Why it takes Rolanni so long to make a poster

[rolanni]

Today was a two-poster day. One a b&w for a candidate talk; the other a four-color wonder for a Named Annual Lecture.

Which meant that, today, I got to research the second Sino-Japanese War and The Holocaust. I'm really pretty happy with The Holocaust poster (inasmuch as one can be "happy" with the artsy bits while wishing that more scholarly talks were on...less fraught topics -- is there no pleasant history?) Also, I got to unjam the photocopier about a billion times (Dear Admin: less cheesy paper would jam less often. I'm just sayin'. Sincerely, the Crank at the top of the Library), and order a heavy-duty stapler. This after having come in early so that I could run the Highly Confidential Print Job on the community printer before anybody got in -- which was not all bad. Any excuse is a good enough excuse for a Tim Horton's breakfast, though I totally failed to win a Toyota Venze or ten thousand clams, or even a years' worth of coffee. Some days, the luck is looking elsewhere.

The afternoon is almost over.

This? Is a good thing.

Comments

[mbarker.livejournal.com]

Not sure if this would apply in your case, and it will seem as if I'm going sideways at first, but -- at one time in Massachusetts, we had a copier with a serious paper feeder. You could fit something like 5 reams into that thing at once. And it jammed repeatedly. Finally the paper supplier, as I remember, suggested to us that the humidity level in packages of paper is designed to work well with the copiers, and that opening them and putting them into that paper feeder left them at the mercy of the weather -- which was too damp. Of course, we got that silly feeder so that we wouldn't spend so much time opening new packs of paper, but . . . we did quit putting in as much at one time, and it did seem to feed better. Just don't ask me why everyone thought opening five reams at a time was "faster" than opening the same five reams across a span of time, because I never understood that.

[rolanni.livejournal.com]

Boy, that's a big paper tray.

Damp paper is usually a summer-time problem; it's pretty dry in the winter -- and honestly, the paper doesn't feel damp. It does feel...waxy, like there's a special finish on it. The wrapper says 20# bond, but it's obviously not the stuff we've been getting.

The other factor is that it's a old photocopier and has its crochets, poor thing.