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MM-cxiv     Sunday

2000-04-23

Easter

The predicted rain has decided to be drizzle, so the clouds don't empty themselves. They remain stationed up there and keep the sun out.

I like to run in the rain but this drizzle is no fun and the 12°C in the morning is too hot really. For running anyway.

I scanned in a map for my father. He had made it painstakingly on graphing paper, with lines every millimeter. Of course scanning the map also scanned in all the ruler lines. After some trials I could only get them out scanning in colour and then doing a colour separation and then readjust the contrast and balance until I got them faded out.

While doing that I tried to print an intermediate map to see if the lines, still visible on the screen were also visible on paper. My old HP Deskjet 500 seems to have broken down however. The ink was almost up so I intended to buy a refill but now he doesn't want to feed paper anymore. To the right, under the control panel is an a-centric wheel that depresses the stack of paper. When a page must be fed the wheel should turn and the stack is pushed up against the rollers short a few moments. The wheel however doesn't start to turn anymore and needs a manual assist.
It has been running since 1991 with hardly a problem and consuming less than a cartridge a year. I'll take it apart to see if it can be repaired but I am not going to spend money on it, buying a new one is probably cheaper than sending it back for repairs and spare parts are possibly unavailable. I guess this will be the end of the line for this trusty old printer