When things go south, it seems they go in pairs or trips. My faithful inkjet printer with the continuous ink system packed up a second time, and I just didn’t have the heart to take it back to Voelker’s. On the same day, my laserprinter decided to have terminal vertical lines which were close enough together to make copy near invisible. Then, to make a nice round three, the amplifier for the sound system in the TV room developed a growl.
I love a good puzzle, but these devoured nearly three whole days.
Epson’s engineers had locked up my printer in the name of ‘protecting me from failure.’ I paid once to have their wicked software reset. Now, I had to have another printer.
Just by accident, I found one which was being sold for parts by a fellow on Craigslist. His baby sitter had jammed it printing her wedding invitations, and he felt he destroyed it trying to unjam it. We settled on $20 – he thinking I was quite the fool buying a destroyed printer; I thinking if Voelker had two broken printers, he just might combine to make one of them work.
Instead of Plan One, I spent two days, got ink all over the place, cursed a blue streak, but finally have a color printer that just works like it was brand new.
In addition, the new drum for the laserprinter arrived in record time. Now, I have two printers. Cathy’s printer stopped working so since I was in ‘printer mode’ I fixed her’s AND fixed the amplifier tonight.
Was it worth it?
You bet.
Hmmm. Maybe I’m here. Maybe I’m lost. All of the above have been present today.
You are here, Gerry. Thanks for jumping through the hoops.
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