Re: Self obsessed gits

On Thu, 8 Mar 2007 10:49:05 GMT, Dave <jrzoyrl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hmm. I puzzled for a while over a recurring jam I was getting on my nice
Xerox. Everytime the luser put a print job through the external tray,
it jammed. Nothing wrong with the paper, nothing stuck in the printer
that I could find. Couldn't work out why it was jamming, till I noticed
the printed image seemed to be complete, even though the page was
jamming half-way through.

"Err, is this an A4 image?"
"Yes."
"This is A3 paper."
"Yes."
"What size paper did you tell the printer you were using?"
"I dunno. Does it matter?"

Grrrr. Damn thing was expecting A4 paper and getting fed A3. i did try
and explain to the luser why this was causing the printer to choke on
paper it wasn't expecting to exist. Fruitless. That was five minutes of
my life I'm not going to see again.

Any printer that dies simply because the paper's slightly longer than
expected has a major error-handling flaw, though.

Jasper
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