The new printer we ordered was shipped by Amazon. I checked this morning and they said it was five stops away. When I looked later it said it was one stop away so I looked for a truck through my living room window. It wasn’t a truck, it was a passenger vehicle with a woman and a boy in it. The boy carried the box and the woman monitored the smart phone. I never expected that here in our little town.
The printer was easy enough to carry and set up, and it seemed to print all right. Unfortunately it put a wide (almost 1/2 inch) black band on the side of anything I tried to copy, and when I tried to scan half of the background image was gray instead of white. So we’ll have to send it back and are now searching for something else.
Never a dull moment.
August 13, 2022
That is very surprising. I love Canon printers. I have had 3 or 4 of them. The customer service is always outstanding. Maybe they could help figure out what is wrong. it is the only brand of printer I would get.
I tried phoning this afternoon. The robot lady made me jump through a couple of hoops before telling me that tech support was closed for the weekend.
Good grief, how frustrating! And what is with the woman and boy, that isn’t even an Amazon delivery truck! Do you suspect foul play?
Not at all. I’m sure Amazon hired them to do local deliveries. It’s a clever idea.
No official truck makes me uneasy.
I hope the next printer turns out to be perfect!
I have a printer that doesn’t work. When it did, it was not very good.
I was always having to print up extra sheets for it to “set up”. That wasted a lot of ink!
When I had to order more ink, it would have been cheaper just to buy a new printer so I did nothing.
I really don’t need a printer too often so crossing my fingers that I don’t need one at all.
I hope you have a better experience!
xo
Thanks! We’ve had good luck in the past, but they were heavier, sturdier machines. Too heavy for us now.
a lot of services in NZ use semi private cars, like Hello Fresh but also when I was getting foodbox. That’s because the courier services are still swamped and in fact sometimes to do with “driver shortage” – we still have stiff mandatory rules around covid. But also this year, it’s been the first winter for 2 winters of winter bugs…when the borders were closed certain winter germs weren’t arriving and mingling…more people getting sicker with lower immunity to regular bugs.
I’ve bought an Epson with ink tanks – took a bit of time to set it up etc but works well now…
I’m glad your Epson works. We had a good one years ago when Andy was printing photos. It was really heavy, though.
my new one is much lighter than my old C.pixma….and it has lots of good whistles and bells than I had before, including printing from my phone…
Too bad about the printer.
Around here there are quite a few amazon delivery people who use private vehicles.
It’s a good idea. 🙂
Yep, no foul play…we’ve had private carriers before also. Too bad it wasn’t what you expected.
We decided to try again and ask for a replacement. Fingers crossed. 🙂
Don’t fret over the delivery people, here that is common, we get more personal deliveries than truck deliveries. Ours is a young woman in a toyota car. they are using the trucks to take big things and to got to what they call hubs. now we have 6 hubs that we can pick up packages there, that is where the trucks go. there sales have become so massive they can’t deliver everything by truck.
I know you do what i do in the Search Dept, but just in case, did you type in what it is doing and see if someone else has a fix? i just tried it and it said when you get black lines when copy the slit glass is dirty. search on and have fun. I love my HP Envy E printer.
Thanks for the recommendation. We think it’s a software problem. If we switch the paper size from letter to B5 it works, which means there’s a bug. I’ll phone tech support tomorrow about that and the scanning problem.
Last month I had a unknown lady show up at my front door with a bag of toiletries I’d ordered via Amazon. I love the ingenuity that led to this!
Yes, it’s a great idea!
Sorry the printer didn’t work out. Recently we had a care with two people drop off an Amazon order of ours. I was very surprised not to see the normal Amazon van.
We usually get our Amazon orders via UPS or USPS. I’ve never seen an Amazon van, but we’re in a small town.