Jesus, you ever been inside one of those office depots?
I think it would cheaper to fly to china and back.
I made the mistake of buying transparent sticker paper from them once. I thought, hey, the package says everything I want to the exact specifications I need. The price is ridiculously expensive, so it must work.
Nope... nothing more than junk marked up 1000%.
by possumMy printer worked fine then suddenly began printing blank documents from word editing programs. I tried with two different computers, one PC and one Mac, and several different programs (Text, Pages, Word, WordPad, Abi). It prints PDFs and images with no trouble.
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No ink? Look if the settings of the word processors isn't set to an inkless setting like Black/White or Color. It used to switch my preferred color setting to the empty one.
Only from word?
Those inkjet cartridges are the MOST EXPENSIVE THING known to man.
They have artificially inflated the price ink cartridges to fullfill consumers desire to hold hardcopy of what they want in their hands.
Try clearing the nozzle. Maybe it is blocked with something? If you have the receipt, take the faulty cartridge back to the overpriced big box store where you purchased it.
Also, even though in nearly every single program it will default back to the high quality setting, try exporting to PDF from every program before printing, open the exported pdf in adobe acrobat, and set adobe PDF to print ink saving versions.
When your cartridge runs out, you can always get raw ink, drill down into the old cartridge and pour in new ink. Hope that helps.
Bet you knew all that before you committed to a decades long purchase spree of color and greyscale cartridges that often times exceed 50.00 and last only a couple months, eh?
There are stores that have opened up and can pay rent, by refilling cartridges.
Hey you know what? I bet most programs default back to the high quality print setting due to some abstraction layer and "quirk" of windows programming interfaces.
That's what you get... a life time of misery, pain and suffering, all in the name of making peripheral cartels profit...
I mean if you've ever read letters from people in those companies as to why they will not "fix" something, it basically boils down to, "why should we?"
Get ready for the consumer price index to skyrocket...
Be cheaper to raise your own cattle soon enough...
The price of a burger combo in my area has doubled in less than a decade, easy...
http://business.time.com/2013/03/12/if-theres-no-inflation-why-are-prices-up-so-much/
Last week, I ran out of ink for my printer and ordered some more online. My computer automatically pulled up the previous order, and I was shocked to see that the price of the ink cartridges I was buying had gone up 25%.
Look at that tiny little dip in the consumer price index. That's what happens when you scare the fuck out of industry and they take a paltry cut in their profits to spur on spending.
Look at it this way you fools. For every dollar your saving now with compound interest, you're in fact saving half of what it is going to be worth in a decades time. Enjoy!!
I first googled the problem, then tried 10 variations. I found people with a software setting problem opposite to mine: blank pages from PDFs but normal documents from word processors.
It was not in trial version and I tried to repair. I un and reinstalled Office.
My problem seems to be printer, the document printed from a word processor with another printer. This printer prints PDFs and images from all attempted PDFs and image programs but no attempted text or documents from word processing programs on both a pc and Mac. I changed through several common fonts.
It even goes through the motions of printing.
I appreciate your advice ^_^
Marsupial.
