About 30 minutes ago I noticed that a couple of people were experiencing printer problems. A few minutes later one of the support specialists came up to see what the problem was. I thought that it was going to be something that could be fixed in a minute or so. After a few minutes more and more people started crowding around the printer, so I decided to check out what the big deal was...
It turns out that the printer is actually "swallowing" the paper. The paper is fed normally, but it doesn't come out. It basically vanishes. There is nothing visibly wrong with it. It just doesn't spit out the printed paper. The support guy checked it inside and outside and says that this shouldn't be occurring (duh). Everyone is perplexed by what is going on. For a moment everyone started sending test pages to see if their paper would disappear as well, until my boss came and told everyone to go back to their desks. Right now everyone basically stopped working and almost everyone is in one way or another wondering what is wrong. There is no easy way to see where the paper is going without disassembling the whole printer... there are like 8 or 9 people standing around the damn printer, including my boss. The printer is a Canon imageRUNNER 7095. I tried to download the manual to see if it says anything about vanishing paper, but it looks like the Canon Downloads website is down..
Some of my co-workers think the paper is jammed inside the printer somewhere, but right now that's an impossibility since there is no physical space for so much paper to fit in it. Some of the more superstitious co-workers think it's "possessed" or something like that. I don't know if they're joking... but one of those co-workers just left the office and said she was never coming back...
I really didn't want to get involved, but I did tell a couple of my close co-workers that according to quantum physics, there is a non-zero probability that the paper is disappearing from the office and reappearing somewhere else in the Universe, but that the chances of that occurring are extremely small, especially when it's not just one sheet of paper, but dozens... They acknowleged my comment but didn't say anything.
It turns out that the printer is actually "swallowing" the paper. The paper is fed normally, but it doesn't come out. It basically vanishes. There is nothing visibly wrong with it. It just doesn't spit out the printed paper. The support guy checked it inside and outside and says that this shouldn't be occurring (duh). Everyone is perplexed by what is going on. For a moment everyone started sending test pages to see if their paper would disappear as well, until my boss came and told everyone to go back to their desks. Right now everyone basically stopped working and almost everyone is in one way or another wondering what is wrong. There is no easy way to see where the paper is going without disassembling the whole printer... there are like 8 or 9 people standing around the damn printer, including my boss. The printer is a Canon imageRUNNER 7095. I tried to download the manual to see if it says anything about vanishing paper, but it looks like the Canon Downloads website is down..
Some of my co-workers think the paper is jammed inside the printer somewhere, but right now that's an impossibility since there is no physical space for so much paper to fit in it. Some of the more superstitious co-workers think it's "possessed" or something like that. I don't know if they're joking... but one of those co-workers just left the office and said she was never coming back...
I really didn't want to get involved, but I did tell a couple of my close co-workers that according to quantum physics, there is a non-zero probability that the paper is disappearing from the office and reappearing somewhere else in the Universe, but that the chances of that occurring are extremely small, especially when it's not just one sheet of paper, but dozens... They acknowleged my comment but didn't say anything.