Current mood:	frustrated
Entry tags:	aargh, technology

AAAAAAAAAAAAARGh technology sucks
I hate networked printers. Specifically, I hate my father's printer, which both my brother and I can access through the wireless network. This would be a wonderful thing if the printer in question wasn't Satan's creation. I firmly believe that there is in fact a tiny demon residing in this piece of technology.

Now, being able to print from anywhere in the house sounds lovely. Yes, my room is only next door to the printer room, but it's still nice. However, this particular printer requires that you come in and remind it to be awake- even if it's already turned on. Therefore negating the 'not in the room' part of the printing. And heaven forbid it be out of ink. One time, I was trying to print a black text document, and the thing was out of yellow ink. This was the procedure:
Printer: I'm out of yellow ink.
Me: (thinking) I'm trying to print in black and white, this affects me how?
Printer: Would you like to print with just the black cartridge?
Me: Yes.
Printer: Oh, well, you have to come press a button to tell me that.
Me: *climbs up stairs, presses button*
Printer: Now you need to go back to your computer and press another button there telling the computer that I said it's ok.

Sigh.

Then, tonight, I tried to print something like 3 paragraphs. This turned out to be a problem somehow, because the printer and my computer are evidently not speaking. After three tries, I give up and try saving the file to a USB drive and transferring it. Why didn't I just do that in the first place? Because I'm lazy and hate having to resave in other formats (I use OpenOffice, not Word).
So, I save it in RTF figuring dad's computer (which is wired to the printer) could handle that. I'm mostly right- if I didn't care about the formatting, it could handle it. Turns out dad doesn't have Office installed, just WordPad. Fine. Remove drive, resave as PDF, try again. In this amount of time, I could have just hand-copied the stupid journal. Bah.