I found a new printer – at a yard sale – for twenty bucks. Yes, I know, it’s not new. It has the same printing mechanism as my old HP Photosmart C5150 except that it has no scanner and it has different letters – D7260. Not sure if it’s the D or the higher value numbers that make it print in all colours, but this one does. As Aaron would say, “How dope is that!?” It print didn’t when I tried it at the yard sale [error – error – does not compute], but I was confident I could repair it, and I did.
What about the old one? (A freebie from work a hundred years ago!) Try as I might, I could not get the C5150 to print blue. The weird thing is that there are two blues in it (actually, cyan) – a regular blue and a light blue – but neither of them printed. If it were just one type of blue, I’d say the ink suction tube was faulty or the print head was damaged, but the two blues use different ink streams – cartridges, tubes, portions of the print head. So what gives? Short of replacing the print head (which I did for the HP Offiejet 7610, a wide-format printer), I can find no way of getting the blue to print.
Doesn’t matter now. The D7260 prints nicely. Happy happy joy joy.
Holy heck. In writing this Ongoing Letter entry, I nodded off like three times. If I find it lacking adequate excitement so as to fall asleep this many times, I can imagine how you might feel reading it. I think it also has something to do with the heat. It’s hotter than Arizona asphalt out there, and it’s making me dopey.