Lexmark blows goats. I have proof.
(wholesale libel follows)
And not just as a hobby or socially. Full on knob gobblers, these guys. They enjoy it, too, don’t let ‘em tell you they don’t. I mean, they really get in there and work that monkey like it’s got the cure in it. Like if they can just hold out, hoooold out for that last teensy drop it’ll be the million dollar prize in the Cracker Jacks, El Dorado, and the Fountain of fuckin’ Youth all rolled into one.
The goat kinda likes it, too.
(that was fun)
You might gather that I’m just the tiniest bit perturbed by said goat fellators. I am – and specifically about their handling of ink and ink-related substances. I am in an environment where decisions, outside of my control, have lead to a convergence of events that has me in charge of 3 different models of Lexmark printers – E250, E352, and E450. Different trim levels, different options, different duty cycles and PPMs, but all built around the same print engine.
Exactly the same. They admit they’re the same. They use it as a marketing point – it reduces cost by reducing the number of different components that have to be maintained in stock, blah blah blah. The toner cartridges for one will happily snap into the other.
But the printer rejects them as the “wrong type”. Not because it’s not the same damned cartridge, but because…
Why? Because they blow goats, and that’s what a goat blower does. *cough* *ahem*
I mean, “Why? Because the cartridges are strapped with a tiny little chip whose entire fucking purpose is to make a printer reject cartridges based on an arbitrary model distinction.” So instead of being able to keep a small handful of one replacement cartridge on hand, presumably the benefit of common design, I have to keep three small handfuls of exactly the same fucking cartridge on hand to satisfy the whims of some jackoff marketoid. Lexxie wants to be able to maintain “premium” pricing on the cartridges for the “higher end” model, and keep page yield artificially low on the lower end models.
Asshats.