Today we were stress-testing the copiers at our department. Actually we had to print the midterm exams for 300 students. Fortunately we have copiers that support duplex printing and automatic binding the copies with retaining clips.
The first copier did fail the stress test in quite an early stage. He started to scan the source documents and printed the first copy. Unfortunately he did not include the last page into the binding with the retaining clip. We first thought this was an accident but this happened as well with the second and the third copy thus we gave up with this copier and went down one floor to the next copier.
With this second copier we started again to scan the source documents but obviously he didn't like them and crippled one page of the source documents. We printed the source documents again and because we started to become paranoid we did this twice. This time the scan completed successfully. Unfortunately I had forgotten to type the number of copies this time and thus the copier only made one. So we scanned the source documents again. The copier didn't like it to scan the same documents again and crippled again one page. We still had the copy of the source document we printed because of our paranoia and started the whole process again. This time the copier succeeded and started to print. The first copies were all perfect. After some time the copier went hot and decided to add a light gray background to every page. This was not a big problem because the text was still perfectly readable but somehow it was a bit annoying. When the printer went really hot (after about 5000 pages) he started as well to omit random pages in the automatic binding mechanism. I will have to count the failed copies tomorrow to decide whether I have to print some more copies.
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