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Mar. 16th, 2006 08:43 amWe have a Bizhub C350 photocopier/printer on our floor. I think the eventual plan is for all of the printing to go through it, although this is a bit insane when you have production and editorial (plus marketing and sales) on the same floor.
Anyway, luckily we still have several old Laser printers. The ones with one message and one message only: "Paper Jam".
The new Bizhub C350 seems to want to be your friend. Because it can cope with 50,000 different paper sizes, paper stock types, rotations, stapling, collating and, for all I know, doing the washing up, it is, well, complicated. Did I mention that it was a photocopier as well?
I looked up the manual online once, in an attempt to solve a particularly tricky problem. The manual runs to 180 pages or thereabouts.
Yesterday I went to photocopy yet another incorrect tax demand, only to see the message:
"The following items will need to be replaced soon:
1) Paper dust remover/ozone filter
2) Image transfer roller unit.
I mean, what was wrong with the old message of "Paper Jam"? It's not even as if I need to do anything about the ozone filter now. It's more as if the photocopier/printer wants me to hang around and have a chat with it about the threat to the ozone layer. I was irresistibly reminded of the toaster in Red Dwarf
And what, I wondered, was an "image transfer roller unit"? I mean, it's all very well telling me that it will need to be replaced soon, but, well, surely, it should provide more details? Preferably, who I should go to see about this. Shouldn't the screen add the helpful addendum "(see Sue on the second floor)"?
As it is, I'm sitting here worrying about the ozone filter so much that I can hardly bring myself to do any work.
Anyway, luckily we still have several old Laser printers. The ones with one message and one message only: "Paper Jam".
The new Bizhub C350 seems to want to be your friend. Because it can cope with 50,000 different paper sizes, paper stock types, rotations, stapling, collating and, for all I know, doing the washing up, it is, well, complicated. Did I mention that it was a photocopier as well?
I looked up the manual online once, in an attempt to solve a particularly tricky problem. The manual runs to 180 pages or thereabouts.
Yesterday I went to photocopy yet another incorrect tax demand, only to see the message:
"The following items will need to be replaced soon:
1) Paper dust remover/ozone filter
2) Image transfer roller unit.
I mean, what was wrong with the old message of "Paper Jam"? It's not even as if I need to do anything about the ozone filter now. It's more as if the photocopier/printer wants me to hang around and have a chat with it about the threat to the ozone layer. I was irresistibly reminded of the toaster in Red Dwarf
And what, I wondered, was an "image transfer roller unit"? I mean, it's all very well telling me that it will need to be replaced soon, but, well, surely, it should provide more details? Preferably, who I should go to see about this. Shouldn't the screen add the helpful addendum "(see Sue on the second floor)"?
As it is, I'm sitting here worrying about the ozone filter so much that I can hardly bring myself to do any work.
