After two years of infrequent use my Brother laser printer finally spew a paper blank. Buying original brand cartridge would cost me roughly P1,900 but since there are cheap ink refilling stations at the mall, I decided to take on the cheaper option at P900.

So I brought the ink cartridge for refill at the station, I was wondering how they’ll gonna do it – the schema was, the ink guys would weigh the empty cartridge first under your nose then they’ll refill it with the powdered ink, secure it and weigh it again – there should be a little increase in weight to know if they’ve fill it in or they’ve just con you.

The first several pages were actually good; the next few pages already had ink streaks on the papers, it looked dirty. But contrary to our inkjet ones, it actually printed like the original.

Anyway, I’ve learned my lesson – that’s I think the most important thing. That refill shop actually had lots on their shelves – print related, tape receipts for Epson TM-T88V, blank CDs, photo papers, they even have this package for printing shop starters, I actually prefer this kind of business – your inventory won’t rot.

That’s all for now folks, thanks for dropping by.

“O dear, don’t tire out my machine”

Ever heard of these words? If you hadn’t then you better snoop around our house, this is a normal part of everyday conversation in my household, having employed machines to make our life easiest and less friction with humans.

For one thing, I bet,  not one human household in this age of Androids are devoid of machine, from the kitchen, to the bathroom practically every inch of the house has its matching device.

And in my household bulk of our machines are in computing, and mind you they’re all over. One of our most exploited e-employees, other than our coffeemaker of course, is my Brother HL2140 printer, we call it Scrat, it would sound scrat, scrat every time it spew out paper, so hence the name, I beg your indulgence but I’m one of those women who is crazy enough to name gadgets so it would sound like they’re part of a big homo family.

Anyway, this machine has served us efficiently since 2008; it has not failed me much other than eating papers which I admit annoy me sometimes. But I must say over-all performance of this printer is superb. I had changed its ink cartridge since it came home only once and had delivered around 4,000 legal size print-outs, much of it during the presidential election, our candidate loss though but it wasn’t Scrat’s fault.

Today, although recent models of this machine is tempting, I won’t exchange this not unless those Printers are laser colored ones come in with fax, with scanner, with copier, with coffeemaker, with washer, with rice cooker and an electronic mind reader, that would just print my mind if I refuse to talk to my husband.

How’s that for a model, novel, eh!