I actually covered this before to some extent in an article I did called "X Marks the Spot" in this group (you can search it) but I came across the problem again on a forum and it played out as an unnecessary comedy of errors. In fact, the person from the forum got a lot of unnecessary attention for putting a few high end printers out of commission and it impacted his temp job.
So here it is again with a little twist:
Problem: We are about to print 200 2x4 labels. We load 20 label sheets into the printer tray. After sending them to print, we go over to the printer to pick them up and they are printed on the wrong side.
1. Now, I can tell you that I have personally watched many a person dump them in the garbage at this point. But this person, in this scenario, said hey! I will just turn them over and put them through again.
2. Okay, so he turns them over and sends them to print and this time they print on the proper side meaning the labels! But, upon examining the label sheets he notices that on some of the sheets labels are missing.
3. Where did they go? They are glued and melted on the burning hot roller in the printer. Now running regular documents through that printer results in remnants of glue and label adhering to letters and other legal documents thus making that printer sort of useless until someone scrapes everything off including the molten glue from the labels or in some cases, a service call has to be made in order to replace the roller so that it can be cleaned professionally.
4. So, how do we avoid this scenario? If you should make the initial error (and it is a common error) of putting the labels through on the wrong side, don't use that same printer since it will be burning hot! If you want to run them through again, let the label sheets cool for about 10 minutes and go to a cold printer meaning one that has not just been used. In this way, you can salvage the labels and they are unlikely to come off of the sheets.
This comes up from time to time but now you will know how to handle this situation at work.
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