line.
Regarding if logging should be done in general: Yes, please. As someone who writes and uses tools that go through logs all the time I am very grateful for applications that log well - meaning not too much, but at least all errors and warnings.
If you use Windows then you could think about writing events to an eventlog instead of writing text files tho.
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great sharing.
diligent hands rule....
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Having supported numerous systems, I can tell you that Logging Matters.
And with current day abilities to create date/time files, and delete files over 7 days old, etc.
I am fine.
The one issue we ran into was needing INSANE levels of logging to track down a DEEP bug.
7 Days worth of this would overwhelm ANY system. (Think of it as turning on Kernel Debugging)
So, we implemented an in-memory circular log for that level of debugging, and NEVER wrote it to disk,
until an exception occurred. So, we had all of our "good logging", and then we had an INSANE level,
that would usually cover the last couple of minutes before an exception. (to be clear, we trapped the exception,
and added that logging information to the output, along with a stack trace).
Within a few days we had a rare problem isolated (something that happened about every 10,000 sessions).
Yes, we need logging. But be careful, I've seen people logging DB connection credentials! OUCH!
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I still use it - can't see a reason not to
"Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Nop, I always roll my own.
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just write message into a text file?
it turns out my case is simple. I just dump my messages into a text file, which file name is with timestamp.
diligent hands rule....
modified 23-Mar-22 13:21pm.
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