Fun with printer juice!

[Blade]

So someone calls to ask whether or not we could refill his printer cartridge. I ask what kind, he says "HP." I ask "ok, what number is it?" and he reads off some long number- part number maybe? No idea.

I tell him that the ones we refill are all 2 digit numbers, so maybe there's a number like that on it somewhere?

He says, "well, it's a laser printer..."

... I tell him that's ok, we just need to know the big numbers that are probably on top of the ink cartridge itself.

He asks: "oh, it's... an.. ink cartridge?" - which makes part of my brain shut down so I can answer him nicely, because that part of my brain?


Is busy hollerin' "What did you THINK we were gonna refill it with, LASERS???"

[zombiequeen]

Could you refill this with lazers, and then put some extra lazers in this bag here for me...I need them for my cat.

[Ironclad Alibi]

Let's not make light of his ignorance. We might be asked to tone it down.

[DGoddessChardonnay]

Quoth Ironclad Alibi

Let's not make light of his ignorance. We might be asked to tone it down.

And anything we may come up with after this may pale in comparison . .

[Chromatix]

Or we may be forced to resort to dark humour.

[dalesys]

We may have to suffragette...


Equal frights for Inky!

[LingualMonkey]

Please, don't leave us in the dark. What was the resolution? Ink case you couldn't tell, many of us are dye-ing to know.

[roothorick]

To be fair, laser printers use toner, not ink. Toner is a dry powder, ink is, well, wet. I'd probably utter much the same thing after hearing it being called "toner" all the time. (They don't actually use lasers either; they're called laser printers because the first units to come to America were marketed as "HP Laserjets".)

[Der Cute]

And when toner gets low, you give it the shakedown.

[dalesys]

Do I have to turn the printer over to make backup copies?