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Hook, Line and Ink

Why your printer won't print black without yellow

Episode 4 · 78 seconds · The Ticket in the Cardigan / Who Turns On the APPLAUSE?

Scraps, a veteran of a hundred printer fights, guides a horrified Miss Marigold through the office copy room as she tries to print one black-and-white coloring page and the printer demands yellow ink.

From the script

  1. ScrapsThe printer cost less than its ink. That's the plan.

  2. Miss MarigoldHush, Scraps! One coloring page. Black lines only, so you add colors!

  3. ScrapsI have printed things. Many things. Stay behind me.

  4. Miss MarigoldOne teeny coloring page, please, Mister Printer!

Next time: the self-checkout has questions

  • Scraps
  • Miss Marigold
  • Clive