Testing our printer.

Welcome to ay-cee's printing centre.

So we'd decided to put the printer through the wringer and see how many photos it can churn out before the colour cartridge empties...no, we tell a lie. We'd offered to print out any digital pictures mum took on her vacation, still being rather proud of our printer. Except...mum wanted to have all the shots printed, and the count was 133 photos! One hundred thirty-three!

So...preparations. Went to 1U today to buy A4-sized HP Everyday Semi-Gloss Photo Paper, a black ink cartridge and a colour ink cartridge and a book to while the time printing (we had to make use of our MPH RM5 voucher before it expires).

Once home we started printing. This was...some 7 o'clock we gather.

All beds not slept in were utilized in the drying of the prints.

Well...our colour cartridge does some 60-odd prints before giving up and printing somewhat sepia-filtered shots. Sob. Thank goodness bought a new cartridge after all. So swapped that and continued.

Was around 10.30pm when the new colour cartridge also gave out! Waaah! Expensive! Expensive! And I haven't finished printing everything yet! There was about 15 more pictures!

Calculate this: 133 prints at, say, 65 sen apiece. That's RM86.45. Give or take a bit due to service charges or offer prices that's still about RM85 lah.

Now, three colour cartridges, RM70 a cartridge. One black-ink cartridge, RM50. A4-size photo paper, RM44. Wahlaupiang RM304!!!

No more, no more...shall only allow selected shots to be printed next time. Our heart (and wallet) hurts.