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Paper Manufacturer Launches "Print More" Campaign
innocent_white_lamb writes "Domtar, a major North American paper manufacturer, has launched an advertising campaign to encourage people to print more documents on paper. Domtar CEO John Williams opposes campaigns by other companies asking employees to be responsible with what they print. 'Young people really are not printers. When was the last time your children demanded a printer?' Mr. Williams said ... 'We've got to do some work about having them believe and feel that printing isn't a sort of environmental negative.' The industry expects that, absent this campaign, paper demand will decrease by 4% annually. Williams's comments did not go down well in some environmental circles."
My company is a collector of used electronic devices in Hong Kong. Once we received call from a division of the government to collect used printers. To our astonishment, we found a 10 meter sq. room full of used HP 1100 printers stacking to the roof. Turn out it's a result of some idiotic environmentalists attempt to use used papers in printing to "save the environment", which wore out the rubber rollers in the printers pretty quickly. Since the cost to repair is too high (thanks to HP!) they've to discard them.
I have never wanted the "-1 Wrong" moderation point more.
The Laserjet 1100 was a shit printer from start to finish. It was a top loader, which was incredibly prone to jamming by design. (How many top load printers do see today? Any?).
A class action lawsuit was brought against HP because of the issue you described, jamming due to multiple sheets being fed at the same time. A free fix, consisting of an additional separator pad which lasted about as long as the original separator pad, was offered for some time by HP as part of the settlement. Higher volume laser printers use multiple rollers for picking and separating paper, while personal printers use pads that tend to wear out more quickly. The problem with the 1100 was exasperated by the gravity feed inherent to top loading. If you notice HP's desktop laser printer line (The 5L I think started the top load trend, and was followed by the original 1000's & 1100 series) were completely redesigned when the 1200 came along, and that design was redone for the 1320 series. Those use a more traditional pickup feed that allows for large paper trays
That room full of printers were crap to begin with, and had nothing to do with "idiotic environmentalists", they were the result of piss-poor engineering. The 1100 was the bleeding edge of HP's move towards disposable crap printers, and anyone who had to deal with them has Office Space'd at least one.
There are some people that if they don't know, you can't tell 'em.