Sunday 11/16/2025
Sunday rituals, plants, puzzle. Joanne called, her printer was misbehaving again. It’s an HP and she had replaced its color cartridge and the printer wouldn’t talk to the cartridge. We fiddled with it and finally, since she had bought two, just went for the next one and that worked. But the experience proved useful later in the day.
Drove down to the museum and led the noon tour. Nice bunch of people, good tour. Back by 1:30 which let me actually have lunch, because on Sundays now, we have a fancy brunch spread which they keep open until 2pm.
Napped, fiddled with this and that, then about 5:30 another person called me in a panic. She needed to print something and her printer wouldn’t print anything. Normally I would say, call the tech squad number and leave a message, but she was in a rush and I had worked on the same printer a few days ago on a legit tech squad call. And I’m a sucker. So after eating supper I went to her place and, heh heh, diagnosed the mysterious problem.
She would print from her computer and the printer would move the paper and you could hear the mechanism going back and forth as normal, but the paper came out completely blank. It was an HP printer. And she mentioned that she had just replaced the ink cartridges. Because I had seen that process earlier in the day, I remembered how each new cartridge comes with a little diaper wrap of green tape you are supposed to take off. I popped the cartridges out and sho’ nuff, she had not peeled off the green tape. Pulled the tape off, pushed the cartridges back in place, ta-daaa it prints just perfect. If I hadn’t seen the HP cartridge at Joanne’s place earlier, I wonder how long it would have taken me to figure that one out.
Codgerville 