Annoying printers

On 10/4/2018 2:20 AM, Jimmy Wilkinson Knife wrote:
On Wed, 03 Oct 2018 17:22:16 +0100, Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote:

On 10/1/2018 12:41 AM, Jimmy Wilkinson Knife wrote:
Why is it, that in the 21st century, printers never do what you tell them to? They forget you want landscape, they forget the number of copies, they refuse to cancel a job you've sent, they try to use colour ink for a black and white image and take 5 times longer, they can't feed a piece of paper without jamming it, the nozzles clog up every five minutes, the ink cartridges are stupidly small, and they **** about for ten minutes doing god knows what, spinning the roller and moving the cartridge back and forth for no reason before they get to work!


You need a laser printer!

And of course they never **** up....


Of course not. But at least, you don't need to play with ink cartridges.

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On 10/4/2018 10:13 PM, Mathedman wrote:

You need a laser printer!


HUH? What kind are you using?

Currently using a very old HP Laserjet 5L. Need to replace it soon.

I have an HP 3830 and it does all of this and more without problems
(unless one of the ink cartridges gets gets empty).


You can always feed paper piece by piece to avoid the paper jam problem.
Maybe the paper you are using are too thin or too rough. For new paper,
you need to fan them.

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On 10/05/2018 08:08 AM, Jimmy Wilkinson Knife wrote:

[snip]

If they can't speak English that's their problem.

I think that knowing English should be a requirement for things like
registering a vehicle (in an English-speaking country). Some people don't.

BTW, once when I was in Lowe's, I noticed the sign for "customer
service" was in FIVE languages. English, Spanish, French, and the other
two might have been Japanese and Russian.

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On 10/05/2018 08:11 AM, Jimmy Wilkinson Knife wrote:

[snip]

If you get toner on your clothes, be sure to wash them in COLD water.

Doesn't it need to be REALLY hot (as in more than boiling point) to fuse
toner?

I should try that sometime. Clean up some toner with an old rag and put
it in hot water.

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On 10/05/2018 08:12 AM, Jimmy Wilkinson Knife wrote:

[snip]

Ah...you walk across the street and open your box to get your mail. If
it is a rural area houses can be 1/4, 1/2 mile or more apart. In USA we
have many states larger that your country...rural can be really rural.

So your mail which is your property is left in a box which isn't on your
property?* No thanks.

When we lived on the farm, we actually owned some land on the other side
of the road where the mailbox was. My mother liked the wild berries that
grew there.

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Fleas are interested in dogs."

On 10/05/2018 08:45 AM, Jonathan N. Little wrote:

[snip]

1) It is a federal crime with heavy penalties for unauthorized access
(either inserting or removal of items).

Around here, people (who don't work for USPS) often leave things in
others' mailboxes. Often, misdelivered mail they're putting in the right
place.

2) It ain't up to you. USPS dictates where the box goes. If you don't
like it you have you get a PO Box...If you think 1000 ft walk is
inconvenient consider a 9 mile drive.

I know some people who got a PO box. Maybe for that reason, or maybe
because some people like to destroy mailboxes (for no apparent reason).

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"Politicians are interested in people. Not that this is always a virtue.
Fleas are interested in dogs."

On 10/05/2018 09:05 AM, NotMe wrote:

[snip]

Learn to quote.
Learn to thread.

If nothing else, learn SOMETHING.

On 10/05/2018 09:38 AM, Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote:

[snip]

You can always feed paper piece by piece to avoid the paper jam problem.
Maybe the paper you are using are too thin or too rough. For new paper,
you need to fan them.


My Brother laser has a slot in the front so it's easy to feed single
sheets. Paper in it overrides using the normal feeder.

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Mark Lloyd
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"Politicians are interested in people. Not that this is always a virtue.
Fleas are interested in dogs."

Mark Lloyd wrote:
On 10/05/2018 08:08 AM, Jimmy Wilkinson Knife wrote:

[snip]

If they can't speak English that's their problem.

I think that knowing English should be a requirement for things like
registering a vehicle (in an English-speaking country). Some people don't.

Please try to follow the thread! 'We' weren't talking about an
English-speaking country, we were talking about the US!

BTW, once when I was in Lowe's, I noticed the sign for "customer
service" was in FIVE languages. English, Spanish, French, and the other
two might have been Japanese and Russian.

On Fri, 05 Oct 2018 18:55:46 +0100, Frank Slootweg wrote:

Mark Lloyd wrote:
On 10/05/2018 08:08 AM, Jimmy Wilkinson Knife wrote:

[snip]

If they can't speak English that's their problem.

I think that knowing English should be a requirement for things like
registering a vehicle (in an English-speaking country). Some people don't.

Please try to follow the thread! 'We' weren't talking about an
English-speaking country, we were talking about the US!

Isn't Trump going to make it English speaking?

On Fri, 05 Oct 2018 18:24:23 +0100, Mark Lloyd wrote:

On 10/05/2018 08:08 AM, Jimmy Wilkinson Knife wrote:

[snip]

If they can't speak English that's their problem.

I think that knowing English should be a requirement for things like
registering a vehicle (in an English-speaking country). Some people don't.

BTW, once when I was in Lowe's,

I misread that as "Once when I was in love" and feared you were going to talk about inter-racial sex.

I noticed the sign for "customer
service" was in FIVE languages. English, Spanish, French, and the other
two might have been Japanese and Russian.

That's ridiculous. When in Rome do as the Romans do, especially speaking the right language!

On Fri, 05 Oct 2018 18:37:17 +0100, Mark Lloyd wrote:

On 10/05/2018 09:38 AM, Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote:

[snip]

You can always feed paper piece by piece to avoid the paper jam problem.
Maybe the paper you are using are too thin or too rough. For new paper,
you need to fan them.


My Brother laser has a slot in the front so it's easy to feed single
sheets. Paper in it overrides using the normal feeder.

My last Epson inkjet actually couldn't take one sheet. If I put in one, it refused to take it. If I put in any number greater than one, it used all but the last, then failed.

On Fri, 05 Oct 2018 15:05:18 +0100, NotMe wrote:

On 10/5/2018 8:19 AM, Jimmy Wilkinson Knife wrote:
On Thu, 04 Oct 2018 23:56:03 +0100, NotMe wrote:

You didn't look up "half tone" eh?

I vaguely remember it as lots of little dots, seems pointless to me.

Now that was funny. I hope it was meant to be.

Learn to quote.
Learn to thread.

Why should I bother when every other post has all the information I need right there inside it? All you need is "Jimmy Wilkinson Knife wrote".

On Fri, 05 Oct 2018 18:34:38 +0100, notX wrote:

On 10/05/2018 09:05 AM, NotMe wrote:

[snip]

Learn to quote.
Learn to thread.

If nothing else, learn SOMETHING.

I'm learning which of you are ****wits.

On Fri, 05 Oct 2018 14:45:06 +0100, Jonathan N. Little wrote:

Jimmy Wilkinson Knife wrote:
On Fri, 05 Oct 2018 03:47:59 +0100, Jonathan N. Little
wrote:

Jimmy Wilkinson Knife wrote:
On Thu, 04 Oct 2018 16:00:58 +0100, Mark Lloyd wrote:

In rural areas mail is delivered only on one side of the road.

What happens if you live on the other side?!

Ah...you walk across the street and open your box to get your mail. If
it is a rural area houses can be 1/4, 1/2 mile or more apart. In USA we
have many states larger that your country...rural can be really rural.

So your mail which is your property is left in a box which isn't on your
property? No thanks.

1) It is a federal crime with heavy penalties for unauthorized access
(either inserting or removal of items).

I've heard this before, and it's laughable. More than one postal service must operate, then there's people dropping off Christmas cards etc. So saying it's an offence to put something into someone's mailbox is astronomically absurd.

2) It ain't up to you. USPS dictates where the box goes. If you don't
like it you have you get a PO Box...If you think 1000 ft walk is
inconvenient consider a 9 mile drive.

You really need to get rid of that postal service.