More and more, each and every day, I see how the world is going to hell in that scarce commodity. I coulda been rich.
Since I previously had the good fortune of having a secretary handle my menial tasks, I never really learned to do some of them myself... Like faxing... So when I retired, I didn't have a fax machine, so I got a good scanner and some computer software and it handled all of my faxing quite nicely. Now, however, I purchased an all in one printer. My first attempt at faxing had me scouring the manual looking in vain for an instruction as to how to insert the paper to be faxed... face up or face down. Nowhere... I repeat... NOWHERE in that manual of 14 or so different languages did the engineers down at Hewlett Packard think to insert that simple phrase of "Insert paper face up" (or "face down") as the case may be. Instead they just draw these cutesy little designs on the device itself and assume that everyone can interpret what it denotes. Well, I could not. I doubt that they did this with the thought of saving ink or paper space in the manual of 18 different languages.... I mean, I know all about my printer, copier, faxer scanner in English, German, Mandarin, Sanskrit, Sumerian and 23 other languages.... some probably so ancient as to more properly described as runes. Well, I know most all about my printer, copier, faxer scanner, but not how to properly insert the paper. So not being an engineer, I printed a cover sheet on the reverse side of my printing and just faxed both sides. Take that, Hewlett Packard.
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Wow. Most people would have just put a page in one way or the other and hit copy. Then check to see if it copied (right way) or came out blank (other way). Scanning, copying and faxing would all work the same I'd say - engineering wise. Elementary my dear Holmes. Or you could have pinged your number-1 :-)
ReplyDeleteAll Non-Engineers please disregard this response. TO all Engineers... NO... the copy function does NOT operate the same as the Fax function. The copy function is accomplished by placing the original face down on the glass... The Fax function, however, is accomplished by placing the original in a totally different location and hitting FAX and when the paper goes through, there is no way to know if it faxed the front or the obverse. Got that, Watson?
ReplyDeleteDad, you beat me to the punch. I would venture to guess, that when Faxes were in their prime in office functioning, before the large "cut and paste" email influx, Kevin also had a secretary doing his faxing. I, on the other hand, handled most of it myself, and the fax machine we had at the court always had us insert stuff to be faxed, face up. I have, however, viewed some fax machines in other offices which faxed face down. I don't know why, but it was. Ergo, I will side with Daddo on this one. But while we're on the topic of, "what I would do", how about calling the secretary of someone you know, and let her know you're sending a test fax, and see how it goes. Then you will know which way the wind blows. I, on the other hand, am just beginning to get back my sense of smell, after my influenza and sinus infection had stolen it from me for so long, and hope to be up-wind of it. This is only because it is today that Jimmy's cold has decided to start giving him that really smelly, runny stuff in his pants. I'm sorry, is that too much information? Nonetheless, hope to have regained full capacities for this evening of bbq ribs and chicken, as well as for tomorrow's P&C outing. ...What was the question???
ReplyDeleteWhich model HP please.
ReplyDeleteI have no secretary.
Obviously - Ric is on too many meds as his tangential off-ramp in his post suggests.
I am beginning to think all the males in my family are goofballs!!! Or did I think that before? Hmmmmm
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