At this point, it's just comical, but have you ever had one of those days where nothing is going right? I allowed my self to get sweet talked into performing another bonused pizza shop that I really didn't want to do. But hey, work is work so you do what you have to do. I made the call, and the pizza was on its way. As soon as I go to print the necessary paperwork to take the appropriate photos, the printer stops working.

Hmm, must be out of ink. I could hear a little bit of black ink in the cartridge swirling around but I guess it was not quite enough to get the job done. I run out to pick up new ink for $62 and return home. Install the ink cartridges, and it still doesn't work. Trouble shoot for over an hour trying all the HP forum recommendations only to find out numerous people have the same issue with this particular printer. (That is only a year old by the way.)

I soon realize after trying to reboot the system, reloading the software, re-aligning the printer cartridges, cleaning the printer heads, and numerous other recommendations, my printer is simply not going to work. I have exhausted all efforts. HP 6510 - time of death... 2:56 PM.

I head out to Best Buy to buy a new printer. Get stuck behind a very slow 18 wheeler who has some very unpleasant smelling fumes that I just can't get away from. Hit a little bit of traffic, reach my destination, shell out another $105 for a printer and head home.

Meanwhile, my pizza has now sat for several hours, and any hopes of salvaging it for the shop is not going to happen. I let my teenage son go ahead and have at it.

Fast forward a couple of more hours later, I am re-ordering my *favorite* pizza, again, and setting up a brand new printer.

Nothing like spending almost $200, setting up a new printer and performing the same pizza shop twice in one day. It is now 5:30 PM and the only shop I had scheduled for the day, and it's not even done.

Oh well, at least a new Grey's Anatomy is on tonight. I know it's just one of those days and can laugh about it now, but earlier?? Not so much.

I've had days like that! A $20 shop ends up costing me $100 because of things breaking down!

I am currently having one of those days too.

Thank goodness for wine and Netflix.

OMG..I just checked my printer but it's C6150 all in one.

Sorry this happened to you, but I must admit...I did laugh..sorry.

BBird0701 - Wine is definitely on the schedule for tonight!

Cunuck - I am glad it made you laugh. I kept telling myself, "Just laugh. It's ok." I kept responding, "No, it's NOT!"

jpgilham - It lessens the pain to know it's not just me.

Yeah, it's been one hit after another today. I've been longingly thinking of a nice bottle I bought a few weeks back and haven't opened, and then remembered the wineglasses are dusty and that's one more thing on a long, never-ending, always-adding list of things to do today.

By the time 5:30 rolled around and things just kept getting progressively worse, I just said "Screw it, who needs wine glasses anyway!"

So now I'm sitting here all classy-like, already in pajamas, drinking a $150 bottle of wine out of a plastic Mickey Mouse tumbler. Don't judge!

Judge? Hell, I want to join you!

I'll fill the Donald Duck tumbler for you, LOL. Goofy may be around here too, if you'd rather have that one!

On your printer situation... emergency ink sitations like that was what made me turn to a toner printer a few years ago. I have a Brother toner printer/scanner which works awesomely. The toner cartridges are really cheap when bought in bulk (I buy the boxes of 10)... they work out to about $8 apiece and each lasts about 5,000 prints before it starts producing streaky prints.

I have a separate color inkjet printer which was given to me as gift years ago and I never use except on the rare occasion that I need to print photos or something in color. It was the one that was an ink-guzzler and I hated using it because, I hate buying ink when it's so expensive.

It must be something in the air. I have had one of those days also.. One that ends with wine-ing, instead of just me whining.

Thankfully, I too, have a fantastic bottle waiting for me when this marathon day finally ends.

BBird0701 - Donald Duck sounds great! Or, I can bring one of my little one's sippy cups. I'm not picky. Whatever gets the job done.... And great idea about the toner printer. I will have to check it out. What kind do you have?

Cellphonebarbie - It comforts me to know I wasn't the only one having a s**ty day.

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Not trying to sound like an advert, but I swear by simplyink dot com....amazing prices - pictures/print come out EXACTLY the same, no problem, FAST shipping, and usually you can find a 10% off coupon - just try them once....I got SO tired of paying that much for ink!! Seriously, it's like $10/cartridge.....!

^^ That's where I order from!!

I wait until the case sales (March, July, November) and stock up for the year.

Chix - I will have to check that out. Thanks!

And if the day couldn't get any better, my Mac is acting up and isn't wanting to download the new software for the new printer. So, it's now 9:30 PM and I have two printers and can't print. Frakin' nice.

That was me on Monday.. Everything that could go wrong did. I had to shop 31 stores in a mall and I had it all planned out. Son's school bus was two hours late, subway had mechanical problems, bus took forever, ended up getting sidetracked by all the beautiful winter coats and kitchenware when I did first two shops there. Guidelines seemed like it would take less than ten minutes but all the SAs were hiding. Then my phone stopped working (I save and send reports off of it to save time later). Didn't finish reports until 11pm. Up next day at 6am. I hope you have a better day tomorrow!

dixiewhiskey - Thanks! And I am sorry to hear you had a rough day as well. I am hopeful tomorrow will be a better day.

My Brother printer today has decided not to recognize its toner cartridge. I tried changing to a new one (the first one wasn't that old; I just replaced it a few weeks ago) and it still complains. Had to go to my other computer to print the docs for one of the shops I did today because this computer decided it didn't want to network today. (Usually I can print to my other printer right from my laptop, but not today when I was trying to get out the door for my 400 mile round trip route.)

Guess this was a bad day for printers. I may take the Brother to the local geeks because I really like the printer (it prints two-sided) and I just bought two toner cartridges for it that I don't want to waste. Hopefully they can fix it.

Some days you just have to throw your hands in the air and tell the powers "Go ahead - FLUSH!"

BBird0701 Wrote:
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> On your printer situation... emergency ink
> sitations like that was what made me turn to a
> toner printer a few years ago. I have a Brother
> toner printer/scanner which works awesomely. The
> toner cartridges are really cheap when bought in
> bulk (I buy the boxes of 10)... they work out to
> about $8 apiece and each lasts about 5,000 prints
> before it starts producing streaky prints.
>
> I have a separate color inkjet printer which was
> given to me as gift years ago and I never use
> except on the rare occasion that I need to print
> photos or something in color. It was the one that
> was an ink-guzzler and I hated using it because, I
> hate buying ink when it's so expensive.


Same here. I did the spotter shops and after 50+ pages printing for 5 shops I ran out of ink after having just put in a cartridge 4 days earlier. I bought a HP laser printer for printing shops. Leaves me with 3 printers, one all in one that won't print but I keep it since I like the scanner on it, one wireless all in one that prints and scans and now the laser.

If your using a Ink Jet printer to print out your shop forms, your wasting lots of money.

When your toner runs out, your better off throwing it out than spending the money on the insanely priced cartridges.

You should invest in a black and white laser printer and having a built in duplexer is a must to cut the paper usage in half. Then having a brand that has a driver that will allow you to print two pages per page will net you four pages for two sheets of paper.

Not all laser printers have a huge capacity toner cartridge and some even have the drum integrated into the cartridge to make it insanely expensive as well.

I have found that the Brother series printers have large capacity toner cartridges and keep the same cartridges for years. Some manufacturers come out with a new model every 6six months and then a two year old model wont have the cartridge on the shelf anymore.

$129 (Better hurry, it's being replaced with a newer model that has built in Dropbox, a color display and other useless features and is on clearance till sold out at 35% off)

[www.amazon.com]

There is a reason this is the #1 best selling printer on Amazon.

They make the same printer with a scanner on top as well:

Here is an after market toner cartridge for it that cost $16 that will print 1,200 Maritz type pages:

[www.amazon.com]

I usually print out the paperwork and double check that my camera is working before even ordering a pizza for a shop. And right now, if this printer breaks, I'm screwed for anything requiring paperwork.

I have improvised before on the shop ID/store ID card and used the back of a previous one with handwritten legends and new numbers, when there was no way I could print out a new one. They took it just fine...

Time to break out the whiskey, lol.

BBird0701 Wrote:
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> So now I'm sitting here all classy-like, already
> in pajamas, drinking a $150 bottle of wine out of
> a plastic Mickey Mouse tumbler. Don't judge!

Plastic tumbler? After the week I had, I'm drinking directly from the wine bottle!

Phoebe70 Wrote:
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> BBird0701 Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > So now I'm sitting here all classy-like,
> already
> > in pajamas, drinking a $150 bottle of wine out
> of
> > a plastic Mickey Mouse tumbler. Don't judge!
>
> Plastic tumbler? After the week I had, I'm
> drinking directly from the wine bottle!

I thought about it, but as I haven't really had more than one glass in a looooong time, I didn't want to risk getting sloppy drunk and dropping the bottle. So plastic tumbler with a slide-back sippy lid it was!

DrSquash Wrote:
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> I usually print out the paperwork and double check
> that my camera is working before even ordering a
> pizza for a shop. And right now, if this printer
> breaks, I'm screwed for anything requiring
> paperwork.
>
> I have improvised before on the shop ID/store ID
> card and used the back of a previous one with
> handwritten legends and new numbers, when there
> was no way I could print out a new one. They took
> it just fine...

I just print multiples of the generic receipt form and generic Photo ID cards, and keep them in a folder. I don't bother with printing the "personalized" ones that are sent in the email. I reprint more when I get below ten.

I've had a couple emergency ink/printer-jam-from-hell situations that also resulted in wasted pizzas... so then I started printing ahead and having multiples.

cjbstar Wrote:
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> Time to break out the whiskey, lol.


TGIF people!!

I hate buying ink and have been using the hell out of my HP printer/scanner for 4 years now. I just know it will crap out when I need it the most. Thanks for the info about the brother that will be my next printer.

Thanks for all the great suggestions on a new printer and what you all use. I think I am going to give it a try. Wow, sounds like an epic fail on printers this week for a few of us! And lots of drinking to ensue.