Cheap Scanner
I need (ha, what a word) a scanner. With the current price of gas and needing to be able to photocopy important things before they go in the mail, a scanner seemed like a good idea. I had a $25 off of $75+ coupon from Staples for being a Business Rewards customer (we used to do a bunch of printing there) so I looked at their website. Scanners run $80 and up, but multifunction machines (scanner, printer, copier, fax) start as low as $60. I guess all that color ink will subsidize the cost.
Anyway, I ordered the cheapest machine over the weekend (got the free shipping on orders over $50 and discovered a $20 rebate during checkout, so it should come to about $40 total). It arrived on Tuesday and I just went to set it up to scan something. Plugged it in, beep, beep, beep. You can’t do anything until you insert four ink cartridges (black, yellow, cyan, magenta). Literally nothing can be done, I tried holding down the power button but it won’t power off, just beeps.
Okay, I dig those out of the box. Insert all four, and it goes into some sort of ink setup process. I check the manual…that will last four minutes! Four whole minutes! Plenty of time to write this post.