#garfield Logs

Sep 13 2018

12:04 AM rue_bed: I'm going to do a really big horrid update on this laptop, rue_bed may go missing for a while
09:58 AM Tom_itx is now known as Tom_L
08:52 PM zhanx: rue_mohr, ever play with drive-thru timers?
09:08 PM rue_bed: I think I had someone run-over a control box once....
09:08 PM rue_bed: oh, just recently somone backed over a gate controller
09:09 PM rue_bed: they put it all back and had me try to work out why the circuit board wouldn't go.
09:09 PM zhanx: i am reviewing a massive hand book on it
09:10 PM zhanx: monday i am redoing one
09:42 PM rue_mohr: ok
09:42 PM rue_mohr: for parking?
09:42 PM rue_mohr: or for a food place
09:44 PM zhanx: food place
09:44 PM zhanx: KFC
09:45 PM zhanx: let me bore you with this :so i was in Staples today picking up some invoices and paperwork that its cheaper to have them print then print at home. And the Regional Manager was in the store. Asked me If I want to pick up a contract to repair all the printers in the area as they don't have anyone to do it.
09:46 PM zhanx: Monday i have a sit down meeting with him in the store and a conference call to hash out the details
09:47 PM rue_mohr: k
09:47 PM rue_mohr: so, you have gone from being a computer tech to just aprinter tech
09:48 PM rue_mohr: there are that many problems with printers? is EVERYONE using HP???
09:48 PM zhanx: well if it pays the bills better, maybe. Its one of those things, and yes everyone is using HP around here and its tiring
09:52 PM rue_mohr: hah
09:52 PM rue_mohr: I'v had about 25 printers thru here from the hospital,
09:52 PM rue_mohr: HP with BGA problems
09:52 PM zhanx: i can bitch but it pays the bills
09:52 PM rue_mohr: over and over and over
09:52 PM rue_mohr: yea, I just think its funny
09:53 PM zhanx: 4000 series?
09:53 PM rue_mohr: I suppose this dosn't mean you have magic contacts to get new baords for HP printers eh?
09:54 PM zhanx: no, but i can get new boards
09:54 PM rue_mohr: the current shop printer has a ball broken that has to do with the scanners vision
09:54 PM rue_mohr: hmm
09:54 PM rue_mohr: let me go see
09:55 PM zhanx: depending on the model, i can claim its broken on another and get the part
09:55 PM zhanx: which is bad
09:55 PM Tom_L: :o
09:56 PM rue_shop3: laserjet 3390
09:56 PM rue_shop3: I think I have like 3 dead M2727nf
09:56 PM zhanx: 90% of mine are 4000 series
09:56 PM rue_shop3: they have power supply issues
09:57 PM zhanx: with the rest being newer
09:57 PM rue_shop3: I might have some 4000 series, I could check the ~7 printers on the deck right now
09:58 PM zhanx: i have 4 all inkjets
10:00 PM rue_mohr: 3530, 5251
10:00 PM rue_mohr: all these are laser
10:01 PM rue_mohr: but if most places aren't using laser cause the printer itself doesn't live till the end of the first cartridge, I can understand why they would go with inkjet
10:04 PM zhanx: most of my places need better printers than they buy
10:05 PM zhanx: how many pages do you print? well I clear the printer off in the morning and normally its done when I come in if i fill up all 4 trays
10:05 PM zhanx: 10x printers like that
10:16 PM rue_mohr: I think I print about 1000 pages /year
10:17 PM rue_mohr: all the hospital printers come with ink, and some of them even come with full trays of paper
10:17 PM rue_mohr: so I'v never had to buy ink
10:17 PM zhanx: i am a little over 1200 this year so far
10:17 PM zhanx: but i print extra stuff out
10:19 PM rue_mohr: most of it is a page here and there, but every so often I print a 100 page thing
10:20 PM rue_mohr: arg, did I put NiCd or NiMh in this shaver last time???
11:44 PM zhanx: ok think i got this figured out