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]

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?

[fireheart]

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".)

I thought it was because the image was reproduced by the direct scanning of a laser beam across the photoreceptor? :confsued:

[Blade]

To be fair, laser printers use toner, not ink.

Oh, sure- I was just trying to determine whether he had a type we could refill or not in the first place. He may not have, but somehow, I didn't get the feeling that "ink vs toner" was really the issue that was confusing him. ;-)



(... man I wish I had a good pun here... heh)

[rvdammit]

http://computer.howstuffworks.com/laser-printer.htm possible has the best explanation, but quickly the laser is used to to form the document image on a drum which then transers to the paper before the fusr fixes it in place.

[Zaiida]

*laughs hysterically* best thread title I've seen in a while.

Why did photocopier splooge spring to mind? and no I have no idea what I'm on about.