There needs to be a better way to print one label. My better way is that I have my student worker deal with it, but it is much more efficient to either hand write or type one off envelopes.
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Callaluna, is that a Lexmark printer? Because I have the very same issues with mine. The wireless does not work, the ink cartridges last about four days and then it costs $80 to replace them, and now it's decided to not recognize my computer at all. I unplugged it and bought a simple B&W laser printer. Screw it. All I ever print are invoices and return labels anymore, anyway; what do I need expensive color ink for?
I have often wished for a typewriter again when I just want one label, but I don't feel like going through a whole rigamarole with the printer and Word label, and which number are these labels? I just want to label a file. That's all.
...and now I'm that person. Wow.
I'm that person too! Except I have a typewriter. It's my old manual typewriter from when I was a kid. It needs new ribbons now, but they do still make them! I love it. I recommend them to anyone who ever just needs one label, or to quickly type up one thing.
No, it's HP. And we got it just last summer and were so excited to replace our old HP which was even more irritating. Does anybody else miss dot matrix printers?
Not dot matrix, really, but I do miss printers that just f*cking worked.
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What msbelle said. At work we all have Brother P-touch label makers.
I don't think I could get them to go for buying a label maker. It has taken me 5 years to convince them that printing one label to a printer shared by the entire floor when your office and computer are far away from the printer is really quite difficult. I used to have to send my student down with the labels, have her call me, and then press print. Now I am using the color printer in my office even though it apparently wastes money because the ink costs more. I am supposedly getting a black and white printer soon, but it has been 2 years since we were first approved.
What msbelle said. At work we all have Brother P-touch label makers.
I might could look in to that. Newfangled technology to replace what the oldfangled technology did just fine. OK, I'm not really that cranky about technology. Clearly. I'm here via it. I still want a typewriter. Nostalgia.
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Thank you. I could buy it myself, but it would never get approved here because if I had one, all the other AA's would want one. I might be able to spin it as a savings over the cost of a printer, though, since I really only want the printer to make labels!