How to keep on running when you run out!

What do you do when you have run out of Black ink in your printer, you have a "Cannot miss dead line"( the reason it has run out now), and your local supplier has no stock of the cartridge you require untill the following day?

A situation we have all been in and will go to again ( human nature with me, whats your excuse?)

You could change your supplier, but why fall out with some one you have happily dealt with for years the first time they slip up. A lot of trust and good will down the drain in one go, not a good idea.

You can buy another printer they all come with cartridges in ( please see previous blog about the amount of ink in these cartridges you get with new printers) and would enable you to meet your deadline. Not a good idea as you would have to install it and then reset all the print parameters for your documents.

Or you can do what a customer of mine did, Cleve runs a busy Nation wide courier business (www.lincolnlogistics.co.uk) and he had a load of invoices to get out that day. A very annoying situation as any business person knows. I would rarther have a boil in the wrong place! was Cleves reply when I told him we were out of stock of his cartridge.

So Cleve being Cleve he came up with a solution, "I WILL PRINT THEM ALL IN DARK BLUE AS I STILL HAVE INK IN MY COLOUR CARTRIDGE AND THE BLACK ONE IS STILL SHOWING SOME IN, even though it has run out and will not print.

So for the sake of altering the font colour on his PC, he was able to get his invoices out. Simple, EFFECTIVE and in this case it worked. So there you are, if a situation seems unsurmountable think about it some more because there is usualy an answer staring you in the face. I do wish some answers would come and bite me personaly as I very often cannot see them!

By the way I would never play poker with Cleve , he just smiles at you and you cannot tell what he is thinking.