As an author, I spend a fair amount of time in my head, so to speak, working on stories. Lately though, I’ve had to devote more time than I’d like to dealing with “real world” issues – such as today’s problem child: a printer that’s refusing to print. (More specifically, it’s refusing to print the color black.) It’s got a new cartridge, so that’s not the problem. Based on research, it seems that the printhead is clogged.
Of course, a lot of modern printers come with self-cleaning options. Mine does, and I went through the process of having it clean the printhead. Sadly, that didn’t solve the problem. No worries, though – I just had it clean the printhead a second time. And then a third. And then a fourth… In short, I lost count of how many times I went through that. (Someone on one of the sites discussing this issue said that you might have to run the “clean printhead” cycle 10-20 times before it started printing again.) At some point, I realized I was going to waste all the ink cartridges trying to get this thing to work (and there was no garantee that it would.)
Thankfully, there was another solution: using a printhead cleaning kit. However, that initially seemed like the more expensive option. Why spend cash when the “clean printhead” command might resolve the issue? That seemed like a sensible approach at first, but after cleaning the printhead numerous times (and given the cost of printer cartridges), that kit started looking cheaper by the second. Long story short, I broke down and bought one.
Anyway, that brings us to the present. So I’m now going to try to this kit and see if I can get the printer working again without getting ink all over myself. If I’m successful, that’ll be two for two, because I posted about fixing a problem printer before. That one was a real pain, so I’m hoping this one will be easier. But to make sure I have something to put in the positive column today, I also posted the next chapter of Glimmerblade.