Printer from Office Space

[steph78]

I just had the biggest fight with our plotter - it was a scene straight out of Office Space. You know, when Michael Bolton is standing there and it won't do ANYTHING right..."PC Load Letter...PC LOAD LETTER? What the fuck does that mean????"

That was me, except it was a plotter I was trying to load a 36" roll of paper into. Before you think I'm incompetent, let me tell you that I have been working with this exact same plotter for three years and normally do not have any trouble with it. However, today it would just not do ANYTHING right. You have to feed the paper in very carefully, if you get it just the littlest bit off center it makes you start all over again from scratch. I kept getting "Roll misaligned, please reload paper" It took me like 15 minutes just to load the paper, just to plot ONE DRAWING I needed! AARGH. I was about ready to take a baseball bat to it. Sorry, just needed to vent. :)

[Kitty]

You have no idea how many problems I have had with printing in my life. My last boss was so f*cking cheap that she made me print a ton of stuff in-house. UGH!! I am so glad thats over...

WTF is up with printers?

[shimmer728]

All I have to do is touch copiers, computers, scanners, printers, fax machines, etc., and they go to shit. I hate machinery! :twisted:

[coll214]

I regularly swear at my printer once a week, take the damn thing apart to have it jam on me yet once again. Then there's the fun when other ppl have issues, guess who they come to? :googly:

[Skyblade]

I'm just glad we don't have to use those fax machines w/ the rolled up fax paper. Those sounded like torture devices.

[megrocks]

I totally messed up our office copier the other day. All I did was check the toner to see if we were running low because the copies were so light. I ended up spilling out tons of powdered toner on the floor and inside the copier, causing it to jam up. They finally just told me to leave it alone and someone else had to fix it.

[steph78]

You have no idea how many problems I have had with printing in my life. My last boss was so f*cking cheap that she made me print a ton of stuff in-house. UGH!! I am so glad thats over...

WTF is up with printers?

Yeah, I hear you - we FINALLY got a laser plotter which is awesome, it prints full-size drawings like lightning...however this one is our old inkjet plotter which we now use only for vellum plots (vellum is kind of like tracing paper only thicker - it's kinda see-through). The inkjet plotter takes like two minutes to plot out a full size sheet. Back in the day when this old one was our primary plotter and we had a large project going out you seriously had to schedule your time around plotting...it could literally take hours to plot one project if it was a biggie. And god forbid a client wants multiple copies...

[Tayl405]

I DESPISE printers! They always always always break! We were just joking that the printer in our office is from Office Space.

[steph78]

I'm just glad we don't have to use those fax machines w/ the rolled up fax paper. Those sounded like torture devices.
Oh, they are. When I was in high school way back in the day I had a summer job at an office that had one of those. Not the most reliable thing ever. That thermal paper is the weirdest stuff, I never understood why they used that.

[shimmer728]

I once jammed the printer at my old newspaper and then walked away as if I had nothing to do with it. When everyone started complaining and bitching, I sat at my desk and just giggled quietly. But I'm sure they knew it was me.

[Kitty]

you have no idea how many times I walked away from something I broke at work.

I'm really bad with technology.

[steph78]

I once jammed the printer at my old newspaper and then walked away as if I had nothing to do with it. When everyone started complaining and bitching, I sat at my desk and just giggled quietly. But I'm sure they knew it was me.

That's awesome! :) I wish I could pull something like that off, but alas I cannot. Someone is always watching here. One time printed a couple documents and they never came out of the printer- I checked the paper and it was in there, tried the reset button but that didn't work out either so I just decided to not worry about it, it wasn't something I needed RIGHT THEN...then I am sitting there working away and I kept hearing someone say my name, so I pop my head up above my cube wall and there are the president and vice president of the company standing there scratching their heads because they can't get the printer to work...and they saw that MY name was in the print queue (sp?) ahead of their papers and of course thought I was the idiot had caused the whole problem...what a great day.

[SmilesSoSweet]

We have a couple big plotters in the office and they work when they want to work. And for some reason the plotters know when there's a big deadline pressing the plotters stop working! Tech support isn't that great either. And today the main copier/printer was acting up. It kept saying remove original from feeder. I did that yet it still kept saying that. We just usually turn of the printer, count to ten and then turn it back on. Usually that helps.

[labrat2111]

A few weeks ago at work I noticed our copier had the toner low message come on. Well being lazy plus knowing that it's a bitch to put a new toner cartridge in the copier I just ignored it and figured when the copies started to come out too light I would replace the toner cartridge. The toner cartridges are pain in the ass because they go in horizontally so if you don't line up the grooves properly and get the cartridge to lock in place and pull it back out you spill toner everywhere. Well the copier ran with the low toner indicator on until teh end of the day Friday and then on Monday we all noticed that the copier would scan but would make a horrible grinding noise and no copies would print. After several tries we call the service guy to come in and look at in. He looked it over and guess what was wrong with it?

It was completely out of toner. See when it's low on toner it has a warning but there is no warning for when it completely runs out of toner. It just makes the horrible grinding noise making you think it's broken (not that it doesn't jam enough).

[wordsmith]

Our printer is fine, but our combination copier/fax is down more often than it's working. And my computer is a POS. It's only a newspaper...why should I need to type, receive e-mails, run Photoshop, paginate, or receive faxes, you know? :rolleyes:

[Morgan81]

Yesterday I had it out with the Document Center. Like, epically. It started at 7 with a simple copy. All I wanted to do was make ONE copy of ONE sheet. The thing is like 10 feet long and total overkill but that's another rant. It's touchscreen was flickering and I could barely make out the error message so, being the rational human being I am (in my defense this happens on average every other day) I complete lose it, start cursing like a sailor, unplug it and gut it like a tuna. I mean everything was out, toner cartridge, xenographic (the thing that says "DO NOT TOUCH!" :) ) module, I mean everything and just strewn around the copy room.
Now most people don't come in till like 9 so I knew I had time before I'd get someone who would object to my ad-hoc surgery. I did have a couple of on-lookers saying things like, "I've wanted to do that for months".
Anyway, I get done and throw everything back in (it's real easy, it's all coded so anyone can do it) and I count all the jammed pages. 47.
Thats an f-ing book in this leviathon. Than I actually read what it is. A f-ing paper on the benefits of yoga. What the F**K!!! I waste an hour of my morning because some dipshit wants to give out yoga papers at lunch (I did see a table in the cafeteria).
But, here's the point, why can't people call that shit in to the helpdesk! People do that all the damn time. They must think they'll get in trouble or sent to the vice president's office to get yelled at, so they just slink away and walk back when there's a crowd and just join in the technology bashing with all the other idiots instead of fixing the damn thing or CALLING A DAMN NUMBER.
Ugh. It's always a fun way to start the day.

[steph78]

Just wanted to report the the plotter and I are on speaking terms again. :)
While we might not be bestest friends, it accepted a new roll of paper on the first try just now...that's my one small victory for the day....

[blueyes]

Oh, man...I used to work at a Kinko's in college, so I'm intimately familiar with the guts of copiers and printers and crap. However, my entire office thinks I'm an electronic jinx to the Nth degree because whenever our main copier/printer goes down - I'm near it. One time, I pulled out one of the dedicated 8.5 x 11 paper trays and something FLEW out of it! At my head! It turned out to be a minor piece (some spring dealie that registered when the tray was full), but holy crap...

'When Technology Revolts!'

[mishl982]

I was just looking for this when it got bumped up - yay!

My copying machine was acting super weird. I sent a print job to the copier to print 15 copies. Well it did the 15 copies, but started printing on 3-hole paper (damn whoever put 3-hole paper in the copying machine!) half way through so i tried to cancel the job. Well it didn't cancel. And then for some reason it started printing on regular paper again. I still tried to cancel the job again and again but the printer just kept going. After my 15 copies were made, it CONTINUED to print more copies! Let's just say I wasted a lot of paper today.

[steph78]

Well, did it at least collate the 15 copies for you? :)

[mishl982]

Well, did it at least collate the 15 copies for you? :)

NOPE! Haha, well the first set of 15 came out ok, collated and exactly 15 copies. The second set of 15 (the one that really wanted to be a set of 20+) was just one big uncollated and half hole-y pile!

[uscuba2]

I just had the biggest fight with our plotter - it was a scene straight out of Office Space. You know, when Michael Bolton is standing there and it won't do ANYTHING right..."PC Load Letter...PC LOAD LETTER? What the fuck does that mean????"

Lol, I hear you. I hate my printer at home. Just about every time I need to print, I get hardware 502 error? WTF is that?. a ribbon is loose and I cann't get it stay and it does not do color anymore. I knew I should not have gotten an all in one or a lexmark . It' needs to die.

[mishl982]

I'm having a fight with the scanner. We're not on speaking terms.

Last week I did a practice run for this deliverable thing that is due today. Well today I try to scan it, do the same exact steps from last time (at least I'm sure they're the same) and it's giving me problems!! I sent in a request to IT to help, but they're not being very responsive! Ugh!

[Radgirl]

OMG, I can't stop laughing...I have tears and I think my co-workers think I'm nuts. TY for the great laugh.