My professor sent over a ‘handbook’ for our upcoming exam and suggested that we print it, failing to mention that it was 370+ pages of A4 when formatted as a word document.
So far it has taken me just over three hours, I’ve had to go upstairs to find paper twice and replace the ink cartridge partway through. It’s on page 250, but I’m too committed at this point to give up. My hands are riddled with papercuts, the cat is screaming at me because he wants to go to bed.
I’m supposed to be up early tomorrow, and tonight was the night I told myself I’d fix my sleep schedule.
I’ve heard of printers being able to smell fear and knowing when you’re stressed, but I didn’t realise they actively arrived to keep you awake at night also.
TL:DR Didn’t check the document size, have been printing ‘handbook’ for three hours.
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How do you not do print preview or even look at the document before printing it?
If you unplug the printer, it stops printing 😉
Haha, oh no, the late-night 3D print chaos! Maybe stick to printing in the daylight next time. What was the cursed file, tho?
At first I thought this was 3D printing before reading the post and realizing ya meant a paper printer. My bad
I had a 200 pg assignment that had to be printed. I also printed a textbook so yeah, it sucks. It took me hours to print
You could just, you know, turn off the printer? The print job disappears from the computer/tablet once it starts printing.
Your professor just likes to watch the world burn if he told everybody to print it out
Go to a printing shop and get it printed there. Will probably cost you less, and they’ll do the work of binding it for you.
It’ll take a digital print shop about 15-20 minutes to print that for you and it’ll be cheaper than the ink. They can then bind it for you into a couple of different options.
I’m only slightly younger than dirt, but when I had professors who wanted you to have 300 pages of their “wisdom” they had you go buy it at Kinko’s.
Live and learn.
Man some people just rawdog ctrl-p like paper grows on trees on something
Uh huh
You effed up when someone told you to print something and then you did. Who prints things anymore, just read the doc on your phone/laptop.
You need to publicly shame that idiot professor.
> failing to mention that it was 370+ pages of A4 when formatted as a word document
Printed 4up double-sided that’s just a bit less than 50 physical A4s.
This doesn’t make any sense. Unless you are using some dot matrix printer from the 80s, any relatively modern (last 20 years) and even absolutely shitty inkjet is still gonna pound out 3-5 pages a minute unless this is like full ink color printing or something. It taking 3+ hours to print a 370 page document is way below even the slowest speeds that an inkjet would do. What are you leaving out.
Obviously it is too late for OP but I wonder if staples or fedex would be a good option in a situation like this if you wanted it on paper. There are online book printing services too.
I’m sure you won’t get to the back on the first day. Finish it later lol.
If you’re printing stuff like that you really want a b&w laser. Way faster abd cheaper. I never personally print photos so got off the inkjet extortion system over a decade ago and never looked back.
Your printer takes an hour to print 100 pages? I do that at work in 20 minutes.
You know you can just pause or cancel a print job once it started right?
If you’re serious about fixing your sleep schedule you would be doing this hours earlier and 9-10 is your winddown time or already in bed 🛌
You didn’t look at the number of pages when you went to print it? Rookie move.
Generally I just brought stuff like that during college to the local print shop so they could print and bind it for me.
I’m not sure why everyone is bagging on you. I love your story and it makes me feel better about the dumb stuff I do. Like trying to get my teens to eat salad on a Saturday night
You didn’t notice the file taking longer to load? It’s not a small file by any stretch of the imagination.
At least it’s not a dot matrix printer. That will keep you awake.
Yeah idk what the Prof was thinking unless it’s one of those “You can have the textbook or a printout of the textbook to use for exams” type deal because it’s infinitely easier to search for things in PDF format than on paper