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Re: Stupid Human tricks



I use double window envelopes I buy from Walmart.

Jim Rojas


"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.
>
> 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.
>
>
>
>
>
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>
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