In the old days people use to fax black pages to companies they were mad at or as a prank. Because fax machines print everything they receive without prompt/preview, it would waste their ink/toner with no way to really prevent the problem except for unplugging the phone line (would also prevent legit faxes from other people) or maybe blocking the remote senders phone number in the PBX if their IT team was that advanced.
Does anyone know why cancelling a job on a printer is such a fucking nightmare? Even on the printer at the office which is a huge multi thousand dollar machine. You cancel a job and it just sits there in both the tray of the computer and on the list of jobs of the printer saying "cancelling job..." for a goddamn age before it finally deletes it. Why is it such a chore for a printer to just quickly cancel a job from its list and move on to the next one? Every single printer I've ever used has been like this.
WombatAnnihilator on March 18th, 2021 at 02:43 UTC »
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4kVHS on March 18th, 2021 at 04:25 UTC »
In the old days people use to fax black pages to companies they were mad at or as a prank. Because fax machines print everything they receive without prompt/preview, it would waste their ink/toner with no way to really prevent the problem except for unplugging the phone line (would also prevent legit faxes from other people) or maybe blocking the remote senders phone number in the PBX if their IT team was that advanced.
cheapdrinks on March 18th, 2021 at 04:27 UTC »
Does anyone know why cancelling a job on a printer is such a fucking nightmare? Even on the printer at the office which is a huge multi thousand dollar machine. You cancel a job and it just sits there in both the tray of the computer and on the list of jobs of the printer saying "cancelling job..." for a goddamn age before it finally deletes it. Why is it such a chore for a printer to just quickly cancel a job from its list and move on to the next one? Every single printer I've ever used has been like this.