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Epson's Female Printer
zmcnulty writes "I finished translating the K-Tai Watch (Japanese) article about a new printer in the Colorio line from Epson. It's not only being marketed at women, it was completely designed by 'Team8' - an all-female project team created within Epson specifically for making a printer 'easy for women to use.'
Here is the original Japanese press release." Apparently they've been reading these studies.
Careful, guys!
It'll work well for the first few months then get tempermental. You'll be getting ready for work when a sheet of paper prints out saying "You're not wearing that are you?"
It'll start being non-responsive for a few consecutive days per month and have the odd spill of red ink on your important work. Then it'll start to cost you loads of cash in consumables.
You'll come home to printouts in the tray saying "You never take me to Best Buy anymore..." Finally, after a hard day at work, you'll get back to your abode only to find a Post-It note on the refrigerator saying "Moved out with the iPod, he understands me."
No siree.. give me a He-Man HP LaserJet anyday.
Trolling is a art,
Does it still say PC Load Letter?
...are we going to get the MAN'S printer??? Sexist bastards!
And it connects to the computer with a DB25 female instead of a DB25 male, right?
===== Murphy's Law is recursive. =====
This thing sucks... Every 28 days it locks up and I cant use it for like a week.
This is just a Scam to sell cartridges. Who needs "black, red, yellow and blue" when you can have "puce, rose, lavender and turquoise"?
Scented inks, anybody?
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I called it a 'fucking bitch' more times than I can count.
If the printer is being used by a male (via the BO sensor), first thing it will ask is "Does the letter look fat in font size 14?".
Rock that crushes, Paper & Scissors that don't matter.
You're gonna get a ton of replies to that along the lines of "Haha, have you seen most women try to operate hardware, lol!". Watch what you start, this could get nasty.
Just like a guys printer. Only not as smart and worse at sports.
The main difference is its been designed to handle 2 inch Lee Press-Ons nails.
This is a test. This is a test of the emergency sig system. This has been only a test.
Haha, have you seen most women try to operate hardware, lol!
(too easy)
Put a big green button on it, labelled, "Yes, dear. I'm sorry. You were right."
How about one designed for men? The Epson I have seems to have been designed to be used by a robot.
I mean a real man's printer would weigh about 100 pounds, have a titanium shell, be able to hold 1,000 sheets of paper at a time. The cables that come with it would be an inch thick with massive connectors on each end that make satisfying "clunk" sounds when plugged in and lock into place. Every component would be made of steel: form feed would be achieved by pulling some burnished lever requiring manly strength that would mechanically push the paper through. And paper jams? There'd be no paper jams, if the paper wasn't in the right place the printer would crush it into oblivion.
Oh and the GIMP-Print people would already have a driver for it ready to go when I bring it home.
John.
Now to make a car that women can drive, and we are all set...
for the last time people, I am "frodo from middle eaRTH", not "middle eaST".
installing it on a high shelf.
I ought to have a whole herd o' them thangs purty soon!
See what I've been reading.
We know women don't make good drivers.
It comes in Ferrari red with black rubber grips, and a black leather "sports" dust cover. The feed trays are made of diamond pattern steel plate.
It has curves like a lotus, and when it prints, a speaker simulates the sound of someone revving a Harley Davidson. Spoiler, drilled aluminum function keys, and a portable base with 110-spoke alloy rimmed casters are available as a special option package.
The top of the printer also has special recesses for holding a beer and a remote control.
Can anyone tell me how to set my sig on Slashdot?
Designed by women.
Does it leak red ink a few days a month?
(I am so going to hell)
Are countertops designed around a woman's height?
Kitchen countertops are.
Are doors built to accomodate pregnant women?
Yow! I'd like to see the pregnant woman who could not get through a door a Pittsburg Steeler's linebacker could not!
Are computers designed to accomodate women's cultural thought processes?
No, computers are completely logical, with no hint of neuroses.
Mod down people who tell people how to mod in their sigs
it's just the handle strikes me as useless.
Ironically, a lot of women say the same thing about men.
Two years later:
Well honey, it's been fun, but I just saw a smaller, younger, faster, sexier model I just have to have. Don't worry though, I know a guy who's really desperate and I told him I would let him have you.
No, the female printer analogy is much more accurate. Cheap to begin with and always going for the Lock-in.
Ironically, a lot of women say the same thing about men.
So why is the first thing they do upon deciding that going to a store and buying just the handle?
I'd like to see one of those fix the car or move the piano.
KFG
Printer pr0n.
Sooo... is the hood welded shut? ;)
HitScan
female printer? i'd never buy one of those. I have a hard enough time keeping my blasted slave drives.
One week a month the thing prints out only in red. Total mess.
...are we going to get the MAN'S printer??? Sexist bastards!
OK, way too much time spent on unix today. My immediate thought was "There is no manual entry for 'printer'".
However it does lead on to another thought - how to finally move Linux on to the average home desktop. Clearly it too needs to be more female-friendly. And I know just the way to do it...
To go with the man command, there needs to be a woman command. It should pull the man entry, then pull google's "I'm feeling lucky" entries to replace every word in it. The end result is something that doesn't really tell you anything useful, takes way longer to get to the point than man would do, but gives the user a reassuring feeling that they've really shared with the command.
Given all the creative types on slashdot, I'm sure we could have a script working within the afternoon, in all the main distributions by the end of the week and Microsoft finally bannished within the month.
They are clearly labeled whether they are Female or Male on each end. Does it get more gender specific than that?
I can count to 1023 on my hands. Ask me about #132.
I can't be the only one that thought "cool, now I can print my own girlfriend"
So I've been told...
Q: "What's the penalty for bigamy?"
A: "Having two wives."
the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
I made the mistake of buying one of these printers. In the store, it printed everything I asked. Now that I get it home it only prints twice a month if I'm lucky, even then it complains half the time
and with such a stunning deluge of churlish "humour" about women it has suddenly become apparent to me why computer programmers can never get dates!
2 1337 4 u!
I'm male, which is irrelevant.
I just go about my day assuming everyone is stupid - stupider than I am. I'm usually right, and when I'm wrong, that smarter person just assumes I'm stupid like everyone else.
Printer for woman features
Known problems:
MMO Quests are like orgasms:
You may solo them, I prefer them in a group.
...That we now have mice with no balls. Printers are tempermental enough, damn it! ;)
But if you do aim at the ground and miss, you just learned how to fly. Or, I guess the dart did. Whatever.
that all people lack technical proficiency. This allows me to be pleasantly surprised, rather than disappointed, when I find out that the support technician on the other end actually knows how to turn his/her _own_ computer on, and that no, it really isn't a drink holder.:-P
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No hint of neuroses? You obviously haven't used Windows lately.
I still have more fans than freaks. WTF is wrong with you people?
This gender specific stuff is idiotic. Printers for women only? What are they going to do?
Print on politically correct 6 by 8 inches paper?
Each printout will have a pink boundary?
It will be tuned to your biological clock and avoid printing in red for a few days?
Photos containing photos of violence, guns etc will be left out like that currency thing?
This printer can fit in your handbag you purchased for 1200 from prada?
If you're ugly, will it make you look good?
Epson's next going to come out with wood color printers that look like ammo boxes for the guys?
I mean wtf is this?
Gamingmuseum.com: Give your 3D accelerator a rest.
One of my favorite things to do when I get in these stores (window-shopping or...whatever) is to find aforementioned know-it-all 17-year-old and start to ask really stupid questions about the PCs. Things like, "Does this come with a hard drive?", and "Will it run Lie-Nucks? I've heard Lie-nucks is good."
After I have him hooked, I start to ask progressively harder questions, and love to watch the snotty attitude disappear, to soon be replaced (witnessing this is priceless) by panic as I start to ask questions about seek times, platter count, Firewire vs. USB 2.0 speeds, power supply wattage, etc.
It's sooooo much fun to get those little fuckers in a corner and watch them squirm, after being so smarmy to me at the outset trying to show off thier "knowledge". It's so sad, too, because they were asking, "You want fries with that?" yesterday.
Fuckers.
Oh well, back to cryo-sleep until it all comes together. ;)
"A witty saying proves nothing." ~Voltaire
"d'Oh!" ~Homer
Just a guess, but try pressing the buttons instead of smashing them.
I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate.
When I'm in the mood to print something, its print mechanism aches.
When it is in the mood, it takes forever to get warmed up. When it doesn't successfully print something, it's my fault no matter how long I spend trying to get it to print. Occasionally, it tries to fake printing.
Watch out for a paper jam! That takes months to work its way out....
-fragbait
To take it to Best Buy, you insensitive clod! Didn't you read the parent post?!
Why does a printer need a carrying handle? How often do you move a printer?
Believe me, make it easy to move, and women will move it. Functionality? Bah! There will come a day--and only females know which day that will be--when it has simply been in the same spot too long and must be moved immediately. Look at furniture, for instance. I don't know what great, catastrophic, disaster we are being saved from, but for some reason when a woman has the revelation that "the day" has come, it's an emergency. And it is. Because if you don't help her realize the destiny of every piece of furniture in the house--and I don't care if she wants you to move the dining table so the kids have to crawl under it to get to their seats--she's going to have a splitting headache that will last until you do.
We know how women view electronics..
it's to fool them into thinking it's a purse! They know that women will pay ridiculous amounts of money for purses.
seriously though... this is only going to be discouraging to women in the long run when they get frustrated with how terrible this thing is going to work. The common demoninator among epson inkjets is that they all get clogged heads very easily, eat ink at alarming rates, and are very non-user friendly when it comes to cartridge changing. I've been impressed by their print quality, but I've seen enough epsons to know that they are consistently a pain in the ass.
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Aparently Apple is releasing a new imac, specifically desinged for the ladies. Dont worry guys, there is one for us aswell. Here is the article
The solution is not to create a simplified, pink-themed version of slashot
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It's worth a try.
Who would have thought that thousands of male geeks would spend their time writing millions of posts to
Maybe it would help to add a "changed my mind" option to posting.
Also, adding purple and turquoise to the theme might bring in the younger set.
I think I'll post this as AC.
Does anyone else think it looks like a Cyberman from Dr Who.
Saying Apple is better than MS is like saying Botulism is better than rabies.
The real question: How many females-per-minute can this thing print out?