PSA: If you have a printer quota, use IE, and nef...

[EyeMWing]

Microsoft has a button that sucks bigtime.

My situation was additionally compounded by the fact that I do 500 threads/page and 500 posts/page... I accidentally clicked that and sent a 60pg job to the printer - on my quota of 250 pages.

Fortunately, I managed to abuse my powers fast enough to cancel the job in such a way that it only debited 3 pages from my account (the 2 that were already on the printer and the third that was in transmission)

Don't let this happen to you!


Seriously, why the HELL would you want a one-push print button? That's something you want to CONFIRM *ALWAYS* because there are so many relevant settings... and it actually costs you something (printing resources)

 

[spidey07]

so you just no discovered that windows programs have a print button?

 

[Alkesh]

remove the button

 

[EyeMWing]

Originally posted by: spidey07
so you just no discovered that windows programs have a print button?

An *UNCONFIRMED* print button. It doesn't even give me the standard print window - just dumps sh!t straight to default.

 

[InverseOfNeo]

You know you dont have to display that button, right?

 

[EyeMWing]

Originally posted by: Alkesh
remove the button

Wouldn't do me a whole lotta good, settings aren't sticky

 

[spidey07]

Originally posted by: EyeMWing

Originally posted by: spidey07
so you just no discovered that windows programs have a print button?

An *UNCONFIRMED* print button. It doesn't even give me the standard print window - just dumps sh!t straight to default.

Well yeah dummy. That's what the PRINT button does.

Is this your first time with windows?

 

[EyeMWing]

Originally posted by: spidey07

Originally posted by: EyeMWing

Originally posted by: spidey07
so you just no discovered that windows programs have a print button?

An *UNCONFIRMED* print button. It doesn't even give me the standard print window - just dumps sh!t straight to default.

Well yeah dummy. That's what the PRINT button does.

Is this your first time with windows?

Sorry if I don't just go around printing willy-nilly.

 

[nakedfrog]

/me laughs at EyeMWing's misfortune.

 

[So]

Originally posted by: nakedfrog
/me laughs at EyeMWing's misfortune.

/me joins in and points.

 

[HN]

huh...a printer quota. i'm so sheltered

 

[Howard]

Originally posted by: HN
huh...a printer quota. i'm so sheltered

I have to pay 5 cents per page.

 

[Phoenix86]

Originally posted by: So

Originally posted by: nakedfrog
/me laughs at EyeMWing's misfortune.

/me joins in and points.

Damn, laughing & pointing... owned.

 

[Anubis]

hahahahayou have a print quota

the print button in opera opens the select printer window

 

[EyeMWing]

Originally posted by: Howard

Originally posted by: HN
huh...a printer quota. i'm so sheltered

I have to pay 5 cents per page.

We get 250 free, and SEVEN cents a page after that.

 

[Shawn]

lol, it's always done that. one of the most annoying things about M$ programs EVAR! Text

 

[GeekDrew]

I absolutely hate unconfirmed printing.

I have my default printer set to a PDF Writer, though.... so it's not actually going to go anywhere unless I really intended for it to do so.

 

[EyeMWing]

Originally posted by: GeekDrew
I absolutely hate unconfirmed printing.

I have my default printer set to a PDF Writer, though.... so it's not actually going to go anywhere unless I really intended for it to do so.

I changed the default for this system to the dot matrix trouble ticket printer

Doesn't count against quota and even if you let it print all the way to the end, you get a very comical result

 

[Pepsi90919]

Originally posted by: Shawn
lol, it's always done that. one of the most annoying things about M$ programs EVAR! Text

stop using that retarded pic

 

[Kelvrick]

Doesn't the quick print button in Word do the same thing?

 

[EyeMWing]

Originally posted by: Kelvrick
Doesn't the quick print button in Word do the same thing?

Presumably - but it's not large and is very difficult to accidentally click on.

 

[Howard]

Originally posted by: EyeMWing

Originally posted by: Howard

Originally posted by: HN
huh...a printer quota. i'm so sheltered

I have to pay 5 cents per page.

We get 250 free, and SEVEN cents a page after that.

I don't have to print 250 pages (your quote is per year?) per year. More like 10-20 pages, at most.

 

[Anubis]

why are you useing IE?

 

[EyeMWing]

Originally posted by: Howard

Originally posted by: EyeMWing

Originally posted by: Howard

Originally posted by: HN
huh...a printer quota. i'm so sheltered

I have to pay 5 cents per page.

We get 250 free, and SEVEN cents a page after that.

I don't have to print 250 pages (your quote is per year?) per year. More like 10-20 pages, at most.

Per semester - and IST is a paper-heavy major... But the elementary ed people are ALREADY running out. Of course, they're stupid as tar, and I suspect there's no good reason they're printing out 20-slide Powerpoints with one slide/page

 

[EyeMWing]

Originally posted by: Anubis
why are you useing IE?

Because the Firefox icon is buried and I can't be arsed to go through the start menu all the damned time to find it.