The Printer Issue Isn’t So Black-And-White

Back in the 1990s, I worked at a place that had a really nice color printer — not laser or inkjet, but I don’t remember what it was. It used special paper, too. It belonged to a different group, but it was sitting in our office area, and we were told not to ever print anything to it because of how expensive it was.

One day, a print job went wrong, and it started spewing out pages of plain-text random characters — obviously, an image incorrectly being processed as text. It couldn’t be stopped, only paused. We paused it and told the printer’s owners about it. They told us to just let it continue.

Okay, you’re fine with dozens of pages of your fancy paper being wasted? Guess us printing one or two color prints won’t be so bad, after all.