I cheated the printer
05-27-2011, 07:00 AM
#61
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Aren't we glad printers have come down in price? My Kodak ISO or IOS (whatever) cost $99. it's color, scanner, copier. That was at least 2 yrs ago. Now I understand they're more likely to be 50-60 dollars. We do live in a throwaway society.
05-27-2011, 08:38 AM
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Originally Posted by TonnieLoree
I had promised a quilter to try out her new paper-pieced pattern. Pattern arrived a-okay, via email. Went to change out the printer ink, and I heard a ruckus under the hood of the printer. It sounded like someone threw in a handful of b-b's. Isn't that just perfect timing?
The printer isn't worth fixing. I'm going to buy a new one after the first of the month, but, I still have a job to do. Hmmm. I brought the pattern up onto the screen; measured to see that the 1" on the screen was 1" that I measured. Yes, it is.
I taped up a piece of tracing paper over the monitor and used a fine tipped marker to register the points. After I took it off the monitor, I connected the dots, and wrote in the piecing order.
Needed 4 copies of this and 4 copies mirror imaged. Stapled around the edges of 8 pieces of tracing paper and sewed on top of the fine lines with an old dull needle, unthreaded. I also lengthened the stitch to a baste. Voila! Flip over 4 of them and marked them correspondingly.
You can't outsmart me, you, you printer thing you! R.I.P.
The printer isn't worth fixing. I'm going to buy a new one after the first of the month, but, I still have a job to do. Hmmm. I brought the pattern up onto the screen; measured to see that the 1" on the screen was 1" that I measured. Yes, it is.
I taped up a piece of tracing paper over the monitor and used a fine tipped marker to register the points. After I took it off the monitor, I connected the dots, and wrote in the piecing order.
Needed 4 copies of this and 4 copies mirror imaged. Stapled around the edges of 8 pieces of tracing paper and sewed on top of the fine lines with an old dull needle, unthreaded. I also lengthened the stitch to a baste. Voila! Flip over 4 of them and marked them correspondingly.
You can't outsmart me, you, you printer thing you! R.I.P.
I'll bet you're one of those folks who goes to the hardware store and sees a whatchamacallit and says..."Hmmm I wonder how this can help me with my quilting"
:lol:
05-27-2011, 08:45 AM
#66
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Originally Posted by TonnieLoree
Originally Posted by sak658
My printer is needing new ink and it runs about $60 at Walmart for the 2. I'm getting the Kodak 301 printer, the black ink for it is $9. and the color is $19, tired of paying out the yazoo for ink. They have the printer on line for $79. So I'm going for it....anyone else have this printer??
05-27-2011, 01:17 PM
#67
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I bought a new printer/scanner in the Walmart blitz before Christmas. The thought being when the old printer ran out of ink, I would install the new one. Guess what..Right..the old printer is still working it's little 'head' off. But I thought I saw maybe a little skip last time I printed. Maybe soon I will get the new printer installed on the computer in the sewing room.
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