How strange...

 Hello fellow crafters, 

 If you are wondering why I haven't posted a photo of a card made with the frogs, its because my printer decided to mess up.   Let me explain,  we purchased our printer in 2018, it was an HP Envy.  We decided it might be a good thing if we signed up for the monthly ink delivery plan,  which was about 4.99 a month, based on how many pages that were printed.    Ink delivery what a concept.   After all who wants to pay outrageous prices for ink refill cartridges.    Anyway, over the years things ran smoothly.   Until about a month ago we noticed that a white line showing up in photos that were printed, we tried everything we knew to do to find out why this was happening.   So, with this going on we figured that it was time to stop the ink delivery,  we received an email stating that since we had decided to cut off the ink delivery that our printer would be shutting down on February the 18th.   Whatt!!   How could this happen??    I didn't think ahead of time to "rush print" a bunch of things.    We've always been able to get other printers in the past to work again by resetting them.   Which is what hubby tried to do with this one, but nothing he tried worked.  After reading and researching online how to trouble shoot this type of printer after being "forced" to shut down by a delivery service,  we then found out in order to reset the printer we needed to put in the original ink cartridges that came with the printer.   Hmmmm...  does anyone ever think about keeping empty cartridges from that many years ago??   Umm no.      We just think it is very strange that a company can "control" the use of a printer by simply cutting off the use of the ink.  

This post is just based on our findings, and what we tried to do to make the printer work again.   But hey, the printer was probably on its way out anyway...     what I really need is a printer that does well in printing out old photos and such.   We are thinking of getting an Epson Tank Printer.   I think that's the brand.     And yes, we will be paying those "wonderful prices" for ink.   ;)  

Until next post,  hugs, Mary