The trials of home printing

I needed to spend time today preparing and printing ready to mount prints for the Tynedale Photo Group on Monday.

I have a panel of 6 prints entitled North East Landscapes. They are colour prints.

When I did some printing a few weeks ago, I had to coax the printer into playing ball. Those frustrations are in the past, I told myself. Then the printer decided that it needed a new cartridge of Very Light Magenta. I popped it in, but it failed to recognise it. Switching off and on again worked.

Then I saw that the yellow one was running low. Time to order new supplies. I worked out which ones I needed and searched online only to find that the original Epson cartridges I use are no longer manufactured.

I was NOT happy. My printer is a few years old, but it produces good prints. I spent a fruitless hour looking for cartridges.

I also had a set of documentary prints to do. I had decided to print them in colour, although I usually like mono for documentary. Here are some of them. They had to be mono because I could not risk running out of yellow. The printer will not work if one cartridge is empty.

These images are from a farm sale about a year ago. It was a very cold day, but local farmers and their families turned out in force to support the farmer who was retiring.

Phew!

In other news, I visited Jenny and Dennis in Wall today.  I haven't seen them for a few weeks. Jenny was interested to hear about the Book Festival in Keswick.

Steve had recovered sufficiently to go home today. He phone me and sounds much more like himself. That it good news.