*rage*

[sarahmichelef]

I bought a new black cartridge for my printer the other day - I've been buying Office Depot brand cartridges (I have an Epson printer in part BECASUE they license generic cartridges). Anyway, I popped the new cartridge in, printed my lecture notes for Thursday's class, and turned off the printer. La-dee-da.

Today, I started up the printer with the intention of printing out some dissertation-related reading notes. It's telling me there's an error with the cartridge. Nothing I do fixes this - I've checked the thing over, reseated it several times, etc. Nada. This isn't the first time I've had this problem with the Office Depot cartridges, either - it happened once before with a color cartridge, only that one NEVER worked.

OK, WTF? NOW there's no error light and it's working fine. It hates me, it does.

That's it. From now on I'm buying my in from the Laser Monks.

Comments

[greyhame.livejournal.com]

1) the LaserMonks are awesome.
2) switching to laser printer highly recommended. I'm never going back to inkjet.

[alphasarah.livejournal.com]

I haven't looked at prices lately, but last I did, there weren't any color laser printers in what I considered a reasonable price range. If I was shopping for just a b&w printer, I'd totally go low-end laser. But I need color. Also a scanner/photocopier, hence the Epson all-in-one. Notwithstanding the fact that it was a gift, it's paid for itself just in saved trips to school or the copyshop for small photocopying jobs.

[greyhame.livejournal.com]

Ah, I didn't realize color was a requirement. I never need anything other than B&W, and I love my Brother HL-1440.

[baronessmartha.livejournal.com]

reboot! reboot!

[alphasarah.livejournal.com]

I did. A bajillion times.