My boss and I were the lucky recipients of a new color printer a couple of months ago. Our old color printer was a little HP Photosmart that printed one page every three minutes, if you were lucky. The new color printer will print ten times that amount. It's about three times the size of the old printer and the ink cartridges are the size of an encyclopedia. There are four cartridges (black, yellow, cyan and magenta), and they cost about $100 each.
After our computer guy got the computer hooked up to the printer, we tried it and it worked. The problem was that it would ONLY print in color, which is not necessarily a bad thing, but we didn't really NEED everything in color and we need to conserve the colored ink. So I went in and changed the settings on my computer so that my printing would be black/white or grayscale until I told it otherwise. While I was finally able to print in black/white or grayscale, I now couldn't get anything to print in color. (And you wonder why I hate computers!) I tried to change the setting back to what they originally were, but the computer wouldn't acknowledge any of the changes. Fortunately, the computer guy at work is awesome and he was able to fix it.
Computers--it's a love/hate relationship!
2 comments:
Me too. You can't survive without them, but you can't live with them, either!
What's most obnoxious about computers is Windows. Unfortunately, I don't know enough about Ubuntu to run it effectively and make it work for me, and I don't want to have to buy a whole new computer, so I can't join the Mac parade. Hmmm...it's not a monopoly, but close enough, methinks. Darn Microsoft...
I swear, they do have a mind of their own sometimes...
Oh, and I agree with Becky about the Windows issue. That IS one big plus to having a Mac (and a Mac-savvy husband)!
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