Re: Stupid Human tricks

["Jim" <alarminex@xxxxxxx>]

Bob La Londe wrote:
> 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.
>
> Spent the rest of the day printing my envelopes in the old inkjet at slower
> than crud speeds and unjammed it every few envelopes.  I think it actually
> felt sorry for me, because by the end it was running 30-40 envelopes between
> jams.
>
> Oh, well.  You gotta love this planned obsolescence.


I have to say that I also went through all that too, only it was years
and years ago, before there were relatively inexpensive printers that
would print on envelopes. I went through the whole lable thing, getting
lables on wrong envelopes. Putting bills in wrong envelopes. Trying
pre-enclosed bills on tractor feed paper, for use with an impact
printer. When the ink jets came down in price and their envelope
printing capabilities SUPPOSEDLY was perfected, I tried that. And all
of this was simply to avoid having to pay, what I considered, the
exorbitant amount they charge for double window envelopes. Well
............ now I know why they charge so much. I think it's actually
not because it cost that much more to make them than regular envelopes.
It's because they know damn well that no one has got a good way to
reliably print on plain envelopes, with out often wasting more than you
get out of a good run and that lables are too labor intensive and too
many mix-ups occur.

If I hadn't gone though all that, I would really begrudge the amount
they get for the double window envelopes .......... but not now.

Well .......... maybe I still begrudge it ........... a little bit
.....:-)