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altivoAnd then some. Not that this weekend will be any more relaxing, but still.
Printers are a pain in the a**. People who make a fuss about printers are even worse.
Yeah, a good chunk of my time today was wasted on printer bullshit. Not the fault of the print hardware, though. That functions as designed. It's the print queue management, and the lack of formatting capabilities in typical software, and worst of all the horrendous sloppy inefficiency of PDF files. It seems that library users invariably want to print huge Acrobat files that make print queues gag and stall or that overrun the available memory in the printers. Worse, after you make voodoo sacrifices and stand on your head while reciting spells in dead languages to force these awful documents onto paper, then they say "Oh, I only needed this page here. Do I really have to pay for the other sixty?"
Software vendors are no better. Exact same software installed on two machines with the same parameter definition files (copied, so identical) but on one machine the print jobs have a banner sheet while on the other they do not. I want the banner on both, can't make it come out on the second machine no matter what I try. Same printer, so it's not that. Same queue definitions, identical server software and hardware on both machines. Vendor has now been trying to resolve this for TWO days without success.
Ducks: three eggs a day looks like the new normal production rate.
Me: I think it's bed time.
Printers are a pain in the a**. People who make a fuss about printers are even worse.
Yeah, a good chunk of my time today was wasted on printer bullshit. Not the fault of the print hardware, though. That functions as designed. It's the print queue management, and the lack of formatting capabilities in typical software, and worst of all the horrendous sloppy inefficiency of PDF files. It seems that library users invariably want to print huge Acrobat files that make print queues gag and stall or that overrun the available memory in the printers. Worse, after you make voodoo sacrifices and stand on your head while reciting spells in dead languages to force these awful documents onto paper, then they say "Oh, I only needed this page here. Do I really have to pay for the other sixty?"
Software vendors are no better. Exact same software installed on two machines with the same parameter definition files (copied, so identical) but on one machine the print jobs have a banner sheet while on the other they do not. I want the banner on both, can't make it come out on the second machine no matter what I try. Same printer, so it's not that. Same queue definitions, identical server software and hardware on both machines. Vendor has now been trying to resolve this for TWO days without success.
Ducks: three eggs a day looks like the new normal production rate.
Me: I think it's bed time.
