Last week I tried to get my invoicing done on Thursday so I could go fishing on Friday. No such luck. I spent the whole afternoon tackling a takeover. Programming and testing was no big deal, and the add-ons the customer purchased made it worth while.
Friday I headed into the office bright and early thinking I would crank them out and get it going. First thing I did was load up a bunch of envelopes in the ol' high (relatively) speed inkjet and set it to print them while I finished invoicing. It trashed more envelopes than it printed. Oh, well. Sent the envelope job to the older printer on the network, and it printed them ok. 2-3 at a time between paper jams. Grrrrrr.....
Thinking to save my self a bunch of time in the future I headed over to the office supply store to buy a new printer. I bought a nice fast laser printer. Spent a half an hour getting it loaded on the network so all the computers could use it, and ran a test page from each machine. Cool. I loaded a stack of window envelopes in the tray and sent a print job to run off a hundred envelopes.... oops. Not a good idea. It melted the window in a dozen envelopes before I could get it shut off. LOL.
Spent the rest of the day printing my envelopes in the old inkjet at slower than crud speeds and unjammed it every few envelopes. I think it actually felt sorry for me, because by the end it was running 30-40 envelopes between jams.
Oh, well. You gotta love this planned obsolescence.