Re: Stupid Human tricks

["Bob La Londe" <usenet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"alarman" <alarman2000@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Bob La Londe <usenet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> > Last week I tried to get my invoicing done on Thursday so I could go
> fishing
> > on Friday.  No such luck.  I spent the whole afternoon tackling a
> takeover.
> > Programming and testing was no big deal, and the add-ons the customer
> > purchased made it worth while.
> >
> > Friday I headed into the office bright and early thinking I would crank
> them
> > out and get it going.  First thing I did was load up a bunch of
envelopes
> in
> > the ol' high (relatively) speed inkjet and set it to print them while I
> > finished invoicing.  It trashed more envelopes than it printed.  Oh,
well.
> > Sent the envelope job to the older printer on the network, and it
printed
> > them ok.  2-3 at a time between paper jams.  Grrrrrr.....
> >
> > Thinking to save my self a bunch of time in the future I headed over to
> the
> > office supply store to buy a new printer.  I bought a nice fast laser
> > printer.  Spent a half an hour getting it loaded on the network so all
the
> > computers could use it, and ran a test page from each machine.  Cool.  I
> > loaded a stack of window envelopes in the tray and sent a print job to
run
> > off a hundred envelopes....  oops.  Not a good idea.  It melted the
window
> > in a dozen envelopes before I could get it shut off.  LOL.
>
> Hey, Bob
> Why are you printing window envelopes??
> js

Pretty little logo and return address on envelope.  Worked great for a long
time, but alas the expensive high speed inkjet is dying.  Still handles
plain paper ok, but it won't handle anything else well anymore.  I can use
it for invoicing, except this new laser does that so much faster.