2 Blisters and 1 Cut | FUCK!
2 blisters and 1 cut on my right hand and lots of multi coloured mess…it sounds like I have done a bit of hard graft for a change, nope it wasn’t that. But It felt like it.
In order to save some money…I had to earn those savings that I was making the good old fashioned way with some blood, sweat and a thankfully only a few tears. Oh and lots of swear words, I cant forget those. Gordon Ramsay would have understood the mental turmoil that I was going through.
My Cannon printer ran oot of ink. Nightmare…and I’m sure most of you are aware how it goes. You buy a printer for £50 quid and the fuckers then want to charge you £30 for ink cartridges. Fucking crooks. They could probably charge you 3 quid for them and still make 2.75 quid profit, but for many companies nowadays its all about profits and more profits. And they don’t even fill those cartridges up properly either.
I purchased a couple of ink refill kits a few months ago from ebay for £6.99. A black one and a colour one. These made in China babies were gonna save me some serious money. I would be able to fill up my Cannon cartridges around 6 times. I liked the sound of that. And who cares if the print quality is only 95% of its original quality. Its not as if I’m printing photos from my computer, I can go and do that at Asda for next to nothing and the quality is far better than anything my home printer could ever do and if I need real quality printing work done, I go to a professional printers.
I read the instructions of the ink refill kits, well I did once I found a picture of an ink cartridge that resembled mine and a version that was in English. It seemed straight forward enough. The wee diagram indicated where I needed to drill the holes and then all I had to do was use the syringe and fill them up with ink and plug the hole. A piece of cake…
It seemed like a simple enough task to bore a hole through the cartridge, but the little tool that came in the ink refill pack was fucking useless. It would have struggled to drill through butter, let alone hard plastic. If only I had one of my electric drills I could have drilled the four holes in less than a minute. But due to my travels and adventures in recent years, half my life is still stuck in Barbados and the other half is back home in Aberdeen. I only have a few basic tools such as screw drivers, pliers and a hammer.
I started off with the black cartridge, which only required 1 hole to be drilled. It took me about 5 minutes of some serious effort. But eventually I reached the hollow part of the cartridge. I couldn’t believe how much effort this shit took. I filled up the cartridge and plugged the wee hole, and in the process got my hands covered in black ink.
It was a similar story with the colour cartridge, apart from that I needed to bore three holes in this one, what a complete nightmare that was. Both the hand held drilling tools gradually become even more blunt and one of them even fell to bits. Somehow I managed to get the 3 holes drilled and in the process I ended up with a couple of nice blisters and nasty little cut on my thumb, which was spilling blood like it was ink.
By the time I had both the cartridges filled up with ink, my hands were covered in various colours of ink and blood was all over the place. And of course getting the ink off my fingers and hands was no easy task. It took it fair bit of scrubbing and then some more scrubbing. Try scrubbing blisters and a cut, I can assure you it aint no fun.
After I got myself cleaned up I was feeling a bit happier with myself. It was maybe a pain in the ass filling up those cartridges, but hell I had saved some money. I switched on my printer and all it was saying was you need to replace your ink cartridge. WTF they were full to the brim. Cannon wasn’t happy that I didn’t want to make them richer. I cussed and then cussed some more. I thought about throwing my printer out of the window. But I did the smart thing and Googled my problem.
Would you believe that all it took to fix my little problem and defeat the corporate giant Cannon, was as simple as holding down the stop button for a measly 6 seconds. That was it. 6 seconds later my printer was working like new. You aint as smart as you think Canon!
I had finally triumphed over adversity and Cannon. I had beaten the devil and saved myself some money and best of all the print quality was just as good. In fact I think it even improved slightly! And all it had cost me was some blood, sweat, tears and ink stained hands. At least when I fill them up next time I wont have to drill those dam holes again.
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