Print for victory

I swear the printer where I work is either cursed or possessed. It's been going wrong roughly once a week for the last several months - it usually starts out by telling you to remove and shake the cyan toner cartridge, which our poor IT chap has done so often the tissue turns blue when he blows his nose. (In a hundred years people will react to that the way we react to Victorian factories with no safety barriers around the machinery.)

Most recently, Nervous Breakdown Printer has got itself into a state where colour printing doesn't work at all - and better yet, even *receiving* a print request for a document in colour crashes it completely and it has to be restarted. We are told that some internal part which had completely seized up has been identified and is to be replaced this week, but we've heard that before as well.

So. If I want to print anything in colour at the moment, I need Mad For It Printer Guy. He is a USB drive: I put the file on him, take him to the admin office and get hapless blue tissue toting IT guy to send the print request to the humble but willing backup printer. I originally borrowed him (from hapless, blue-tissue-toting IT guy) to print front covers on card on Nervous Breakdown Printer; Nervous Breakdown Printer has a USB port you can use to load documents from and a manual feed tray for the card, though it tends to get upset about people using the tray (you have to be gentle and tell it how good it is afterwards). Printer Guy came with the mad-for-it grin already in place. I rather like him.

Here, he is justifiably celebrating the successful print run you can just see on the left of the picture. Hail to Mad For It Printer Guy, for he is the bringer of victory!