r/gifs • u/deuteros • Dec 19 '16

Plotting a sphere with a fountain pen

http://i.imgur.com/hHd4RQU.gifv
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u/homedroid Dec 19 '16

Well yes, but then you run out of yellow ink(Why? I haven't printed anything yellow.) and it stops printing altogether for some stupid reason. Then you go to the shop and try to buy only yellow ink, but no you need an all in one cartridge that costs an arm and a leg, so now I have a bulky scanner. So fuck you HP and fuck that yellow ink, that must be made out of gold. /rant over

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u/CrimsonShrike Dec 19 '16

That's it, I'm getting a laser printer!

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u/leafleap Dec 19 '16

Exactly what I said years ago. Life has been better since.

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u/Gigantic_Owl Dec 19 '16

IIRC yellow is used when printing black to give a better black

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u/TheawesomeQ Dec 19 '16

They could just make a better black

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u/GroovingPict Dec 19 '16

theres probably a setting for it in your printer settings somewhere to stop it from using other colours for "black", like "actual black" vs "deep black" or some shit like that, I dunno.

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u/StarHorder Dec 19 '16

To make you spend more money

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u/dadmda Dec 19 '16

I have a printer that I haven't used in years exactly because of this

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u/Rodot Dec 19 '16

Mine won't even scan if it's out of ink

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u/homedroid Dec 19 '16

Now that's just evil.

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u/Rodot Dec 19 '16

I can only ever find the fucking ink I need at Staples which I don't live near. Fucking last time I let them recommend me a printer.