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Gear Grinding 7: Really? This crap again?

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dxmnkd316 said:
I've wasted thousands of dollars trying to get this thing to work and having to confirm my choice of "color, single sided". Thousands.

It's a terrible cost-savings measure. It has probably cost our company millions. I wish I were exaggerating.

The biggest problem is that people don't print because they can, they print because it's a productivity enhancer. I recharge between $105 and $330+ depending on the destination. If I waste a single hour per year, I would need to print thousands of pages in color single sided every year.
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They won't even give me color printing access. Won't give it to anyone on my team, because the powers that be have decided that it is not essential for us, or for pretty much all of engineering. It is idiotic.
 
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That's absolutely insane. I only print color for presentations. When its mission critical.

And color only costs like what? $0.08 a page or less?
 
bigblue_dl said:
They won't even give me color printing access. Won't give it to anyone on my team, because the powers that be have decided that it is not essential for us, or for pretty much all of engineering. It is idiotic.
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What's the largest page you can print on? As an accountant, I lived for 11x17 ledger paper.
 
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We can do F on our plotter (color ink)

Laser we can go up to B on color.
 
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11x17 is probably the most common size I print. Letter and C are next.
 
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joecct said:
What's the largest page you can print on? As an accountant, I lived for 11x17 ledger paper.
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we have an HP printer that allows for custom sizes, within the limits of the manual feed. We have glued two 11x17 pages together with a 1" overlap to create 11x33 and printed on that a few times.
 
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Since people were just discussing work laptops. My Dell just gave me the blue screen of death this morning, and its been 45 minutes, and it still hasn't recovered.
 
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bigblue_dl said:
Since people were just discussing work laptops. My Dell just gave me the blue screen of death this morning, and its been 45 minutes, and it still hasn't recovered.
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Pull the plug, remove the battery and wait a few minutes. Then give it power again and see if it restarts. (You're at the Death screen, how much worse could it get?)


*Not a professional PC tech.
 
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Had the blue screen of death a couple weeks ago. It turned out to be a single corrupt file. Steve_MN (who does tech for a living) fixed it in about 2 minutes.
 
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St. Clown said:
Pull the plug, remove the battery and wait a few minutes. Then give it power again and see if it restarts. (You're at the Death screen, how much worse could it get?)


*Not a professional PC tech.
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Well, the death screen came up, and then from there it said it had recovered to the point it told me it was going to restart. It sat on a "please wait" screen, trying restart for about 45 minutes, or longer. I was writing an email to IT on my phone, and then it finally moved on to the login screen. I logged in, and it seems to be working fine now...I thought it was dead, but it seems to be ok now.
 
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bigblue_dl said:
Well, the death screen came up, and then from there it said it had recovered to the point it told me it was going to restart. It sat on a "please wait" screen, trying restart for about 45 minutes, or longer. I was writing an email to IT on my phone, and then it finally moved on to the login screen. I logged in, and it seems to be working fine now...I thought it was dead, but it seems to be ok now.
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Did anyone else think of the "Bring out your dead!" Monty Python scene? :D
 
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bigblue_dl said:
Well, the death screen came up, and then from there it said it had recovered to the point it told me it was going to restart. It sat on a "please wait" screen, trying restart for about 45 minutes, or longer. I was writing an email to IT on my phone, and then it finally moved on to the login screen. I logged in, and it seems to be working fine now...I thought it was dead, but it seems to be ok now.
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For future use: If you're in the start up process and it's going excruciatingly slow, you can force a hard reset of the system by holding in the power button for five seconds and run very little risk of harming the PC. I got this from either a very cavalier PC tech at work, a very disgruntled PC tech at work on the verge of being fired, or a guy who knows his stuff and has asked to be called the Magic Man on multiple occasions.
 
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St. Clown said:
For future use: If you're in the start up process and it's going excruciatingly slow, you can force a hard reset of the system by holding in the power button for five seconds and run very little risk of harming the PC. I got this from either a very cavalier PC tech at work, a very disgruntled PC tech at work on the verge of being fired, or a guy who knows his stuff and has asked to be called the Magic Man on multiple occasions.
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I have been told the same thing.
 
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St. Clown said:
For future use: If you're in the start up process and it's going excruciatingly slow, you can force a hard reset of the system by holding in the power button for five seconds and run very little risk of harming the PC. I got this from either a very cavalier PC tech at work, a very disgruntled PC tech at work on the verge of being fired, or a guy who knows his stuff and has asked to be called the Magic Man on multiple occasions.
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I did that. After about 20 minutes of seeing "Please Wait" it restarted, and sat on the same "Please Wait" screen for another 25 minutes before going to the logon screen.
 
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Hard resets pose almost zero risk. It's extremely common. All it does is force a shutdown of the system.
 
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dxmnkd316 said:
Hard resets pose almost zero risk. It's extremely common. All it does is force a shutdown of the system.
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Depending upon what you're doing in your system, it used to run the risk of corrupting files. If they've found a way to avoid that corruption now, then all the better.
 
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St. Clown said:
Depending upon what you're doing in your system, it used to run the risk of corrupting files. If they've found a way to avoid that corruption now, then all the better.
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I wouldn't hard reset if it I was installing system updates or anything like that. But Windows will fix itself now and has been able to for years. Most of the time your work is autosaved now. In fact, Office products can recall multiple autosave revisions. In my opinion, if you're at the point you're doing a hard reset, you're screwed anyways.
 
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dxmnkd316 said:
I wouldn't hard reset if it I was installing system updates or anything like that. But Windows will fix itself now and has been able to for years. Most of the time your work is autosaved now. In fact, Office products can recall multiple autosave revisions. In my opinion, if you're at the point you're doing a hard reset, you're screwed anyways.
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Although they'll still break when trying to run update if you hard-reset.
 
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Great. THere's a girl at work who's obviously very sick. Yet she still feels the need to come in and get everyone sick. I hate these people so, so much.
 
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