Houshphandzadeh wrote:why do printers hate to cancel jobs so much

Dude, that's what causes PC LOAD LETTER

Printers really suck. Especially network printers.

My main printer at work decides randomly not to work. Have to keep turning it on and off to get it to work. Ball peen hammer technique is next.

yeah its astounding how we've put men on the moon but can't make network printing an easy process

I remember when everybody thought that with computers we could go paperless. Maybe printers suck because we were never supposed to print things in the first place.

smitty wrote:Printers really suck. Especially network printers.

My main printer at work decides randomly not to work. Have to keep turning it on and off to get it to work. Ball peen hammer technique is next.

Is that the one where you smash your toes with the hammer because it's better than dealing with the printer?

And where are the Jet Packs and flying cars like George Jetson had?

FFS.

The other day (my CAPSLOCK day) I was printing out sets of full size plans, 24"x36". I was batch plotting them so they'd come out nice and collated and all I'd have to do is staple and fold them. Unfortunately the 4th page of every set consisted of 2 lines of text, about 10" tall, saying, "AETNE DETAIL". No clue why it was doing it, but it worked fine when I printed out 8 copies of just the fourth page. Hand collating D sized sheets is a real pain in the ass.

TenuredVulture wrote:I remember when everybody thought that with computers we could go paperless. Maybe printers suck because we were never supposed to print things in the first place.

We have reduce company-wide print volume something like 75% over the last 10 years.

I have found that one thing that helps a ton in reducing dependency on hard copies is having a second monitor.

smitty wrote:And where are the Jet Packs and flying cars like George Jetson had?

FFS.

And dippin dots.

There are too many people talking all at once.

WheelsFellOff wrote:The other day (my CAPSLOCK day) I was printing out sets of full size plans, 24"x36". I was batch plotting them so they'd come out nice and collated and all I'd have to do is staple and fold them. Unfortunately the 4th page of every set consisted of 2 lines of text, about 10" tall, saying, "AETNE DETAIL". No clue why it was doing it, but it worked fine when I printed out 8 copies of just the fourth page. Hand collating D sized sheets is a real pain in the ass.

you ain't kidding. i do a lot of 30x42 and it sucks. worse is when i'm doing a rotated border drawing and i forget that i didn't put it in portrait instead of landscape and i have to walk my ass back down to the repro room and print more.

phatj wrote:

smitty wrote:Printers really suck. Especially network printers.

My main printer at work decides randomly not to work. Have to keep turning it on and off to get it to work. Ball peen hammer technique is next.

Is that the one where you smash your toes with the hammer because it's better than dealing with the printer?

There's two ways to fix electronically things. First, reboot. If that doesn't work you knock the crap out of it with a ball peen hammer. That usually keeps your electronic subordinates in line.

jamiethekiller wrote:

WheelsFellOff wrote:The other day (my CAPSLOCK day) I was printing out sets of full size plans, 24"x36". I was batch plotting them so they'd come out nice and collated and all I'd have to do is staple and fold them. Unfortunately the 4th page of every set consisted of 2 lines of text, about 10" tall, saying, "AETNE DETAIL". No clue why it was doing it, but it worked fine when I printed out 8 copies of just the fourth page. Hand collating D sized sheets is a real pain in the ass.

you ain't kidding. i do a lot of 30x42 and it sucks. worse is when i'm doing a rotated border drawing and i forget that i didn't put it in portrait instead of landscape and i have to walk my ass back down to the repro room and print more.

My kingdom for a printern!

phatj wrote:

TenuredVulture wrote:I remember when everybody thought that with computers we could go paperless. Maybe printers suck because we were never supposed to print things in the first place.

We have reduce company-wide print volume something like 75% over the last 10 years.

I have found that one thing that helps a ton in reducing dependency on hard copies is having a second monitor.

Wait--you have reduced, or you have to reduce? We're talking about reducing here, but we have no specific targets or policies on how to do that. I do think we could stop printing Departmental directories every semester. The one I have from 2008 works well enough.

Everytime I travel to a differnt site, I have to install their local printer on my laptop if I need to print anything. They are all networked. So then when I login from home and connect back to my local printer if I forget to change my default printer, I wind up printing where ever I was last week.

Another printer story, we have people that do a lot of printing, and some of the stuff gets printed to something called "centralize print and mail" which is located in chicago and then some of it is printed locally. So they have two computers on their desk, one for printing things to the local printer and one to print to centralized. The software we use is a piece of shit. Like a true shining turd. It was written in fox pro like 10 years ago, and instead of overhauling it we just bolt on things that are needed and then never remove the old stuff. It's so awful, but it's the reason I have a job.

RichmondPhilsFan wrote:

TenuredVulture wrote:Fish oil is pretty cheap, and I think the cholesterol thing is pretty well supported. Omega-3s are good for you.

Last I heard, new studies were suggesting that fish oil capsules were junk. Essentially, our bodies don't properly absorb omega-3 unless it's contained naturally within the food.

Here's the study published in the AMA Journal: http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=1357266

Naturally, just last week I decided to start taking fish oil and purchased a bottle of capsules. Doomed.

Slowhand wrote:

RichmondPhilsFan wrote:

TenuredVulture wrote:Fish oil is pretty cheap, and I think the cholesterol thing is pretty well supported. Omega-3s are good for you.

Last I heard, new studies were suggesting that fish oil capsules were junk. Essentially, our bodies don't properly absorb omega-3 unless it's contained naturally within the food.

Here's the study published in the AMA Journal: http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=1357266

Naturally, just last week I decided to start taking fish oil and purchased a bottle of capsules. Doomed.

You had a good run.

smooth criminal is a pretty violent song

TenuredVulture wrote:

phatj wrote:

TenuredVulture wrote:I remember when everybody thought that with computers we could go paperless. Maybe printers suck because we were never supposed to print things in the first place.

We have reduce company-wide print volume something like 75% over the last 10 years.

I have found that one thing that helps a ton in reducing dependency on hard copies is having a second monitor.

Wait--you have reduced, or you have to reduce? We're talking about reducing here, but we have no specific targets or policies on how to do that. I do think we could stop printing Departmental directories every semester. The one I have from 2008 works well enough.

Sorry, forgot the "d". Have reduced.

We accomplished this by purchasing a product that would publish all our mainframe reports electronically, and then refusing to print anything unless someone went through hoops to show that they had a business need for hard copies. Make it easy to get to electronically and a pain in the ass to get on paper. Of course, this resulted in some volume shifting from our big datacenter printer to workgroup printers, but a lot of these reports are just too big to print on a machine that you have to share with a lot of other people.

caps lock button should be written in caps lock on the keyboard.