Today the printer, which almost always prints just black things, says it’s out of GREY (not black) and YELLOW ink. I have a supply of yellow, but not grey. i want to use up the second-hand inventory of ink I have before abandoning this printer, but I have to decide which colors to buy before giving up. Kind of annoying. I want to get a black and white laser printer next.
Printers have become far less frustrating than they used to be.
I used to have to deal with printer paper with perforated edge sections you had to keep intact and then usually tore off after printing, and keep that feeding through correctly or else it could de-rail and get stuck.
And I had a nice “daisy wheel” printer which would type things, but eventually it got so that as it heated up in use, it got weaker and the typing would get fainter and fainter. When I stayed up all night writing papers, i have to watch the fading strength and ration how many drafts I could print so that the final draft would be dark enough to turn in by the deadline.