[Info-vax] Nice printers for OpenVMS?

Paul Sture paul at sture.ch
Fri Aug 3 08:37:30 EDT 2012


On Fri, 03 Aug 2012 11:23:15 +0000, VAXman- wrote:

> In article <k7mse9-ip7.ln1 at news1.chingola.ch>, Paul Sture
> <paul at sture.ch> writes:
>>
>>I once found some ink cartridges for an old Canon in a remainders bin so
>>grabbed the lot.  That printer would also work on an empty colour
>>cartridge :-)
>>
>>At the end of the day though it wasn't just the way ink cartridges were
>>holding me hostage that made me switch to laser, but the endless faffing
>>around the print heads would do prior to printing.
> 
> Faffing!  Yessir, you're from Blighty! ;)

Oops, I didn't realise that was British. ;-)

faff verb (faffed, faffing) intrans, colloq (also faff about) to act in a 
fussy, uncertain way, not achieving very much; to dither. 

(and I've just learned a couple of German words for that)

-- 
Paul Sture



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