Wednesday, February 13, 2008

Printers

When I say printers I hope you all know I mean the personal and office kind and am not referring to massive printing presses. Anyways, they are an integral part of the whole personal computer and word processing, a giant step away from the steady clack-clack-clack of typewriters. They allow you to print multiple pages rapidly, as well as multiple copies of said pages with should be relative ease. These things have even involved into complex faxer/scanner/telephoner/printers that are capable of doing anything could conceive of doing in a home or professional office. They're pretty handy dandy little machines except for two things.

1) Ink: Apparently printer ink is made out of freaking Gold or something because it costs more then I can afford usually.
2) Technology: Printers are pieces of technology, which means they're never going to work when you really need them to. Which, with printers, is about half of the time. Need to print off a report real quick before school? Forget it, might as well accept that F or the tardy. Need that TPS report for the big meeting in 5 minutes? Psyche, you're gonna get fired. Why is it that printers never work when you really need them too? And, they always find a really convenient reason to not let you print.

Alright, I'm done. Printers get 3 Beards and A Mustache

6 comments:

Tina said...

I think printers deserve a few more beards, i'd say at least 6.
And i think the user of the printer shoudl get 2 beards for thier lack of how to use them. When set up properly, and sufficiantly inked, printers can be close to 10 beards.
Printer Ink on the other hand i agree should only get 2, one for doing its job as intended, and one for being easy to refill/replace. other than that its too expensive for what it really does and runs out way to fast, even the black ink.

Anonymous said...

printers are maybe a scraggle hair that you forgot to shave off in the morning. Who needs a hard copy of anything anymore when everyone and literally their mom have email or some way of getting a technological paper on their computing device. Think if you were summer, as in how many trees and shit we would be saving if there were no more energy, paper and ink wasted on lame old printers.

Summer said...

yay jana! i agree!
i give you, travis, 8 beards for writing this. bc hell i work with printers all day at the office. i share your pain with technology

Austin Morgan said...

Does Google owe you more than four dollars yet?

Unknown said...

It's not technology that doesnt work when we need it to, it is really something called Occams Razor. Simply put, when we need something the most, it fails. Even more simply put, the universe fuckin hates you and loves to kick you when you're down. ha ha ha, gotta love bein put down.

Anonymous said...

I've managed to get my printer to work 95% of the time, which is awesome.

INK BLOWS.

What else blows is when your pinter prints, but prints incorrectly on photo paper - so you waste the costly photo paper and the ink. I've thought about printing all my pics at the office if I could figure out how to do it with out getting caught.

This link will amuse you:
http://www.chrisglass.com/journal/downloads/TPSreport.pdf