I'm Going To Pack a Lot Into My "Day Off" & Printer Woes Again

I spent yesterday at the shop dealing with printer issues - at least, that's how I started my day. DH had run the end-of-day report on Wednesday night, and come home extremely frustrated with the new printer. I totally understood ... I had issues with it myself on Tuesday night, but thought I had resolved them. Apparently I had not. 

The new printer I got is having problems 
feeding paper properly. I'll probably tear 
it apart and give it a good cleaning later 
on, but right now I've returned to my older 
printer instead. At least that one works 
(with some quirks, of course). 

However, I don't know what DH did at all, but communication between the printer and the computer was spotty (they're direct wired, there shouldn't be spotty communications at all), and the printer was only feeding in half a sheet of paper before giving up. I finally pulled the old printer out of its' box and set that one back up again. An old enemy is a known enemy ... and we know how to approach the old printer very well. 

Of course, I had to convince my computer that it recognized and acknowledged the old printer once again, and that took some time. All in all, I spent more than an hour of my early morning getting printers shifted and recognized by my proprietary program. However, that at least was successful. I'm back to running price tags onto plain paper and copying them onto the actual price tag sheets at home, then returning them to the shop in the morning. But at least that's an inconvenience that I'm familiar with. 

We use a sheet of sticky price tags similar 
(but not identical) to this format. We've been 
doing this for a long time, and it works for 
our system and our products pretty well. I used 
to be able to print directly from the computer to 
the printer at work, but not lately. Now I have 
to take home the paper copies and copy them 
onto the label stock with my home printer. 

The rest of the day was spent entering price tags. Lots and lots of them. DH has decided to put the final category of seed beads, our 8o size, onto clearance. It joins a host of other sizes and shapes we already have offered for clearance prices. He had three large boxes of beads for me to enter tags for, and I actually got through 2-1/4 of them before the end of the day. I copied the sheets of tags onto my labels at home last night, and I'm dropping them off at the shop on my way to the grocery store today. One more thing accomplished. 

I adore my Soozy's Grain Free breads for my breakfast. I get 
their bread and their bagels, and love them. They're gluten 
free, grain free, dairy free and sugar free. Their sweeteners 
of choice are maple syrup and sometimes a dash of 
coconut sugar. The only place I can find them locally is 
at Whole Foods, so I'll start my day off at that grocery 
store when they open at 8:00 am. 

So today is my "day off" and it's packed with errands and cooking and stuff. I've got to get going on all of that, so I'm going to wrap this up now. Have an excellent Friday, enjoy your day, and I'll be back tomorrow. Slava Ukraini.