{"id":2486,"date":"2004-05-13T03:58:26","date_gmt":"2004-05-13T17:58:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/05\/13\/shouldve-bought-a-new-printer\/"},"modified":"2019-12-10T09:40:19","modified_gmt":"2019-12-10T17:40:19","slug":"shouldve-bought-a-new-printer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/05\/13\/shouldve-bought-a-new-printer\/","title":{"rendered":"Should&#8217;ve bought a new printer"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[]'><\/div>\n<p>Well, this is frustrating: after grumbling last night about the <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/05\/why_bother_buyi.html\" title=\"Why bother buying ink?\">high cost of ink vs.\u00a0the low cost of printers<\/a>, I&#8217;ve since found out that my printer is apparently broken in some way. No matter how many times I reset it, run the diagnostic routines, clean the print heads, or do any of the other little things to coax it into life, it won&#8217;t print.<\/p>\n<p>So I go to the Epson website to see if I can get tech support, and see this next to the tech support phone number:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  Before you call, be near your computer and printer and have ready your product name, serial number and proof of purchase information.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Me being me, I have every single one of those bits of information <em>except<\/em> the proof of purchase. I can&#8217;t find a receipt anywhere, and probably tossed it along with the packaging after setting up the printer.<\/p>\n<p>So now I&#8217;ve blown \\$70 on ink, and if I actually want to print anything at home, I need to buy a new printer. I really <em>should<\/em> have skipped the whole buying ink stage, and just treated it as a &#8220;disposable.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>What a waste.<\/p>\n<p><strong>iTunes:<\/strong> &#8220;One Good Man&#8221; by Joplin, Janis and the Kozmic Blues Band from the album <em>Janis<\/em> (1969, 4:11).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So now I&#8217;ve blown $70 on ink, and if I actually want to print anything at home, I need to buy a new printer. I really should have skipped the whole buying ink stage, and just treated it as a &#8216;disposable.&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2043,2038],"tags":[13],"class_list":["post-2486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-tech","tag-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2486\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}