LATEST MOAN FROM YOU AND ME - 2022

I'm trying to remember the last time somebody said to me they wanted something printing

Never.

People are more likely to print stuff for me.

 

If you have a cheap domestic printer, it is probably what they used to call bubble jet (they don't seem to use that term anymore but it's the same technology).

The cartridges do bung up if you don't use them for a while. You can usually resurrect them though.

Remove the cartridges exactly as though you're about to replace them. If you look very carefully you can usually see the tiniest slot where the ink is projected out of. Give them a clean with a mild solvent that doesn't leave a residue. Lens cleaner is a good candidate. You can be quite firm with it. Just don't use anything like toilet paper that might leave fibres on there. Kitchen towel works. Whack them back in, and print a test/calibration page.

 

this is what I have, they dry up after a couple of uses and cost stupid money.

 

Have a look at these...Inkjet Printers | Printers | Products | Epson United Kingdom
If there's just one thing that I can recommend 100% it's cartridge-less printers! They are more expensive than your average £40 inkjet, but they pay for themselves very quickly as you're not forking out for cartridges. It's also sheer luxury always having a working printer. Even after a period of not being used, it works.

 

I worked for Lexmark in Rosyth where the cartridges were manufactured. They have the chip on the cartridge, unlike the Epson I currently use. The ink in a cartridge works out dearer than Chanel No 5 volume for volume. I very seldom print nowadays but my next printer will be a mono laser printer.

 

Offices tend to lease laser printers rather than buying them outright. They tend to only keep them a couple of years or so then negotiate a new lease contract with new printers. The old printers go back, and being a few years old, tend to get sold off dirt cheap (well cheap for a big commercial printer). They'll usually have plenty of life left in them so are a good buy, if you have space for them.

Remember though, they are dirty smelly things, so I wouldn't want one in my living room. They're alright in normal operation, but when you have to change the toner, or clean the rollers, black filth gets everywhere. You also need to think about power consumption. I don't know how much they consume but seeing as they have to warm up before they can print, I expect it's going to be more than the little domestic bubble jet.

 

You can buy a brand new Brother HL-1110 A4 Mono Laser Printer for £90. A toner cartridge costs £41 and does 1,000 pages. That would see my printing needs into the hereafter.

https://www.printerbase.co.uk/broth...xz7jpwpZ6G9w2n9YAvodHNx7SwHppl9BoCarMQAvD_BwE

 

That's why I delete my history quite often

 

I set my browser to delete cookies every time I exit/close it. Yes, I have to log in every time I come here but then I don't delete the passwords, only the trackers.

And my moan is that I really don't understand why we bother with daylight saving anymore. Really, if a farmer needs to harvest earlier in the day, well, then he can just get up when he wishes. Why make the rest of us shift back and forth?

That said, we don't change our clocks until November 6th so I'm only 4 hours behind most of you now!