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 said...

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

Pam said...

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.