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Old 08-23-2010, 03:53 PM   #1
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I do have issue with printers too...

Or may be with the guys who devellop the printer drivers...

Why can't they come up with printers that have the same margins (top, left, right, bottom)?

Nearly every time I create a report, the costumer is unhappy because it doesn't print right.
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Old 08-23-2010, 04:52 PM   #2
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Why can't they come up with printers that have the same margins (top, left, right, bottom)?
How 'bout they just WRITE A FUCKING PRINTER DRIVER??

It seems obvious that more time is spent on things like checking how much ink is left in the printer and giving you a handy menu so you can click whether you need to print a photo, or a powerpoint presentation, or an email, etc. than is spent making sure you can actually send stuff out to the printer.

It's almost enough to make me nostalgic for the bad old days of the Epson ESC codes. At least you could tell exactly how things were fucked up.
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Old 08-23-2010, 05:03 PM   #3
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Talk about nostalgia...

MS Word 5.0 back in the early days was about 100k and just about as good as the current version.
No bells-n-whistles, but a easy-to-use word processor.

But then, things were always better back in the dark recesses of my mind.
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Old 08-23-2010, 06:17 PM   #4
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Talk about nostalgia...

MS Word 5.0 back in the early days was about 100k and just about as good as the current version.
No bells-n-whistles, but a easy-to-use word processor.

But then, things were always better back in the dark recesses of my mind.
I was using open office, but it drove me crazy, trying to do what I didn't want to do. Then I found TinyWord, it's wonderful and free.
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Old 08-24-2010, 01:50 AM   #5
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... Nearly every time I create a report, the costumer is unhappy because it doesn't print right.
Well, artists can be difficult to please

I had trouble with my printer for months. Eventually, when I replaced the USB cable, all the troubles were gone

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... it drove me crazy, trying to do what I didn't want to do. ...
I hate software that is trying to guess what I want to do - especially MS WORD and EXCEL. It takes forever to turn off all the automatic formatting/replacing options and even then there are some nauseating "features" left. Gets worse with each new version.

Oh, and I'm a programmer too.

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Old 08-24-2010, 11:27 AM   #6
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Since MS Word replaced the WYSIWYG interface to create headers with an "easier" and "better" menu of canned options, it now takes me about half an hour to figure out how to create a headers as extravagant as the title centered at the top of the page and the page number right justified. Once they start making it "easier" it becomes impossible.
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