"Well excuse me for having enormous flaws that I don't work on!" Homer J. Simpson
Tuesday, September 21, 2004
The Error of My Ways
Now I see the error of my ways. Transparencies are not meant to go through laser printers.
And I got kicked out of the blood drive today for bleeding too slow. Can I go home yet?
2 comments:
Anonymous
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Transparencies are plastic. Plastic melts. Laser printers and photocopiers use heat to fuse the toner to the page. That heat melts the plastic. The result is usually a nasty mess.
There is a special type of transparency that can take the heat of printers and copiers. It's more expensive, but it works.
As soon as the smell of burning plastic hit my nostrils, I recalled the mechanics of the laser printer. The printer seems to still be functioning now that I have dug most of the little crumbly chunks of melted transparency out of it. I was just glad the guy who gave me the printer didn't happen to walk into my office then. One sniff and he would have figured the whole thing out.
2 comments:
Transparencies are plastic. Plastic melts. Laser printers and photocopiers use heat to fuse the toner to the page. That heat melts the plastic. The result is usually a nasty mess.
There is a special type of transparency that can take the heat of printers and copiers. It's more expensive, but it works.
--Chosen
As soon as the smell of burning plastic hit my nostrils, I recalled the mechanics of the laser printer. The printer seems to still be functioning now that I have dug most of the little crumbly chunks of melted transparency out of it.
I was just glad the guy who gave me the printer didn't happen to walk into my office then. One sniff and he would have figured the whole thing out.
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