[blue]

I've been perfecting a project in photoshop, printing off multiple copies, and I finish my final, and my stupid printer dies. Won't print AT ALL without a new cartridge...doesn't matter than its still printing okay, it won't let it. I hate inkjets. I want my laser back.

:mumble:

 

[BigMike]

Go get a new cartdrige?

it is the final copy, you want it to look good......

 

[blue]

Go get a new cartdrige?

it is the final copy, you want it to look good......

Well, it's not exactly for anything important, and I could care less...I wanted to go DJing before heading up to my parents for Fahja's day and now...NO!

This is why I am angry.

 

[maxyedor]

I'm with you all the way on that one. My little printer was out of red ink the other day so it wouldn't let me print black and whiltes WTF?

 

[blue]

I bought an Epson because of the ink lasting longer and individual color cartridges, but the fact that it won't let me print because it's "low" pisses me off. I should hack it.

 

[benno]

remove the cart and pop it back in; the printer will think it's a freshie.

 

[binary visions]

Jesus freaking christ.......did this REALLY need to get moved to the tech center......Ugh

Jesus freaking christ...is it REALLY worth your whining about...especially since it wasn't your thread...Ugh

 

[mastercycleman]

i say you verbally harass the printer until it does its job:mumble:

 

[blue]

Jesus freaking christ.......did this REALLY need to get moved to the tech center......Ugh

Seriously...this isn't a tech question or anything, just a sad ramble for the lounge...someone's being a bit nazi with the movings lately...oh well.

On a side note, I've been putting my alcohol-related threads in Beer & Food. I'm so proud of myself.

 

[Kornphlake]

Take the file to a 1 hour photo printer it will look way better printed on their equipment and paper than if you print at home and you don't have to worry about your ink cartridges running out of ink.

After going through 5 ink cartridges a year I ditched my color printer and bought an $80 laser, I've printed a few boxes of paper so far and I've yet to change the toner cartridge, heck if it ever runs out of toner I'll spend the extra $2 and just buy a new printer. Anything that needs color I have printed at Costco. I don't print color screen shots or full color web pages anymore, to be honest I haven't missed color at all. I don't know about Epson ink carts but for the cost of 2 HP carts I paid for my bargain laser printer.

 

[blue]

Black cart from orifice max was 25 bucks...the colored ones are cheaper.

It wasn't exactly a "project" that had to look good. If I ever do print anything that needs quality and such, I take it somewhere and have them print it, cause any printer under $300 is going to do a crap job.

 

[binary visions]

Take the file to a 1 hour photo printer it will look way better printed on their equipment and paper than if you print at home and you don't have to worry about your ink cartridges running out of ink.

There is no freakin' way I'm going to run to Costco or any other photo place every single time I want to make a print.

And it doesn't look way better on their equipment, anyway. It looks virtually the same. The difference being that theirs is a little more hardy than mine. blue, I don't know when you last bought a printer, but mine ran $225 IIRC when it was new, and the quality is awesome. HP Photosmart 8450. I hadn't bought a printer in 6 years before this and was absolutely shocked at how good the quality is.

Just saying that a home printer is very useful for a lot of people. When I need to print batches of photos, I do it from some place like Shutterfly, but I do individual prints all the time and it'd be silly to run to the store for every single one.

And chico (+ blue)...

 

[habitatxskate]

natural selection at its best.

 

[blue]

There is no freakin' way I'm going to run to Costco or any other photo place every single time I want to make a print.

And it doesn't look way better on their equipment, anyway. It looks virtually the same. The difference being that theirs is a little more hardy than mine. blue, I don't know when you last bought a printer, but mine ran $225 IIRC when it was new, and the quality is awesome. HP Photosmart 8450. I hadn't bought a printer in 6 years before this and was absolutely shocked at how good the quality is.

Just saying that a home printer is very useful for a lot of people. When I need to print batches of photos, I do it from some place like Shutterfly, but I do individual prints all the time and it'd be silly to run to the store for every single one.

And chico (+ blue)...

I've not printed any art or photos on it yet (so far just homework), but I have an Epson CX4200 that I think was $150...I can't remember, but I didn't think it would do a decent job on anything that needed to be done decently. Maybe I should try it...

 

[Kornphlake]

Well maybe a B&W laser printer isn't right for everybody, but for me it was silly to have a color ink jet. Every time I wanted to print one or two photos the stupid ink carts were empty and cost a small fortune. Most of my color ink went to printing directions from mapquest or a bill payment confirmation page which doesn't really need to be in color.

For myself it made a lot more sense to print everything black and white and pay 17 cents for photos. I used to pay a lot more than that when I shot film, figure $4 for a cheap 24 exposure roll and $5 for processing at a grocery store and that's over 35 cents per exposure and I'd end up throwing away 10% or more of the photos. If I actually cared about the photos you could pretty much double the price of film and processing. Spending 17 cents a piece for the photos I like seems pretty affordable. It really isn't any inconvenience to go to a photo lab either as that's what I would have done anyway.

 

[habitatxskate]

i develop my photos myself in my darkroom