At 08:14 PM 1/7/02, you wrote:
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> >
> > > For some reason, today whenever I try to print, the computer acts like
> > it's
> > > really busy, then I get an error message telling me that the printer
> > has
> > > experienced a "timeout error". I had not changed anything from the
> > last
> > > time everything worked fine. I try rebooting and the same thing
> > > happens. Any ideas?
> >
> > Check the cables. Turn the printer off and on. Make sure there are no
> > problems with the printer (like out of paper / paper jammed / out of
> > ink), etc. Make sure the printer in 'on-line'.
>Bob Z adds
>Kick it really hard; curse at it; cry; weep; plead;
None of those worked. And I had already checked the obvious ("Make sure
there are no problems with the printer (like out of paper / paper jammed /
out of ink), etc. Make sure the printer in 'on-line'.") However, the
other suggestions ("Check the cables. Turn the printer off and on.") did
the trick.
>ask your teenage son to fix it; ask your preteen daughter to try to fix it.
For better or worse, I have neither of those.
(AFAIK, that is. ;-) )
>Don't ask your IT guy to try to fix it,
Umm . . . guess who is considered the closest thing to an IT guy around here?
>he is exhausted from spending the weekend trying to fix the results of the
>latest software upgrade on Powerscribe (the radiology department's direct
>voice to text transcription software). When all else fails drag out an old
>IBM electric typwriter or a pen and paper.
Unfortunately, what I needed at the time was to print out the syllabus that
was in the computer in time to get it copied prior to the start of class,
and there was not enough time remaining to find the typewriter (a
Smith-Corona manuel model from the early 70s), retype it, the make copies
from an old one and literally cut and paste in the items that cannot be
created on a typewriter, thus my call for help . . .
-- Ronn! :)
Ronn Blankenship
Instructor of Astronomy/Planetary Science
University of Montevallo
Montevallo, AL
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