Hey, a Rant!
Sep. 26th, 2005 05:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
av8rmikeHate copying machines. HATE THEM. Last week Bob (the GVO director) gave me a bunch of his last originals, contingent on my copying and returning them. For those of you who don't regularly look at music, sheet music is usually printed on large-size paper, like 9"x12" instead of 8.5"x11", is always double-sided, and longer pieces are bound together in book form. So, copying music is a special kind of challenge.
It always takes me three or four tries just to get everything right. Invariably, the first mistake is discovering that I put the original on the glass landscape-orientation, when it has to go portrait. Or the other way around. Second try is the copier "helpfully" selecting reduction mode for 8.5"x11" instead of full-size mode on 11x17 paper. Third and fourth tries is figuring out the duplexing mode, which is different on every copier. Here's something I learned that I swear I never had to do before: When duplexing onto large paper, you actually have to flip the paper and put it on the opposite end of the glass. Last week it took me a dozen or so copies and asking a Kinko's assistant to show me what I was doing wrong. At least today in the office, it didn't take nearly as many attempts to get it right.
Then there's the joy of taping it together, but that one for another day.
It always takes me three or four tries just to get everything right. Invariably, the first mistake is discovering that I put the original on the glass landscape-orientation, when it has to go portrait. Or the other way around. Second try is the copier "helpfully" selecting reduction mode for 8.5"x11" instead of full-size mode on 11x17 paper. Third and fourth tries is figuring out the duplexing mode, which is different on every copier. Here's something I learned that I swear I never had to do before: When duplexing onto large paper, you actually have to flip the paper and put it on the opposite end of the glass. Last week it took me a dozen or so copies and asking a Kinko's assistant to show me what I was doing wrong. At least today in the office, it didn't take nearly as many attempts to get it right.
Then there's the joy of taping it together, but that one for another day.
