Printer Pain

Ok, seriously, in this day and age it really shouldn't take 6 hours to print something, right?

SIX. HOURS.
For a one page flyer.
ONE PAGE.

I hate the printer at my bookstore *cough*HP OFFICEJET 4300*cough*. Aside from the fact that it holds, oh, I don't know, 1 teaspoon of ink that runs out every 3rd printed page, it is just a pain in the a** for such a simplistic, unassuming looking little printer. For example, every time you change a printer cartridge, you have to wait for the cartridges to realign (which is a lot longer than it sounds), manually feed a blank sheet of paper in, have it print off lines and dots & some Aborigine clicks (yes, using half the new cartridge you just replaced), and then MANUALLY RE-FEED the piece of paper back into the machine so that it can do some alien-life-form reading of the dashes and dots.


This is just to CHANGE THE CARTRIDGE.

OH, And, guess what? If you make a mistake (like, say, sneezing on the machine or making any sudden movements) while it's going through this convenient little process then it will freeze and cause errors.

WHICH NEVER CLEAR OUT OF THE MEMORY.
FOR DAYS.
AND DAYS.
AND DAYS.


It only took me 2 days to print my 1-page flyer.


Wonder how much an old fashioned printing press would run me?