Monthly Archives: May 2011

So the third scanner came a few days ago and gave me the same error message as the first two. I finally wised up enough to try the scanner on a different computer and, sure enough, it’s all the fault of my current computer. Canon sent me a helpful list of suggestions to fix it, none of them worked, and now I’m waiting for another response. At this point I’m all for sending the scanner back, getting a refund and starting over with an entirely new brand/model, not because of Canon (they’ve been helpful overall, although I wish their first instinct wasn’t just to send a scanner back if it didn’t work on the first try), but because my computer, no matter what model, consistently fails me. How did I end up with a website again? Oh yeah, there was a lack of this sort of website around when I started almost ten years ago. Anyway, sorry it’s been almost a month between updates, and the way things are going I’m just going to buy another scanner and be done with it. When that happens the reviews are going to come in chunks, as I’ve been keeping the rambling bottled up for almost a month, so your patience will be rewarded eventually.

So it turns out that the replacement scanner had the exact same problem as the original scanner. Who would have thought? Certainly not the fine people at Canon. I was going to post an update about this yesterday, when the replacement scanner arrived, but I figured a string of expletives wouldn’t be very useful to anybody. Today I can tell you much more calmly that ANOTHER replacement scanner is on the way, so if this one works things will be back to normal at some point next week. This is assuming that anybody even still looks at this site, as I am well aware of the short attention span of the public at large. Still, if you are reading this, my offer to ship any comic orders out the same day that I get them still stands, as this unplanned vacation is going to continue for at least a few more days. For whatever it’s worth, I am clearing out my schedule so that I have plenty of time for comics when I do get a working scanner…

So I finally figured out what’s wrong with my scanner, and it’s a hardware problem. Luckily I just bought it so Canon is happy to send a replacement scanner, but that means no updates until at least early next week, and that’s assuming that their delivery system is actually as quick as they say it is. My apologies again, here’s hoping that I’ve built up enough credibility over almost 10 years of rambling about comics that you know I’ll be back as soon as possible. In the meantime, hey, I am still selling comics, so you could just buy some of them to fill the void. This extra free time means that I’ll be able to ship them out probably the day that you order them at the moment…

The good news is that I got the scanner today. The bad news, naturally, is that it doesn’t seem to work. If anybody out there has experience with the Canon LIDE 110, send me an e-mail and maybe we can fix it. It tells me to unlock it then plug it back in, but that doesn’t work (neither does restarting the computer), and according to Google I’m the only person in the world with this problem. Tomorrow I’ll call some tech help if I have to, but after bashing my head against a wall for the last hour or so I’m just going to call it a day. This is why I can’t have nice things…

I couldn’t find the scanner I was looking for in town, so to the internets I went! A scanner is on the way and should be here by the start of next week, at which point I’ll be doing double updates for a bit to cut through this mound of comics. In the meantime, pick a letter of the alphabet and go to the “reviews by author” section. Click on all of the reviews for an artist whose first name starts with that letter and you’re bound to find SOMETHING you haven’t seen yet, which makes it new to you….

Quick, a show of hands: who thought that this hand-me-down scanner would actually work for very long? Yep, it’s crapped out on me too and I can’t possibly get a scanner today. There’s a pile of new comics here just waiting for me to ramble about, but it’s just not the same if I can’t show pictures along with it. I’ll get an actual new scanner some time this week, until then there’s always the archives if you’re looking to kill time at work…