My House of Ink

The printer I wanted for Christmas was a bit too expensive, and with the economy how it is, I wasn’t too disappointed when I didn’t get it. However, a friend of the family got a new printer, and ended up giving me their old one! I was a little skeptical because I didn’t know what kind of printer it was, and I really wanted a printer that I could use to print photos from my digital camera. It turns out the hand-me-down printer was an HP!  I was relieved to know it was from a reliable brand, and I also knew from looking at the printer it wasn’t that old.

I was able to print stunning digital photos with my new printer, and all I had to do was purchase new HP toner cartridges. HP has been manufacturing printers for such a long time that finding the toner cartridge was a breeze as well. Though I wasn’t granted my Christmas wish, it all worked out in the end!

It happened like this; I had been drafting a detailed proposal for a dramatic restructuring to how our financial department worked. In this tough economy, I felt like we were wasting a lot of time using archaic procedures, and work wasn’t being done in an efficient manner. I had my proposal ready to go for a meeting with the managers and directors, I hit the print button, and the black ink warning comes up on the computer screen!  I panicked, because I had no idea where to find more Lexmark ink cartridges in the office, and the meeting was in just a few minutes.

In hindsight, I should have printed out the proposal much earlier, but at that time, I needed to fix the problem in a hurry. I work for a small manufacturing company, so our office isn’t the kind of place you find random office supplies sitting around. I ended up finding an old printer in another part of the office; I yanked out the Lexmark ink cartridge, and brought it back to my computer.  Then I printed with all haste!  Thankfully, it all worked out in the end, and my proposal went over very well!