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Printer problems
Aug. 4th, 2006 12:38 amY’know what’s kinda annoying? The item on the left is a Canon printer, a model I own, the Canon S330. The item on the right is a digital camera I don’t own, the Canon S330.
Because there just aren’t enough possible combinations of letters and numbers for Canon to come up with different naming schemes for their different product lines.
Also what’s annoying is that I use the printer very rarely, yet it seems as if it’s running out of ink after two or three pages. Probably the print head’s getting gummed up with crusty ink. There are cleaner heads you can buy, but Canon doesn’t (as far as I can tell) make one, and I can’t find them listed on Amazon. In fact, all the listings I see are from companies low enough on the food chain that my rip-off sense is tingling.
Which has me thinking about buying a new printer. Something that can print on 3x5 index cards would be nice. But the printer market has turned really weird compared to what it was like when my sense of what printers ought to do was being formed, back in the ’80s and early ’90s. Back then, printers were mostly aimed at printing business documents (or zines, or RPG character sheets) on paper. Now they seem mostly aimed at printing photos for the home market. And it’s hard to find one that doesn’t have a copier and scanner bundled in.
And speaking of scanners, hot damn, 4800 dpi! I may need to get one of these babies.
Because there just aren’t enough possible combinations of letters and numbers for Canon to come up with different naming schemes for their different product lines.
Also what’s annoying is that I use the printer very rarely, yet it seems as if it’s running out of ink after two or three pages. Probably the print head’s getting gummed up with crusty ink. There are cleaner heads you can buy, but Canon doesn’t (as far as I can tell) make one, and I can’t find them listed on Amazon. In fact, all the listings I see are from companies low enough on the food chain that my rip-off sense is tingling.
Which has me thinking about buying a new printer. Something that can print on 3x5 index cards would be nice. But the printer market has turned really weird compared to what it was like when my sense of what printers ought to do was being formed, back in the ’80s and early ’90s. Back then, printers were mostly aimed at printing business documents (or zines, or RPG character sheets) on paper. Now they seem mostly aimed at printing photos for the home market. And it’s hard to find one that doesn’t have a copier and scanner bundled in.
And speaking of scanners, hot damn, 4800 dpi! I may need to get one of these babies.