Back in the day, consumer level IT was still pretty ropey and you’d expect things to bugger up, especially things like printing. However, it’s 2015, and everything now works pretty well, which is great.
Except envelope printing.
For starters, in MS word you can’t select C5 envelopes as a paper size, you have to select ‘mailings’ then ‘envelope’ for a helpful little wizard that does nothing useful – I expected a **** little paper clip to pop up.
My printer has been refusing to print anything C5 sized, claiming paper mismatch. It has a nice little LCD screen with plenty of space for paper on it, but all the developers saw fit to put on that nice big screen was ‘paper mismatch’. Well, since I’ve set everythign to C5 envelope size, something is clearly not set up well, so why don’t you tell me exactly how big you think the paper is compared to what you were expecting, and perhaps we can work it out? But no, paper mismatch is all we get.
So finally put in a custom size into Word (after struggling with Libre Office) and it prints. I typed in the C5 envelope size manually, exactly as spec, and the printer accepted it fine. So why the **** was it the wrong size five minutes ago?
I’m having flashbacks to 1997.