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I love living in the future, #1790
Oct. 4th, 2006 01:40 pmWhen I packed my car for my extended trip to Michigan a little over a month ago, I boxed up the Canon PIXMA MP500 all-in-one I'd bought just a few weeks earlier. I was a tad apprehensive -- I think still think of inkjet printers as temperamental little things, and I hadn't even installed the Canon software on my laptop. At home, it's hooked up to my desktop computer-on-a-stick.
All went well with the printer in Michigan. The software loaded with ease and the couple hundred sheets of paper I went through was proof enough that bringing it along was a good idea. It's so much easier to make document changes when one has a hard copy to refer to instead of having to flip back and forth between the eFax image on screen and the layout being worked on. ( trip and bomb natter )
But I was talking about the printer. I unpacked it a few minutes ago, reconnected the cables, and set it to printing some invoices. The power came on, the desktop computer saw the printer, all was well. Until the error box popped up on my screen. Oh, dear. I'd been worried something might go wrong, that the printer might not endure the 1,500+ miles of road bumps and the like, as well as the other ordeals of the trip. Just because it made it there didn't mean it would make it back again.
"Output paper tray is closed. Open paper tray and resume printing."
Duh. And there, on the little monitor screen on the printer, was a picture directing my attention to the location of the button that opens the paper output tray.
Tray opened, invoices printed, all is well.
Printers didn't use to be this easy. I'm glad they are now.
All went well with the printer in Michigan. The software loaded with ease and the couple hundred sheets of paper I went through was proof enough that bringing it along was a good idea. It's so much easier to make document changes when one has a hard copy to refer to instead of having to flip back and forth between the eFax image on screen and the layout being worked on. ( trip and bomb natter )
But I was talking about the printer. I unpacked it a few minutes ago, reconnected the cables, and set it to printing some invoices. The power came on, the desktop computer saw the printer, all was well. Until the error box popped up on my screen. Oh, dear. I'd been worried something might go wrong, that the printer might not endure the 1,500+ miles of road bumps and the like, as well as the other ordeals of the trip. Just because it made it there didn't mean it would make it back again.
"Output paper tray is closed. Open paper tray and resume printing."
Duh. And there, on the little monitor screen on the printer, was a picture directing my attention to the location of the button that opens the paper output tray.
Tray opened, invoices printed, all is well.
Printers didn't use to be this easy. I'm glad they are now.
