Cyan
I have air obstructing my cyan tube. It's all because the stupid chips in the aftermarket cartridges don't communicate well with the HP 5000. You see Hewlett Packard doesn't want you using any kind of ink except their own private concoction. OEM or Original Equipment Manufactured ink is a way of keeping proprietary rights to ink cartridge sales. There are companies that sell refilled cartridges at discount prices. We get our ink from one such company. When I first took this job it was all kosher using this thing called a Staedler Board. The Staedler Board would fool the machine into thinking that the aftermarket cartridges were the real deal. Everything worked swell. I am a firm believer in "If it ain't broke don't fix it," but some people just don't know when to leave well enough alone. About ten months ago they called me from my supplier and told me that I could take the Staedler Board off the machine that they were switching to this new chip technology that was right inside the cartridge. So we went through this big process of sending back the cartridges I had on the shelf that worked with the S.B. and replacing them with this grand new cheating technology even though their was essentially nothing wrong with the current method. And the last ten months have been an all out fucking struggle. The light cyan and light magenta have never worked properly. Sometimes those stupid chips won't tell the printer how much ink they have in them. As a result, the digital readout reports incorrectly the amount of ink in a given cartridge. Well sometime yesterday the cyan cartridge ran out, empty style and the printer was telling me that it was half full. So I was replacing printheads like a madman and I was only getting temporarily positive results. I replaced five printheads before finally manually checking the ink levels in the cartridges and sure enough the cyan was bone dry, I'm talking light-weight here. So I thought I had it all sorted out after replacing the empty cartridge but apparently the line has an air bubble or its lost suction or some damn fool thing and now I'm dead in the water until they send me a line cleaner print head.And this my friends is a prime example of why I don't blog from my daily life.
Fucking boring eh?
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