Monday, May 14, 2007

Here We Go Again

Yes, once again technology is fucking me sideways at the worst possible time. Things were just going ok when the HP 130 designjet printer I use to print my maps started acting up this afternoon and I am not sure why. I called the HP support line and they were useless as tits on a boar.

They were having me go through the usual routines for diagnostic. I kept telling them I hadn't changed a damn thing, it was printing fine then when I came back from lunch it stopped printing the bottom portion of the map. They told me that the USB cable I was using was longer than recommended. I should upgrade to newer printer driver. Of course this wasn't an issue with the previous 200 prints I had made over the last week.

Considering we are talking Windows based computing I cannot discount some OS issue, but in the middle of the day? So I have to get after it in the morning and see if I can somehow make it work. I will cross my fingers, seems like as good an idea as anything else right now.