Tuesday, February 24, 2009

When electronics fight back

Our Konica Minolta printer has been warning us since August (yes, you read that right) that our toner cartridge was running out of ink. I ordered a replacement, but since the quality of the printouts was still functional, I didn't insert it.

The print quality has degraded somewhat, but it's still adequate for our purposes, and given the cost of toner we decided to milk this cartridge as long as possible.

Apparently, the printer doesn't like that.

Now, when we print, we get a full-screen message warning us that our toner cartridge "is completely end of lifed." We have to close the error message before the printer will complete the job.

Uppity printer.

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