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#3116979 17-Aug-2023 09:20

My last employer did that, thankfully my current employer doesn't. However I am now with F&P and all of their corporate templates are black and white!

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#3117039 17-Aug-2023 09:56

geoffwnz:
Employer: We will install full colour printers.

Employer: We will save money by setting them to default to double sided, black and white printing.

That seems like a great idea, having worked at places where people print tens of thousands of pages [literally!] of stuff single-sided colour that should be double-sided B&W just because it's the default it's good to see some common sense for once.

What situation requires single-sided printing? Is it a law firm? Do they also require blackletter gothic and wax seals?

Edited to add: One section of one of the printer rooms, there's one on each floor.

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#3117072 17-Aug-2023 10:51

neb:
geoffwnz:

Employer: We will install full colour printers.

Employer: We will save money by setting them to default to double sided, black and white printing.

That seems like a great idea, having worked at places where people print tens of thousands of pages [literally!] of stuff single-sided colour that should be double-sided B&W just because it's the default it's good to see some common sense for once. What situation requires single-sided printing? Is it a law firm? Do they also require blackletter gothic and wax seals? Edited to add: One section of one of the printer rooms, there's one on each floor.

"Requires" was probably the wrong word. I agree that in general, most printing is perfectly satisfactory in B&W, double sided.

But whenever I want to print something in colour and/or single sided, it generally takes at least two goes, if not more to get the settings to override the defaults.

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#3117074 17-Aug-2023 10:57

For me, if I print single sided its because I want to record notes on the blank side.

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#3117111 17-Aug-2023 12:07

That PBTech now use PBT Couriers for 2 x MicroSD Cards, Christchurch delivery from their (I assume, as everywhere is showing stock) Christchurch Branch @ $12.85 Delivery!

Ouch Courier prices have jumped! (And changed from CourierPost where at least I knew I'd get it the next day!)

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#3117128 17-Aug-2023 12:39

neb: What situation requires single-sided printing? Is it a law firm? Do they also require blackletter gothic and wax seals? Edited to add: One section of one of the printer rooms, there's one on each floor.

About the only time I ever print anything is because I have to sign it, scan it and send it back... and as most scanners are only single sided a two sided print loses half the pages.

Thankfully, many organisations are finally using digital signing now.

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#3117163 17-Aug-2023 13:40

johno1234:About the only time I ever print anything is because I have to sign it, scan it and send it back... and as most scanners are only single sided a two sided print loses half the pages.

Amazingly I was able to both sell and buy a house last year simply by defacing the PDF of the S&P on a PC. No printing and scanning required anymore!

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#3117166 17-Aug-2023 13:44

cddt:
defacing the PDF of the S&P on a PC.

When you do this just make sure that, seeing as how the VP is such a VIP, you keep the PC on the QT. 'Cause if it leaks to the VC he could end up MIA, and then you'll all be put on KP

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#3117167 17-Aug-2023 13:50

cddt:

johno1234:About the only time I ever print anything is because I have to sign it, scan it and send it back... and as most scanners are only single sided a two sided print loses half the pages.

Amazingly I was able to both sell and buy a house last year simply by defacing the PDF of the S&P on a PC. No printing and scanning required anymore!

Sure, but for a house conveyancing contract I can print, sign and initial all the pages, get my wife to do the same and have it witnessed in about 1/10th of the time it would take to edit the PDF.

Editing the PDF is a bit questionable and out of the question if it needs to be witnessed.

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#3117179 17-Aug-2023 14:09

johno1234:

cddt:

johno1234:About the only time I ever print anything is because I have to sign it, scan it and send it back... and as most scanners are only single sided a two sided print loses half the pages.

Amazingly I was able to both sell and buy a house last year simply by defacing the PDF of the S&P on a PC. No printing and scanning required anymore!

Sure, but for a house conveyancing contract I can print, sign and initial all the pages, get my wife to do the same and have it witnessed in about 1/10th of the time it would take to edit the PDF.

Editing the PDF is a bit questionable and out of the question if it needs to be witnessed.

You might edit a PDF for simpler things (I do all the time with NDAs and other stuff here) but if you want digital signatures then something like Docusign (or a similar service) is the way to go. One party creates the PDF with everything in it, the only thing needed is the signature/initials. Everyone involved receives an email an simply clicks the places where to put the signature or initials. Done. No time lost.

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#3117243 17-Aug-2023 17:13

Wanting to check the status of my power feed-in with Contact and seeing that their accounting is around three days behind in terms of the day it displays.

And if you change the displayed amount from kWh to dollars it only displays a few days, with everything more than a few days in the past being set to zero.

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#3117267 17-Aug-2023 18:19

Cooking and baking contest TV shows...

(...I used to quite like them...15 bloody years ago).

Sometimes I use big words I don't always fully understand in an effort to make myself sound more photosynthesis.

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#3117367 18-Aug-2023 01:52

Trans women banned from world chess events while review takes place

The usual excuse for this bollocks is that men have a genetic advantage over women in sports and so trans women can't be permitted to take part in female sports [*].

In this case the chess federation has presumably decided that men also have a genetic advantage over women in terms of intelligence and so trans women can't be permitted to take part in female chess tournaments.

[*] "Bollocks" because Retrumplicans in the US have proposed some 450 pieces of transphobic legislation without ever being able to produce any evidence of an actual problem that the legislation addresses. Usually they'll eventually admit there's no evidence when questioned about it, although in some cases they've simply invented things to justify the legislation.

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#3117368 18-Aug-2023 02:10

neb: Trans women banned from world chess events while review takes place The usual excuse for this bollocks is that men have a genetic advantage over women in sports and so trans women can't be permitted to take part in female sports [*]. In this case the chess federation has presumably decided that men also have a genetic advantage over women in terms of intelligence and so trans women can't be permitted to take part in female chess tournaments. [*] "Bollocks" because Retrumplicans in the US have proposed some 450 pieces of transphobic legislation without ever being able to produce any evidence of an actual problem that the legislation addresses. Usually they'll eventually admit there's no evidence when questioned about it, although in some cases they've simply invented things to justify the legislation.

I keep hoping an activist group of bearded muscular trans men will invade public toilets in the USA waving their birth certificates and demanding to use the female facilities.

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#3117385 18-Aug-2023 07:48

neb: Trans women banned from world chess events while review takes place The usual excuse for this bollocks is that men have a genetic advantage over women in sports and so trans women can't be permitted to take part in female sports [*]. In this case the chess federation has presumably decided that men also have a genetic advantage over women in terms of intelligence and so trans women can't be permitted to take part in female chess tournaments. [*] "Bollocks" because Retrumplicans in the US have proposed some 450 pieces of transphobic legislation without ever being able to produce any evidence of an actual problem that the legislation addresses. Usually they'll eventually admit there's no evidence when questioned about it, although in some cases they've simply invented things to justify the legislation.

Political machinations aside, I don't think borne female competitors in sports like swimming, powerlifting, athletics and so on objecting to borne males competing with them and using their showers is bollocks, is it?

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