OMFG, I hate you, Canon printer!
I have to print something. Now. Desperately. And we're out of regular cyan ink.
This should not be a problem since I want to print in grayscale, except that Canon thinks that when I select "grayscale" and "fast," I still want enriched gray tones so it insists on using the color cartridges too. No. I don't want rich gray tones. I want to get this fucking pic printed fast on plain paper.
If we take out the cartridge, the printer throws an error. If we replace it with the nearly empty photo cyan cartridge we have, the printer throws an error saying that cartridge isn't compatible with the other color cartridges in the display. If we take out ALL the color cartridges, again, the printer errors out.
So now we're getting ready to go to Fry's because Dale's pissed enough that he wants to just buy a new printer. Otherwise, we're going to spend $50-$80 buying ink cartridges so we can get out of a $40 parking ticket.
Granted, we will use these cartridges for more than just printing this, but at this point, we've already spent way more on ink than the printer cost. (That's how they get ya. Inexpensive printers. Liquid gold in the cartridges.)
And, yes, I looked into refilling the cartridges. Not really a viable option since our printer uses microchipped cartridges to monitor the ink level, and refilling a cartridge can cause this to wack out. When the printer figures out you've refilled a cartridge, you'll either have to replace it with a new official cartridge or it will void your warranty and disable the ink level monitoring (and this is done in the printer's memory, no getting around it).
Fuck you, Canon. And you too, Epson and HP 'cause I know you guys do this too.
This should not be a problem since I want to print in grayscale, except that Canon thinks that when I select "grayscale" and "fast," I still want enriched gray tones so it insists on using the color cartridges too. No. I don't want rich gray tones. I want to get this fucking pic printed fast on plain paper.
If we take out the cartridge, the printer throws an error. If we replace it with the nearly empty photo cyan cartridge we have, the printer throws an error saying that cartridge isn't compatible with the other color cartridges in the display. If we take out ALL the color cartridges, again, the printer errors out.
So now we're getting ready to go to Fry's because Dale's pissed enough that he wants to just buy a new printer. Otherwise, we're going to spend $50-$80 buying ink cartridges so we can get out of a $40 parking ticket.
Granted, we will use these cartridges for more than just printing this, but at this point, we've already spent way more on ink than the printer cost. (That's how they get ya. Inexpensive printers. Liquid gold in the cartridges.)
And, yes, I looked into refilling the cartridges. Not really a viable option since our printer uses microchipped cartridges to monitor the ink level, and refilling a cartridge can cause this to wack out. When the printer figures out you've refilled a cartridge, you'll either have to replace it with a new official cartridge or it will void your warranty and disable the ink level monitoring (and this is done in the printer's memory, no getting around it).
Fuck you, Canon. And you too, Epson and HP 'cause I know you guys do this too.