Epson printers aren’t necessarily of the devil, but I suspect their cartridges are. I was in the middle of my Curriculum portfolio when the cartridge decided it was out of ink. It wasn’t out of ink; there were no lines or streaks in the printout. It simply decided it was out of ink. And it wouldn’t print anything else. I’d send a file to the printer, and the printer wouldn’t function because the cartridge insisted it was out of ink.
I even tried that trick where you pull it out, stick it back in, and trick the printer into thinking the cartridge was full… no dice. The cartridges have bloody microchips now. You can’t fool the printer anymore. If I had one of those ink syringes, and refilled the cartridge, it would still insist it was empty. Dangit!
It was a free printer; it came with my iMac. It’s now a little more obvious to me why it was free.
This, in the midst of a giant paper. I asked for an extra week to do it, then I stupidly put off finishing it a little longer. So, over the past four days, I have been pounding away at it; and if it weren’t for a nice little four-hour nap this morning I would be completely buggered. Have you ever been so sleep-deprived that you typed six paragraphs of utter garbage into your computer, thinking all the while, “Wow, I’m on a roll!”… then you woke up the rest of the way and realized you had to redo a half hour’s work? Fortunately, I now know enough to squeeze in a sleep break when my brain starts to do that.
But it’s finally done.
So, to celebrate, I am going to sleep a lot… right after this.