Sigh.

[shifuimam.livejournal.com]

Dear residents,

What part of "the printer is not a photocopier" don't you understand? Next time, if you're going to print out 50 copies of the same damn thing, use the fucking photocopier.

Your loving lab consultant,

shifuimam

Comments

Might as well save your breath...

[reddalek.livejournal.com]

I have had the same problem so I know how it feels. You can tell the lusers not to, but they will still do it regardless of what you say. I think it is the attitude of: "Well, I am not buying the toner or paper, so fuck it. PRINT ON!"

Had a staff member at work do this. When he had his own inkjet printer, he would print so much that he would have to buy new print cartilages often. When we moved to network lasers, he would do the same thing only this time he would tie up the printer so no one else could print until his extremely large jobs finished.

If you told him about it, he would go "Well, ok. I guess..." and a few days later it would start over again

Thank god he retired.

[drquuxum.livejournal.com]

We actually have two copiers on the network just for that sort of thing -- and some people still print 20 copies of a thesis on the printer.

[kayfox.livejournal.com]

Microsoft bought the Xerox bullshit.

So, all our printers are copiers too.

[devilkitty0.livejournal.com]

We're told to print off multiple copies from the printer, because it was cheaper then using the xerox printer. I love my management team...not.

DK

[ace-brickman.livejournal.com]

have you had to deal with rasterbations over there? those are a beeotch on a lab printer as well.

[jon787.livejournal.com]

What I like is how many student orgs think our high-speed laser printers are there for their use. A couple pages here or there is fine. 100+ flyers to hang up on campus isn't. Its funny, the print queue for each printer is displayed on a screen next to them. They show all the basic job information (username, filename, size) you think people would learn to not print things named "raffle tickets.xls" as it is a dead giveaway of printer abuse.