Reply to post: Re: I hate the bastards

Why is the printer spouting nonsense... and who on earth tried to wire this plug?

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Anonymous Coward

Re: I hate the bastards

HP used to be great at handling odd paper sizes. Used an HP5si for about 20 years. I don't know how many times I sent it a datasheet formatted for A4 paper. Every time I walked over to see the "load A4 tray1" message I just had to hit the enter button on the printer and it would ask "press enter to print on plain letter".

I miss that 5si, but it eventually started eating more paper than it printed. Even the maintenance kits didn't fix it. Plus some sensors started to die...

(Yes, I know A4 is not a strange paper size in the rest of the world)

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