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In article <4140@tekig4.LEN.TEK.COM>, briand@tekig4.LEN.TEK.COM (Brian Diehm) writes:
> Amusing anecdote time. It's related, but not necessary to solve your problem.

This is not related, but amazes me none the least.

One of the labs on campus purchased a new LaserWriter IINTX.  As is normal,
this machine came with the standard styrofoam, plastic, and tape strips on
the inside of the printer which are supposed to be removed before the
printer is used.  Well, these people must have missed that part of the
instructions.

But they did install the toner cartridge.  I don't know how they didn't see
the other stuff on the inside of the printer at the same time.

So the next day I received a call from these people complaining about their
new printer.  "We must have gotten a bad one."  They said that it first
would print with brown streaks down each page, and then after 10 or 15 pages,
it wouldn't print at all.

I went over to check it out.  I discovered the the brown streaks were from
the tape/plastic/styrofoam in the printer: it was smoldering.  After letting
it cool down, I gave the insides a very complete cleaning.  We then tried to
print again.  No more brown streaks, but still nothing on the page.  So I
checked the toner cartridge.  They hadn't pulled the plastic strip out of it.
Now I am beginning to think that they didn't read any instructions.

They lucked out: they averted a major catastrophy.  After a few more hours,
the laser printer probably would have started on fire which probably would
have trashed it (and I don't think Apple's 90-day warranty would cover
something like that; maybe you should hope that you bought it with the
American Express card).  But that wouldn't have been the worst of it.  Whoever
designed the room never intended for it to be used for a computer lab:
it had water sprinklers in it (you know: to put out fires).  All $200,000
worth of equipment would have been heavily damaged.  And they would have
blamed Apple for it all...

-Michael

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