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"My Printer ain't working" came the plaintive cry from the office.
Out I wander, confident of simple resolution to this problem.
"Printer Error - See Documentation"
That's all it said, no clues, no codes, nothing to go by.
Turn off Printer, Turn on Printer.
No change.
Go to Printer controls on the computer and there seems to be no problem, it is there and clearly seen, not greyed out.
Check the connections, all is well.
Open up the guts to check for paper jams, nada.
OK, reboot the system, no good.
I am about to give up as it is getting rather late in the day and as I stand up I look down an notice one of these[^] in the rear, vertical paper reservoir.
I try to pick it out and realise it is jammed solid. Fortunately there is a letter opener I can use as a lever and I can just get under it and PING! it flies up in the air and arcs gracefully into my hand.
The printer immediately starts doing its warm up routine.
A few minutes later and all is well again.
Moral of this story?
Do not go to a problem with confidence, go expecting the problem to be something you have never encountered before.
And let me say that a small, clear piece of plastic jammed into a small black piece of plastic that is surrounded by other small pieces of plastic that are black, white and clear, is not the easiest thing in the world to find.
The Elf concerned had a word about leaving files atop of printers and has assured me that such an occurrence shall not be repeated.
Meanwhile I return to what I was doing half an hour previously.
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I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave
CCC Link[ ^]
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Dalek Dave wrote: I return to what I was doing half an hour previously.
This afternoon nap won't happen all by itself.
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If I don't get two or three naps in of a day, I am too tired to have a serious sleep in the evening.
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I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave
CCC Link[ ^]
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What is this sleep thing people keep talking about? Sounds exhausting.
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A similar situation happened to me last night. I was building my new PC, and when I slotted the graphics card into the motherboard, the little holes on the card to screw it into the case did not line up with the holes in the case. I tried all sorts of things including completely removing the motherboard from the case. At this point I tried to slide the GPU into the slot on the case without the motherboard present and it still didn't line up properly. After some wiggling, there was a clicking sound, and the holes lined up, but I couldn't move the card anymore.
After some more wiggling, I was able to determine that the problem was one of these[^]. The little plastic plug in the HDMI port of the card was preventing it from fitting in the proper place. 
I removed the guilty plug, re-installed the motherboard, and then installed the GPU, which fit like a glove this time around... 
The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative. -Winston Churchill
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. -Oscar Wilde
Wow, even the French showed a little more spine than that before they got their sh*t pushed in.[^] -Colin Mullikin
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Printers are the spawn of Satan. True story.
CPallini wrote: You cannot argue with agile people so just take the extreme approach and shoot him.
:Smile:
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I must be the anti-Christ, since this[^] is what I work on.
Software Zen: delete this;
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My daughter is at university and phoned me the other day to say that her printer wasn't working properly and she had tried everything to fix it!
I had anticipated problems when we set her up and had the great idea to get her the same make and model as mine, so I stuck mine in the car and set off to her flat.
I swapped it over, set up the wifi connection and got it working in minutes. I left her with a new set of ink cartridges, and checked that the installed ones had at least 30% levels showing on the monitor.
Within half an hour of getting home she phoned again to say it wasn't printing properly!
That girl is a jinx!
It's well known that if all the cat videos and porn disappeared from the internet there would be only one site left and it would be called whereareallthecatvideosandporn.com
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Dalek Dave wrote: Meanwhile I return to what I was doing half an hour previously.
"Fek all" doesn't constitute doing something you know........ 
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