I had to re-print my philosophy paper. I noticed that the formatting was screwed up, plus a few typos had to be corrected. Just in case you ever have to print anything, here's a small suggestion:





Don't use my printer.





See, my printer, an HP DeskJet 640, theoretically prints at "Up to" 4 pages per minute in black and white (2 pPM color). That is apparently based on the AMount of time it takes to feed through a blank sheet of paper, because if you actually have anything to print on the page, it gets slower. I timed a sheet of 12-point, single-spaced, black-on-white Helvetica at 96 seconds, so it's real world performance is somewhere around .67 pPM.





There's more.





If you want to print a document longer than a few pages, it will at some point try to feed the entire contents of the paper tray through the printer as one sheet. This is an inevitability; no what you do, it will happen. And it doesn't fail gracefully either. It is incapable of realizing when an entire stack of paper is stuck in its rollers, so it continues trying to print, making a lovely grinding sound while wasting ink and making a mess of the top sheet.





Stop the print job.


Open the lid.


Lift the rollers.


Remove the paper.


Take off the top sheet. ]


Put the remaining paper back in the paper tray.


Look at what pages it has printed so far.


Start a new print job for the remaining pages.





I swear I have done this for every decent-length paper I've printed this semester. All in all, mechanical problems included, I can print a 10-page document in about 40 minutes.





I'm getting pretty good at this.
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