Don't you absolutely HATE running out of printer ink?

[jmowreader]

This afternoon I was at work and ran out of printer ink. I had to shut down until Monday morning when my new batch of ink arrives.

Oh...for all the "why not just go to the office supply store to get a new cartridge?" folks...this is the printer:



They don't sell this ink locally.

Oh, and on the home front (literally): When I told my boss I was thinking of moving to Lumberton from Fayettenam, he told me I should rent "Bobby's house, it's really close." Close ain't the word for it. Bobby's house, which is nice, is right next door to the shop. The only way I could have a shorter commute is to put the printer in my living room. My wife has informed me, because this printer is very foul smelling (it uses "eco solvent" ink which uses diethylene glycol monomethyl ether as its carrier) I can't bring one home. This may be good--can you imagine all the cat hair that would wind up in the prints? Anyway, we've got our deposit down, and as soon as Bobby gets the new HVAC in the house we're moving in.

Incidentally, if someone offers you a free ColorSpan DisplayMaker X-12 printer, resist the temptation. The fucking printer may have been free, but we gotta buy six $349 ink cartridges and six $135 printheads (the heads last through twelve cartridges) before we can turn it on.

[Deja Q]

1. Dang. And I thought my printer allowed wide carriage printing...

BTW: Replaceable print heads ensure high quality. My pigment-based wide carriage printer ($1000) has an integrated, immovable print head and typically goes bad after 2 years of moderate usage.

[jmowreader]

2. High quality print heads ensure high quality.

The print head in that Mutoh costs $6000 all by itself.

Incidentally, if you want to see a company whose left hand has NO idea what its right hand is doing, look at Mutoh. Mutoh's corporate headquarters in Japan says you're not supposed to clean the head on an eco-solvent printer manually. (OTOH, they not only tell you to clean the head on a full-solvent printer because you gotta, sometimes five or six times a day, they give you a little squeegee to do it with.) Mutoh's design department in Belgium (the Mutoh factory is in Mortsel, Belgium) put a function to unlock the head motors, a compartment to slide the head into and a door to gain access to the bottom of the head into the printer. Now...if you're not supposed to clean the head with a foam-tipped swab (a big bag of which is packaged with each printer) moistened with isopropyl alcohol, why is the printer designed to help you do it?

[Jamastiene]

3. I remember when I used to buy Lexmark Printers

every time I ran out of ink. I just couldn't understand why buying more ink cost me almost as much as buying a new printer, so I'd just buy a new printer complete with, you guessed it, new ink.

Now, I have several Lexmark Printers sittint around with no ink in them. I wonder what to do with them. All they need is a good cleaning and some ink. :shrug: