I cheated the printer
05-28-2011, 05:27 PM
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Originally Posted by joyce888
I have to say I got a good laugh from your post. This is absolutely no insinuation on your hair color (I don't even know what color hair you have) but it reminds me of the joke about the blond who put white-out on the computer screen to make her corrections. :lol:
05-28-2011, 05:29 PM
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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"
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05-28-2011, 05:33 PM
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Originally Posted by Liz aka Helen
I recently bough a printer - KODAK esp5210 (wireless)at Walmart. It has the cheapest ink available, and they are making all their printers with this ink too. This printer scans copies and of course prints. You can get 1 with the fax machine option also if that is something that you need. Just hook up to your phone line. Don't need an additional line either.
05-28-2011, 05:36 PM
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Originally Posted by glenda5253
If you connect to a phone line for the fax, make SURE the phone line is run through a serge protector. Ask me how I know! :oops: Yes, lightning took the fax part out of my new 4 in 1 printer. :cry:
05-28-2011, 05:40 PM
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Originally Posted by justwannaquilt
LOL This is what I do late of a night. My printer is in the bedroom, well my husband would wake up if I went back there got in the file cabinet got paper out put it in the printer (can't keep paper in the printer the kids thinks its drawing paper) started printing....It wouldn't be good. So I just trace the screen. Makes a great light box doesn't it?
Good luck with the pattern.
Good luck with the pattern.
06-25-2011, 07:40 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.
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