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HAPPY DISASTER

I seized victory out of the mouth of defeat today.

My printer has been on its last legs. It barely made it on to the new Mac System X.

We had to offer incense and prayer to the HP customer service gods to download a program that would work.

But today, mid project, it gave up the ghost.

We had taken pictures up and down the street to show why the MacMansion is out of sync with the neighborhood.

I got good pictures and was printing 8 or 9 of them when the machine faltered, gave a death rattle (really) and expired.

I tried, gods know I tried, to resuscitate but no dice.

Off to Staples and with a call to Dave and some help from a customer service guy I got me a new printer.

The HP 6940. Without the wireless.

It installed without any problem at all!

It has gotten where even four thumb intuitionists like me can install a new device.

I finished the photo job (due to be presented tomorrow) and all is well in printer land.

It is a beautiful machine. Sturdy too. Brushed chrome.

How can they sell them so cheap? 150 dollars?

OH! The cartridges, silly. Two combo packs cost almost as much as the printer.

Caught again.

Labels: computer, macmansion, photos