Quick and dirty

[valiskeogh.livejournal.com]

i just had a question from a Luser that i just had to tell you about

"So will that color printer also print black and white?"

aaaannnnddd.... i'm out...

Valis

Comments

[margaretc.livejournal.com]

Woo-hoo!!!!!! This totally made my day.
Thank you.

[samwize.livejournal.com]

"Yes, but the white ink is VERY expensive, so keep it to a minimum..."

[samwize.livejournal.com]

s'ankoo.

LOLz

[irishmasms.livejournal.com]

Nope, to print B&W you have to use this dot matrix printer here....

[snarl817.livejournal.com]

Nope. If you want a black and white printout, you have to make your document dark colored, print it out, then make a copy on the black and white copier.

:D

[moopet.livejournal.com]

Well, I think the answer, "yes and no" is 100% accurate. I would personally just say that, then leave immediately.

[tripartite.livejournal.com]

Tell them, "no. Black and white aren't colors."

Then put them in a round room and tell them to sit in the corner.

[hikari-neko.livejournal.com]

Cylindrical round or spherical round?

[tripartite.livejournal.com]

Technically? Spherical round. Then there are no corners at all.

Practically? A cylindrical room will work since most people think of "corners" as "where walls meet each other" and not "where the wall ends" but your milage may vary.

[hikari-neko.livejournal.com]

My mileage varies a lot - the devil is in the details :)

[tripartite.livejournal.com]

Fair enough. :)

[lillyflowers.livejournal.com]

I your answer wins this thread. I'm also going to chuckle about it for a while. :-)

[tripartite.livejournal.com]

*bows* I'm glad I have amused. :)

[hikari-neko.livejournal.com]

"...yes."

I think the pause is important.

Because you're special

[wherdafux-d-cat.livejournal.com]

'Yes. Management sprang for the black and white upgrade especially for you.'

[mouser.livejournal.com]

I've actually told them "No, you have to use the BULK printer (where toner is cheaper) for B&W."

Psychological warfare.

[amberite.livejournal.com]

A valid question 12+ years ago. I remember having color printers that could *only* print using ink cartridges that mixed all the inks to make black.

Nowadays? laff.

[buckaction.livejournal.com]

afaik at least some, if not most, still will do that when the black cartridge runs dry.

[amberite.livejournal.com]

I believe that is the case. I seem to remember at least one color printer where it was the *only option*, though.

[hikari-neko.livejournal.com]

A lot of printers do it unless you explicitly tell them to print and B&W only. It always pays to set the printer in B&W only mode, if you're just printing black and white text, just to make sure it doesn't use any colour - especially when colour on your printer costs a fortune, like our colour laser.

[buckaction.livejournal.com]

And thus, the reason why I own and non color laser.

Black toner cartridges last forever ;)

[hikari-neko.livejournal.com]

I tend to send B&W jobs to the combination laser printer/photocopier/scanner. It's duplex, same as the colour laser, but it's cheaper when printing out pages of text and it can print on A3 as well. I think it's faster, too.

[karopanda.livejournal.com]

Yeah, why did they even need to ask? Obviously black isn't a color.

[the-s-guy.livejournal.com]

"You mean like the luxury black-and-white modules that the executive printers use? Well, I do have a spare down in the basement, but geez, man, I could get in real trouble if I... for example... installed a luxury item in your printer where nobody could ever find it."

*pause, wait for bribe*