HP Large Printer ....

I was so mad with this printer. Personally I hate waisting papers. But I had to waist them due to the ignorance about accurate functions. This made me almost crazy this Wednesday.

Here is the story. We had a client (Nancy Bradley). She wanted to print out 6 potsers that have different sizes (unit: inch) : 60X12, 15X26,20X38, 42X91.5, and 16X8.5.  According to Brian, the paper we have is 36 (width) and unlimitted (height). So, except one poster, we should be able to print out these posters, but we were not able to figure out how to set up the page settings. First, I asked Brian to figure it out. I guess he was tryintg several ways (e.g., using Publisher software, finding options, etc.) but finally nothing was fruitful, so he said he will go to Butch Hilton to ask. I thought it was good idea; however, we had to finish up this job at least by 2 or 3pm. (Nancy wanted to get it done soon because the event with the posters is at 4pm and she needs to laminate them before the time). Thus, I struggled with it and waisted papers...I was also trying to use Adobe Illustrator to set up the page settings without losing the resolution. But it was vain. Finally, I printed them out by changing the setup options of printer constantly. Nacy liked the outputs.  After that, I became happy. But before that, I was so bad; when Lan came to me and asked going somewhere together I said no. Diana came to me and suggested eating her cakes. I did not go to Diana's birthday celebration. I did not want to pay my attention to any others things than printing. Sorry!!

In reflecting my actions and behaviors, I think I am kind of workaholic (This is not good!! It is a disease!). Also, I tend to struggle with something by myself. In thinking Brian's action, it seems he is wise in terms of the way to solve the problem...I mean ... for the similar struggles, while he went out to get help from experts, I liked digging into and styaing there until it is done. We were diffierent. This made me think about myself. I may need to be wiser in the next time. I realized I did not need to rush like that.

In addition, for the next test of printing posters, Diana and I have prepared a poster to put somewhere in the lab. The poster is what we presented at IVLA 2008. Topic is "design implcations for mobile learing". It was concurrent session but I thought it would be good to reproduce the contents as a poster type so that other people can get some info about mobile learning.

Thus, yesterday, with the help of Brain, (after Butch Hilton came to the lab), I tried to print out the poster, but.. for some reasons, the ouput is incomplete. There were some blank parts. This made me crazy again !!!
Anyway... I gave up this in this moment. You know.. I did not need to rush.