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My Ink Is a Bully! and I Wanna Be A Bald Man! |
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My father bought a printer that cost R$700. It may not sound much for people outside Brazil, but for us it does. He did it because it is both fast and good, and also because the ink cartidges are separated from the printheads, and also also because the cyan/magent/yellow inks are separated. The last two are because then it is easier for us to re-fill them (this is much cheaper than paying someone to do it, and MUCH more than buying a new one). But here comes the first problem: the ink cartridges have a chip that doesn't let the printer use it again if it ever gets empty. So we had to buy the chips... And that's when we went to São Paulo (we travelled for about fourteen hours, more the time we spend there and the time to go back it makes four day and a half) found our new friend Buck! Buck are ink cartridges connected by little plastic pipes with outside bottles that we can fill with ink, so it never runs out of ink if you fill it constantly. We even got free ink! But... problem two: the free ink was alright with the colored colors, but not enough for the bigger, black ink cartridge. "Well, then let's fill it with the ink we were using before!" "You sure it is allright dad?" "Of course, why wouldn't?"... Ok... After printing for some time, it started having problems with the black ink. "Hey, what's the problem?" "I don't know dad, maybe it got some air... Let's remove the ink and put it in again, or wait some time for it toget rid of the air itself?" "No, just keep printing and it will go out!" Some time latter: "Why are you wasting the other inks and paper? "Uh... because you told me to?" "Wait some time like you said!"... it worked for a little... "Hey, why did it stopped working again, didn't you say that was the solution?" "I told you I wasn't sure!"
The next day he did the other thing that I told him to, and even filled the other inks with our old ones... "Hey, it worked!" Some time latter... "Damn it! it stoped working again!" "Not only that, the yellow stopped too!" "Hey, aren't the black and yellow printheads the same?" "Yeah, dad, but you think it is the problem?" "Of course!"
R$150 latter... "Yeah! now it is working!" "But the read look a little orange..." "Hey, was the black always brown in the pipe?" "No dad, I remember it was pure black... Dammit! now the blue is having problems! And the black again!" "Why does the black ink always give us problems?" (in other printers, even sometimes the inks mixing, there was less chances of having problems with the collors than of the black ink failling/leaking) "I don't know, maybe it hates us! I already told you technology hates us! Remember that computer that always shut down by himself?" "For the last time, technology doesn't hate us, WE use fake things foe economy and they already have problems!" "Well, anyway, I don't hear of anyone else having so many problems with their technology as we do..." "I'll try to remove the air again..." "Ok, meanwhile I'll keep doing my flash animation!" Some time later... "Dammit, stop playing with the computer and help me!" "But what can I do? I don't know anything about printers!" "But you are the only one here that knows anything about computers!"
And so it goes on...
My father then decides to send it back to São Paulo, so the man who sold it to us can fix it... there we found out our old ink was corrosive, and we lost all three printheads (the two we had plus the new one) and almost lost the buck itself! We bought the right ink now, but that doesn't change the fact that we now hate our old ink! And that's why I worked for three days after the printer was working back nonstop, rested one day and then finished it today! ...I mean, for now... I bet I will have more work till the end of the day...
A friend of mine gave me an idea of something to write about when I have nothing new to say... If you want to know who this friend is, or wich what she said that gave me this idea... read the comments from my last entry! But I am gonna start using it today anyway!
*ahem* Ba-ald ba-ald maaaan... I-wanna-be... a ba-ald man! Ba-ald ba-ald maaaan... I-wanna-be a baldie!
Always so hairless, always without hair...
I'll think of more musics as I have more time without anything to write about...
Yorae Rasante · Sat Feb 03, 2007 @ 08:56pm · 0 Comments |
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