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VOLUME 13 • ISSUE 2 / SPRING – SUMMER • 2008 Printer Supply and Repair Company
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but it will arrive in newsletter or a low. It also reduces paper usage; that’s
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PROVIDING SUPPLIES AND REPAIRS FOR HOUSTON’S LASER AND INKJET PRINTER USERS SINCE 1988 • 713-522-4546
Fuel hikes, surcharges prompt service rate increase
To cover the skyrocketing time if Laser Ink — like most
cost of fuel and delivery New Service Rates Effective Aug. 1, 2008 of our competitors — should
surcharges, our hourly service In-Shop (All) On-Site (B&W) On-Site (Color) charge a higher rate for
rates will increase $4 an hour working on color laser
$69 $89 $109
Aug. 1 — our first rate hike printers than monochrome
in 20 years.
A $4 per hour increase to cover fuel & delivery costs. (black and white).
The separate, higher rate for color laser printer repair is new.
After the increase, on-site With four printing
service will cost $89 an hour engines (CMYK), a color laser
for monochrome printers. In-shop honest approach to handling fuel hikes printer is a significantly more complex
service for any equipment will cost $69 and other cost increases. and difficult piece of equipment to
an hour. On-site service for color laser Those “other cost increases” repair and service. We concluded that
printers will cost $109 an hour. include fuel surcharges and delivery the color laser printer expertise and
When we set our hourly service fees charged by the wholesalers who experience accumulated by our service
rates nearly 20 years ago, gasoline cost sell us the parts needed to repair your technicians justified the higher rate
slightly more than $1 a gallon. Our printers. The parts themselves may cost for color laser printers.
rates haven’t gone up, but gasoline has the same, but getting them delivered As far as we know, our new hourly
more than tripled in price since 1988. now costs much more. rate for repairing color laser printers
Laser Ink never adds a “transit fee” It is interesting to note that the $4 is still lower than any other laser printer
or “fuel surcharge” on top of our increase will literally pay for the one repair company in Houston that
service fee. And we don’t want to start gallon of gasoline needed on many charges a higher rate for color laser
now because we believe adding a “fuel service calls to drive to and from your printer repairs.
surcharge” gives the false impression office. In effect, you’re not really paying We appreciate your business and
that it’s a temporary increase. Laser Ink; you’re paying ExxonMobil, do our best to earn it. We held off
Does anyone expect gasoline to Shell, etc. raising our repair rates for 20 years.
drop below $3 a gallon? And that “fuel Our new $109 hourly rate for The $4 hike is an adjustment to cover
surcharges” will simply disappear? We servicing color laser printers is a cost increases beyond our control.
believe a modest rate hike is a more different matter. We debated for a long
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Why use Laser Ink and not …
<insert office superstore of your choice >
potential cartridges is less than 2%. “made in America” means real live person who cares
customer Or add that our compatible something to us. Yes, we that you get the help and
recently posed a toner cartridges carry a now live in a “global products you need.
thought-provoking lifetime warranty, so we economy,” but we’re still We listen to you and
question on the phone: replace those rare failed proud to sell high-quality,
freely offer our advice for
Why should I use you cartridges at no cost to you. reasonably priced products
solving your printing
rather than <insert office I suspect your eyes that also provide jobs in
problems. Often, that
superstore of your choice>? would start to glaze over. America.
The reasons are obvious to “Two percent you say. My, Selling products that doesn’t result in us selling
me; I co-own the place, my... I think I’ll go watch use recycled materials is you anything. For us, it isn’t
after all. So at first, it felt the grass grow and the another part of the “why” all about making a quick
like explaining why I like paint dry now.” of Laser Ink. Our motto is sale and getting you off the
ice cream (It’s tasty. Duh.) Tooting our own horn “recycling to help preserve phone.
But it got me thinking. by telling you Laser Ink our planet.” It’s on your Don’t get me wrong. If
Why indeed? sells 500-plus toner free Laser Ink mouse pad. we didn’t make a profit, we
Let’s start with the cartridges a month to We believe in recycling,
wouldn’t be here and none
obvious: high quality, low hundreds of satisfied and take that aspect of our
of the other factors would
cost, free delivery, lifetime customers doesn’t really business very seriously.
matter. But for us, making
warranty. We offer all that answer the question either. Still, “made in
and more, and have for Heck, it doesn’t even America” and recycling a profit is simply the
more than 20 years. include the other products might seem too “touchy- consequence of doing a
That sounds too much we sell and the printer feely” for some. Sure, it’s good job and selling a
like “ad speak,” though, so repairs we do. good stuff, but .... reliable product. It isn’t the
it doesn’t cross the doubt I would like to tell you So here are the key “be all and end all” of our
threshold for many people. a couple things, though. reasons why I think you existence.
Too much slick advertising Our compatible toner choose Laser Ink and not Finally — and this is
has made a lot of us cartridges are made in West the other guys.
the hardest one of all to
skeptical about general Virginia and Washington, When you call us, you
put into words — we like
claims — even when PA. Coincidentally, that talk to informed people
our customers and many
they’re true. small city in southwestern who treat you with respect
I could be more Pennsylvania is the and take the time to answer of you tell us you like us.
specific and point out that hometown of one of Laser your questions. You’re not Thank you.
the failure rate on our Ink’s co-owners. automatically shunted into George Sroka,
compatible toner Offering products “voicemail” hell; you get a President, Laser Ink
LASER INK • TONER AND INKJET CARTRIDGES: NEW AND COMPATIBLE SINCE 1988 • 713-522-4546 SPRING - SUMMER 2008 • PAGE 3
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TIPS & TECHNIQUES FOR USERS OF MICROSOFT WORD ®
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Copyright © 2008 Sharon Parq Associates, Inc. All
rights reserved. WordTips is a free e-mail publication.
To find out more, visit http://wordtips.vitalnews.com/
QUOTABLES
Expand or Compress Text choose Customize. Word toolbars? You’re not
2. Make sure the alone. For those of us
Word provides a way to
Commands tab is selected. getting to the bifocal age,
adjust the horizontal size of
3. In the Categories toolbar buttons seem to be
characters. This scaling
list, select Format. getting smaller — or at least
function enables you to Love yourself first, and
4. In the Commands harder to see. In fact, it’s everything else falls into line.
expand or compress
list, select Character Scaling. downright impossible You really have to love
selected text. To format
5. Use the mouse to sometimes to tell what the yourself to get anything
characters in this way:
drag the selected command icon is! This problem is done in this life.
1. Select the
to a toolbar, then close the particularly acute when -- Lucille Ball (1911 - 1989)
characters you want to scale.
dialog box. working with a monitor set Actress, Comedienne
2. Display the Font
dialog box by choosing to a high resolution, making
Fast Spelling Corrections the icons even smaller.
The purpose of education
Format | Font. (In Word is to replace an empty mind
2007, you press Ctrl+D.) Want to quickly correct a Fortunately, you can make
with an open one.
3. Make sure the word that Word thinks is those tool icons larger. Malcom Forbes (1919 -1990 )
Character Spacing tab is improperly spelled? Right- 1. Choose the Publisher, Forbes Magazine
selected. click the misspelled word to Customize option from the
bring up a Context menu Tools menu. It is the paradox of life that
4. Use the Scale drop-
containing spelling 2. Click on the the way to miss pleasure is
down list to select a
percentage from the pre-
suggestions. Word then Options tab. to seek it first. The very first
replaces the word on which 3. Select the Large condition of lasting
defined list or enter a value,
you right-clicked (the Icons option and close. happiness is that a life should
then Click OK.
incorrect word) with the be full of purpose, aiming at
If you need to scale Now the toolbar buttons
proper spelling. something outside self.
several selections in your appear larger and slightly
– Hugo Black (1886 - 1971)
documents, you can add a cruder looking, but at least U.S. Senator and Associate
scaling tool to a toolbar by Make Buttons Bigger! you can see them. This Justice on U.S. Supreme Court
following these steps: Having trouble seeing the option works with any
1. On the Tools menu, icons used on the various Microsoft Office program. Let the beauty we love
be what we do.
REFURBISHED – Rumi (1207 - 1273)
Poet, theologian, philosopher
TONER AND INKJET CARTRIDGES: NEW AND COMPATIBLE SINCE 1988 LASER INKLINGS • SPRING-SUMMER 2008 • PAGE 5
The
Funny Stuff :-)
Grandparents
made from a tire; it hung from a tree
& Grandchildren
I’m four to six.”
G randma was in the bathroom,
putting on her makeup, under the
in our front yard. We rode our pony.
We picked wild raspberries in the A second grader came home from
school and said to her grandmother,
woods.” The little girl was wide-eyed,
watchful eyes of her young “Grammy, guess what? We learned
taking this all in. At last she said, “I
granddaughter, as she’d done many how to make babies today.” The
sure wish I’d gotten to know you
times before. After she applied her grandmother, more than a little
sooner!”
lipstick and started to leave, the little
one said, “But Grammy, you forgot
to kiss the toilet paper good-bye!”
W hen my grandson Billy and I
entered our vacation cabin, we kept
surprised, tried to keep her cool.
“That’s interesting,” she said, “how
do you make babies?” “It’s simple,”
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