Comments on: Virtue http://www.cherylbrunette.com/2010/06/virtue/ Sun, 05 Jun 2011 17:51:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: Gary Roscoe Johnson http://www.cherylbrunette.com/2010/06/virtue/comment-page-1/#comment-777 Gary Roscoe Johnson Fri, 18 Jun 2010 02:46:28 +0000 http://www.cherylbrunette.com/?p=5245#comment-777 Get on it, Lady! There must be a way of making self-destructing books! Oh, right - people don't read physical media any more. Get on it, Lady! There must be a way of making self-destructing books! Oh, right – people don’t read physical media any more.

]]> By: Cheryl http://www.cherylbrunette.com/2010/06/virtue/comment-page-1/#comment-776 Cheryl Wed, 16 Jun 2010 21:39:42 +0000 http://www.cherylbrunette.com/?p=5245#comment-776 Actually, I got it to work the next morning. I emailed the small company from which I had bought the ink and they gave me a protocol to try. I just added more ink to the cartridges that arrived which were supposed to be about 1/3 to 1/2 full. I had to load and unload the new cartridges several times to get the machine to recognize them, but once it did we were good to go. I figured out that I bought $800+ worth of ink refills (Costco price) for $62 delivered to my door. My frustration had more to do with the fact that I left June 9 for So CA. I was in LA for 5 days and now points south for a while. I was trying to wrap up some business printing (and maps, etc) before I left. As for the slugs. It has been a very rainy, cloudy late spring. The grass is way out of control and crawling with them. I haven't been able to keep up with it. Fortunately, the young man who lives on my property in my son's dwelling has access to a heavy-duty weed-whacker. He's already done it once. I've mowed a couple of times and it will have to be whacked again. Once the dry season arrives, maintenance gets easier. It's actually a very smart business strategy to manufacture something that has to be renewed, bought over and over again. Selling a knitting book and teaching knitting classes do not qualify as so smart. Actually, I got it to work the next morning. I emailed the small company from which I had bought the ink and they gave me a protocol to try. I just added more ink to the cartridges that arrived which were supposed to be about 1/3 to 1/2 full. I had to load and unload the new cartridges several times to get the machine to recognize them, but once it did we were good to go. I figured out that I bought $800+ worth of ink refills (Costco price) for $62 delivered to my door.

My frustration had more to do with the fact that I left June 9 for So CA. I was in LA for 5 days and now points south for a while. I was trying to wrap up some business printing (and maps, etc) before I left.

As for the slugs. It has been a very rainy, cloudy late spring. The grass is way out of control and crawling with them. I haven’t been able to keep up with it. Fortunately, the young man who lives on my property in my son’s dwelling has access to a heavy-duty weed-whacker. He’s already done it once. I’ve mowed a couple of times and it will have to be whacked again. Once the dry season arrives, maintenance gets easier.

It’s actually a very smart business strategy to manufacture something that has to be renewed, bought over and over again. Selling a knitting book and teaching knitting classes do not qualify as so smart.

]]> By: Gary Roscoe Johnson http://www.cherylbrunette.com/2010/06/virtue/comment-page-1/#comment-775 Gary Roscoe Johnson Wed, 16 Jun 2010 19:26:40 +0000 http://www.cherylbrunette.com/?p=5245#comment-775 I share your frustration with ink-jet printers. Epson (or Hewlett-Packard for that matter) does not WANT you to use third party cartridges that can be refilled. Neither does Hewlett-Packard, the manufacturer of both of my printers, who put chips in their cartridges so you MUST buy their overpriced ink. I've easily spent 15 times the price of the printers themselves on their ink cartridges. I share your frustration with ink-jet printers. Epson (or Hewlett-Packard for that matter) does not WANT you to use third party cartridges that can be refilled. Neither does Hewlett-Packard, the manufacturer of both of my printers, who put chips in their cartridges so you MUST buy their overpriced ink. I’ve easily spent 15 times the price of the printers themselves on their ink cartridges.

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