It was a quiet day as far as patrons go, but technology prevailed over the humans again today.
The printer that's been giving the library circulation staff hell for 6 weeks decided that today would be a good day to go anarchist. This printer is probably no more than a few months old, maybe a year. It also is unique in that in recent weeks, the spawn of Satan has crawled inside of it and made it go crazy.
Every time we try to use it, something else is wrong with it. It won't print. It will print, but only through the other computer ten feet away from it instead of the one above it. It won't print, but smoke issues from under the hood as little demon voices cackle gleefully.
Today it DID print, but not anything you could understand if you don't understand "I'm sick again; check my temperature," in binary.
I turned it on this morning to print something off for a patron, having already sent the document to it. But what to my wondering eyes did appear but an instant 25 sheets of almost nothing, save one line of text on each page full of pernicious Wingding computer language. And the printer wasn't planning on stopping until I turned it off.
It wasn't until two hours later that we discovered the computer above it also refused to print to any printer at all. It didn't even 'see' them anymore. So check-ins could be done there, but not check-outs.
Steve, a man who speaks better binary than yours truly, took a glance at the sheets of what was the equivalent of the printer heaving its guts and said it was probably the computer's fault. Way to lay the blame down! Something apparently wasn't getting communicated from the computer to the printer and the signal was getting garbled.
Sounds like a relationship problem to me. Maybe they need counseling...or reprogramming with an ax.
I have made a picture of said incident. I think it's called "Communication Problems?"
Enjoy the pic, and cheerio,
Bec
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