It always seems that I have things to do.

Lately it has been mailing.

Both boxes are scheduled for delivery at your house tomorrow,

Thursday. They require no signature.   The internet doesn’t

show any movement since they arrived in Savannah, however,

so who knows?

I’m afraid I have potential bad news to send along with this,

tho’ . . . that day we packed it up I was so frenzied to get

to Island in time to send it off, that I lost all my usual attention

to detail when sending off a printer; i.e., in addition to leaving

the USB cable and the new color cartridge outside of the

box –for you to worry about.  What I did NOT do was to

remove the two ink cartridges from the place they’re mounted

inside the printer.  That means they were free to slide back

and forth, side-to-side, with every movement of the box.

I have no idea what that means.  At the least, the cartridges

will be damaged so they need to be replaced: each cartridge

contains the ‘print head’ that may not work right.  Maybe

worse, ink will be splattered all over inside that part of the

printer –and who knows where else?!  My hunch is that the

‘carriage’ parts that hold the cartridges will be OK.  The owners

manual has good illustrations for loading the cartridges,

running the alignment test, etc.

In case tho have a color cartridge but not a black one.

Walmart carries them (best price, of course).  I’ve used

refilled ones from my local printer service shop, lots

cheaper and they work just fine.  (however, both cartridges

that are rattling around in the printer now are authentic

HP ones, not refills.)

So,  a multi-function machine, after all.

To hook it to the computer will be more complicated, however.

Not sure whether the CD is in the box or not –but no matter,

because the software driver would be too out-of-date for

computer, probably.  The  “software driver” from the internet?
Here’s the routine I’ve used:  go to www.hp.com   Go down

the right side, click on “Software drivers and downloads”

For the machine, enter/choose “PSC 1210 all-in-one”

Next, choose (click on) your operating system, such as

Windows XP (On that same screen, farther down, notice

“Troubleshooting software and driver installation issues,”

in case you run into a glitch and need to look for help.)

On the next screen, there are choices for things to download.

First off, click on “HP Full Solution Software Driver” then follow

instructions for how to install it, so the computer will talk to

the PSC 1210.  After that’s all done, I suggest you come back

to this screen and ask it to check whether you need any of

the other updates there.

The computer can probably have more than one printer

connected, you just  have to tell it which one’s the default

when you’re printing.
I’ve  kept  this trip to be in touch with folks because of a

bet  . . . so I was planning to do it, sooner or later.

Not sure about next year.  I’d sure like to try in-town more

than the isolation I felt on end of that island.  Maybe I

should rent one in town and you could come in to visit me?

No—I do not have the same fever, just fantasizing!  (and to

each his own, as far as location is concerned –it sure was a

good place to let the kids do their own thing, with relative

safely.)

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