Low ink warning in Snow Leopard
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From: Martin S Taylor on 13 Jan 2010 10:12 I've just tried to print something and for the first time using SL, the ink is running low. On the print dialog there's a violently unsightly amber button marked Supplies... which, when I click, takes me directly to Apple's US shop (sorry, 'store'). I'm then taken through a checklist to find out what printer I'm using. Out of curiosity, I followed this chain, to discover it doesn't work - it leads nowhere. Horrible, commercial, inelegant, US-centric, wrong... Martin S Taylor
From: Sara on 13 Jan 2010 11:24 In article <0001HW.C7739340000FF6A3B01029BF(a)text.news.virginmedia.com>, Martin S Taylor <mst(a)hRyEpMnOoVtEiTsHm.cIo.uSk> wrote: > I've just tried to print something and for the first time using SL, the ink > is running low. On the print dialog there's a violently unsightly amber > button marked Supplies... which, when I click, takes me directly to Apple's > US shop (sorry, 'store'). > > I'm then taken through a checklist to find out what printer I'm using. Out of > curiosity, I followed this chain, to discover it doesn't work - it leads > nowhere. > > Horrible, commercial, inelegant, US-centric, wrong... > > Martin S Taylor I've been using Snow Leopard both at home and at work for months. I use an Epson inkjet at home and another at work, plus there are also the Phasers at work, and I haven't seen that button come up for any of them when they're low on ink (thank heavens, or I may have had to kill someone). -- Sara Cuddler of rats, cats and husband
From: Jaimie Vandenbergh on 13 Jan 2010 14:40 On Wed, 13 Jan 2010 15:12:00 GMT, Martin S Taylor <mst(a)hRyEpMnOoVtEiTsHm.cIo.uSk> wrote: >I've just tried to print something and for the first time using SL, the ink >is running low. On the print dialog there's a violently unsightly amber >button marked Supplies... which, when I click, takes me directly to Apple's >US shop (sorry, 'store'). Coo. I don't get that with my Canon inkjet or HP laser. >I'm then taken through a checklist to find out what printer I'm using. Out of >curiosity, I followed this chain, to discover it doesn't work - it leads >nowhere. > >Horrible, commercial, inelegant, US-centric, wrong... Indeed. I vaguely recall some Windows drivers - probably HP inkjet - doing something very similar, years ago. Never worked. Cheers - Jaimie -- Women's breasts are like electric train sets. They're meant for kids, but usually it's the fathers who wind up playing with them.
From: Pd on 13 Jan 2010 15:49 Martin S Taylor <mst(a)hRyEpMnOoVtEiTsHm.cIo.uSk> wrote: > I've just tried to print something and for the first time using SL, the ink > is running low. On the print dialog there's a violently unsightly amber > button marked Supplies... which, when I click, takes me directly to Apple's > US shop (sorry, 'store'). What printer? -- Pd
From: Rowland McDonnell on 13 Jan 2010 16:38
Martin S Taylor <mst(a)hRyEpMnOoVtEiTsHm.cIo.uSk> wrote: > I've just tried to print something and for the first time using SL, the ink > is running low. On the print dialog there's a violently unsightly amber > button marked Supplies... which, when I click, takes me directly to Apple's > US shop (sorry, 'store'). I didn't have that precise notification when my toner was running low - got the warning and links to things slightly differently, but in the print dialgue and it worked okay. Sounds like it's a printer driver specific thingy, that. HP LJ1320n here. Not gonna buy another HP for all sorts of reasons, but the thing does just keep on churning out pages without often suffering hiccups and the fact that it's PS means I don't have to put up with another fuckin' 'orrible HP printer driver. > I'm then taken through a checklist to find out what printer I'm using. Out of > curiosity, I followed this chain, to discover it doesn't work - it leads > nowhere. > > Horrible, commercial, inelegant, US-centric, wrong... Do remember that as far as the average US businessman is concerned, the 96% of the human race that lives outside the USA is an unimportant minority group in the world that gets attention only when the important people - the Great American Public - has been serviced, and of course all us little foreigners will be perfectly happy with whatever works for the Great American Public. That's why we used to have to buy US-letter-sized fanfold paper for our computer printers... Rowland. -- Remove the animal for email address: rowland.mcdonnell(a)dog.physics.org Sorry - the spam got to me http://www.mag-uk.org http://www.bmf.co.uk UK biker? Join MAG and the BMF and stop the Eurocrats banning biking |