Copy that
I got a new printer today.
It’s an advance birthday present from Herself. She knew I was pissed off with the old one as I have had it for over twenty years and there were bits missing, bits broken and generally it was a mess. Not unlike myself, I suppose?
Anyway I took delivery and unpacked it. Here we have the Tardis principle in action again – the volume of packaging, plastic and cardboard far exceeds the capacity of the original box. I don’t know how they do it. The floor was covered in stuff.
Then I set about setting it up.
I know a bit about computers. I can partition hard disks, install just about any flavour of operating system and all with my eyes closed and both hands tied behind my back. Easy peasy. But printers……… ?? Fuck!
What is it about printers that they are such a pain in the hole to get printing?
The instructions were pretty useless as they just showed a series of sketches with no mention of how to do such trivial things as inserting ink cartridges. I had to hunt to even find the socket for the power lead.
I finally managed it, but not before I lost my pipe in the chaos.
Maybe next year I’ll get a 3D printer and print off a whole series of pipes?
Anyway… a big thank you to Herself.
My own little Gutenberg.
Maybe you have seen the Internet comment: I don’t know what machine “Rage Against the Machine” was about but I’m pretty sure it was a printer.
In my old days managing desktop systems for large corporates, more than 40% of the support calls were about printers. The ‘paperless office’ couldn’t come soon enough.
I am firmly convinced that the folks who write the instructions for most any contraption (such as printers) think at various points in the process that “I don’t need to explain how to do steps 3,7, or 12 any fool knows this.
(I am living proof that no, any fool does NOT know this!)