Re: Stupid Human tricks

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

"Jim" <alarminex@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>
> 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
> .....:-)
>

Yeah, I may just break down and buy those exorbitant little double window
invoice envelopes.  Fortunately with Quick Books its easy enough to redesign
my invoices to show properly.

In the past I just print envelopes in the background while doing invoicing.
Sadly this time it took me almost two full days to get my monthly invoicing
done.  Usually it takes me less than one.  I guess 8 hrs at 75/hr I didn't
save much... LOL

Actually I was finally getting around to integrating all those accounts I
picked up when I bought out Desert Alarm two years ago.  Until Friday I was
letting the CS bill them as DA had done.  I'm sure that accounted for some
of my lost time (but not no stinking 8 or 9 hours worth.)