The technology, she hates me
Jun. 4th, 2007 11:21 pmWhy is it that when you want to print something "real quick", it never works that way? While my printer woes do not in any way compare to those of ![[profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
kass_rants, I have been ready to drop-kick my printer for the last 20 minutes or so. I had anticipated a bit of ramp-up since it was to be my first try at printing from NeoOffice. I did not expect to come and find the printer trying to tell me that a black cartridge that clearly has ink in it is empty. (The yellow really was empty. Next time I buy a printer I'm making sure it's one that defaults to b&w if the color cartridges are out rather than just refusing to print.) But I decided to play along and feed it a new cartridge. No dice. Ratbastard. I eventually had to hold its hand through the "new cartridge" process via the ass-kicking software. And now I have to go find a ziplock to put this other black cartridge in to save for next time I run out of black ink. Our old Lexmark printer only took one cartridge (K or CMY but not both) and had a nifty little holder on the back that would seal off the one you weren't using so it wouldn't dry out. Too bad the printer sucked in every way but that one.
AND NeoOffice has eaten my notes pages. Both it and PP will show me the notes but not the slides that go with them - just a blank frame where the slide should go. I am not amused. Also, I am printing from PP. Not being able to print presentation notes is a deal-breaker for me.
kass_rants, I have been ready to drop-kick my printer for the last 20 minutes or so. I had anticipated a bit of ramp-up since it was to be my first try at printing from NeoOffice. I did not expect to come and find the printer trying to tell me that a black cartridge that clearly has ink in it is empty. (The yellow really was empty. Next time I buy a printer I'm making sure it's one that defaults to b&w if the color cartridges are out rather than just refusing to print.) But I decided to play along and feed it a new cartridge. No dice. Ratbastard. I eventually had to hold its hand through the "new cartridge" process via the ass-kicking software. And now I have to go find a ziplock to put this other black cartridge in to save for next time I run out of black ink. Our old Lexmark printer only took one cartridge (K or CMY but not both) and had a nifty little holder on the back that would seal off the one you weren't using so it wouldn't dry out. Too bad the printer sucked in every way but that one.AND NeoOffice has eaten my notes pages. Both it and PP will show me the notes but not the slides that go with them - just a blank frame where the slide should go. I am not amused. Also, I am printing from PP. Not being able to print presentation notes is a deal-breaker for me.
