This Week's Sneak Peek

I'm having trouble with my scanner today. After spending hours trying to get past this error message every time I turned it on —

— including searching for scraps of misfed paper; turning it on while simultaneously pressing the Stop/Clear Settings button, the Setup button, the Copy button, the Scan button, and various combinations of the above; unplugging the scanner; uninstalling the printer/scanner from the computer, downloading and installing a new driver; blowing compressed air inside; removing and replacing all ink cartridges; dropping from a two-inch height —

I tried contacting on-line help services, both from Epson and independent of them. They suggested removing any scraps of misfed paper; unplugging the scanner; uninstalling from the computer and reinstalling; removing and replacing all ink cartridges.

Ctrl-Rinse, Repeat.

So I ended up running my cartoon out to the church where I'm the organist, and having the pastor scan it and email it to me. Having to work from a grayscale image rather than a Black/White one made a difference when colorizing it (lots of neither white nor black pixels along every line), and I'm worried that the results in print will not be up to my usual standards.

I had already begun shopping for a new printer/scanner. My better half occasionally has to print charts for work; there is so much data crammed onto every chart that its font size is about 4 picas. Any little gaps in printing can make whole lines illegible, and this Epson is very prone to gapping. Running the head cleaner functions accomplishes little other than emptying the toner cartridges one after another.

Sorry, Shaq, but I don't believe I'll be looking at another Epson.

Anyway, here's this week's sneak peek:

P.S.: The hits from Singapore keep on coming. I read that there have been legal advances in LGBTQ+ rights in the city-state lately, but I can't believe that accounts for thousands of theoretical visitors here every day.