Last week I thought I found the holy grail. Print cartridge refill kids…and on sale for $7.50 at the local pharmacy. Don’t you know that that is where you can get your best office supplies? So I just filled my black cartridge yesterday and printed a page and it was awesome! This morning, my packing slips are printing in purple ink which tells me that there is no black coming out and my color cartridge is doing it’s best to mix a believable black.
The reason I’m telling you all of this is because I found something really nifty, if it worked, that is. I knew you could clean your print cartridge heads. I didn’t know you could “intermediate” clean them which I guess is a deeper clean…maybe they pull out the Windex in there or something. But the coolest thing (at least I thought so) was that you can “prime” your cartridge. How many times (am I the only one?) does your cartridge seem to dry up and you think, “if I could just get that ink flowing again I’d be ok.” Ok. Maybe it’s just me.
But that still isn’t helping so I’m off to read the instructions on how to reset the ink level. (Is this really saving me money???) It’s a conspiracy, isn’t it? I mean, how can that much ink cost over $25 but the refills for 6 fillings cost $7.50? And if you say it’s because the plastic print cartridge with the computer sensor in it I have to disagree with that too. Have you seen some of these McDonald’s toys these days? They have plastic, computer chips, light and batteries and they’re available ‘free’ in a $3.99 Happy Meal. Tell me they can’t make a print cartridge that is less than $25!
Ok, I’m getting down now.
UPDATE: Dude! It worked. Sorry, couldn’t resist the dude thing. And my black print is the juiciest I’ve ever seen it!
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