this is a personnel experience, no joke man. I simply cannot understand why are we still living in the stone age? or is it because of my town ( 1/2 an hour journey away from KL ) is too jungle?
so here is the story... it is a bit long winded and boring...
Yesterday (Sunday) i wanted to print some very important documents books i illegally downloaded from the net, and it is so conveniently in pdf format. so i thought i wanted to print it out in double pages, B5 size (The normal A4 size is too big for a book / fitting 4 pages of content into double sided A4 is also not my style)
so i went to the town and look for a photocopy shop. I was so unlucky because most of the shops in this small town is closed on Sunday. the one i usually go is closed too. I thought i was lucky, i saw a busy photocopy shop. then i went in, waited for couple of minutes, nobody seemed to want to entertain me. Finally, the lady boss saw me wandering around... then i ask her
"Do u print B5?"
she said "Yes"
so i was happy. they have this Odd size rather than the usual A4. then I patiently wait for my turn because some students from teknik school is using the computer to print their homework.
Who knows, to my surprise.. when i ask the lady boss about the price (after waiting for another few mOre minutes) she told me that her machine cannot print B5 double page. What on earth... i was so surprised! she have 2 big machines (as big as the printer in the photo shops) and several smaller typical photocopy machines. And yet she is telling me she cannot print double sided B5? To my amazement when i questioned her again, she said
" You need to come back later because those people are using the computer. You can only print single sided B5. I already asked my "Programmer", he said the machine cannot do double sided, unless u do it manually" (as in printing the odd pages first then flip the paper and print the even pages again)
so here is the story... it is a bit long winded and boring...
Yesterday (Sunday) i wanted to print some very important documents books i illegally downloaded from the net, and it is so conveniently in pdf format. so i thought i wanted to print it out in double pages, B5 size (The normal A4 size is too big for a book / fitting 4 pages of content into double sided A4 is also not my style)
so i went to the town and look for a photocopy shop. I was so unlucky because most of the shops in this small town is closed on Sunday. the one i usually go is closed too. I thought i was lucky, i saw a busy photocopy shop. then i went in, waited for couple of minutes, nobody seemed to want to entertain me. Finally, the lady boss saw me wandering around... then i ask her
"Do u print B5?"
she said "Yes"
so i was happy. they have this Odd size rather than the usual A4. then I patiently wait for my turn because some students from teknik school is using the computer to print their homework.
Who knows, to my surprise.. when i ask the lady boss about the price (after waiting for another few mOre minutes) she told me that her machine cannot print B5 double page. What on earth... i was so surprised! she have 2 big machines (as big as the printer in the photo shops) and several smaller typical photocopy machines. And yet she is telling me she cannot print double sided B5? To my amazement when i questioned her again, she said
" You need to come back later because those people are using the computer. You can only print single sided B5. I already asked my "Programmer", he said the machine cannot do double sided, unless u do it manually" (as in printing the odd pages first then flip the paper and print the even pages again)
I was like "what the hell... u want me to kill more trees is it?" some more u are charging me 2o cents per page. and i have like 500++ pages to go and not less than 1 book... can fire the lousy programmer who service you. Doing Double sided printing on A4 is what I ALWAYS do in the office. Just click the button from the computer, and the dumb machine will do all the donkey jobs. And just because i dont have B5 Sized paper NOW so i don't do it in the office.
without second thought i left the place...
then i called my friend. he told me what i wanted to do is "Professional Printing" and i shall seek for "Printing Shops" instead of "Photocopy Shops".
Ok, now i only realised there is a difference between "Printing Shops" and "Photocopy Shops"
So i went to another Printing Shop. and when i ask for B5 printing with the pdf file... that one and only worker sitting in the shop told me that her supervisor is not in. So she gave him/her a call to ask for the price. Then while she was making a call to her supervisor, she said
"tapi, printer hari ini ada problem-la"
( the printer is not functioning well today )
She gave me the felling that she doesn't want to entertain me. So i just left the place since she couldn't get her supervisor... And her service attitude is very disappointing!
I suddenly felt so unbelievable. Why is it so hard to find B5 computer printing? Everyone is doing ONLY A4 A4 A4 and keep pressing the copy button. What about computer printing and let the dumb machine do all the donkey printings. i'm sure that is more relaxing and easier money $$.
Really Shocked! Culture Shocked!
So i couldn't get anything done. The moral of this story is:
"Photocopy Shops" = those who only want to use ManPower to keep pressing the button to copy existing documents for you. Rarely do computer prints. cannot do double sided printing with their big big machines.
"Printing Shops" = those who are professionals who can do "computer printing"
Today i went to a few printing / photocopy shops at Ampang Park. surprisingly they also don't do B5 printing, only A4. and i could not find any place selling B5 size paper either.
Anyway i also went to the usual photocopy shop in my town. The owner told me that computer printing can be done, but it is very hard for him to connect the cables... Another shock...
Quote: "very hard for him to connect cables" really LOL!!
At the end, i bought 1 ream of B5 paper from the uncle, and decided to print it myself in the office. Double Sided, B5.
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then i called my friend. he told me what i wanted to do is "Professional Printing" and i shall seek for "Printing Shops" instead of "Photocopy Shops".
Ok, now i only realised there is a difference between "Printing Shops" and "Photocopy Shops"
So i went to another Printing Shop. and when i ask for B5 printing with the pdf file... that one and only worker sitting in the shop told me that her supervisor is not in. So she gave him/her a call to ask for the price. Then while she was making a call to her supervisor, she said
"tapi, printer hari ini ada problem-la"
( the printer is not functioning well today )
She gave me the felling that she doesn't want to entertain me. So i just left the place since she couldn't get her supervisor... And her service attitude is very disappointing!
I suddenly felt so unbelievable. Why is it so hard to find B5 computer printing? Everyone is doing ONLY A4 A4 A4 and keep pressing the copy button. What about computer printing and let the dumb machine do all the donkey printings. i'm sure that is more relaxing and easier money $$.
Really Shocked! Culture Shocked!
So i couldn't get anything done. The moral of this story is:
"Photocopy Shops" = those who only want to use ManPower to keep pressing the button to copy existing documents for you. Rarely do computer prints. cannot do double sided printing with their big big machines.
"Printing Shops" = those who are professionals who can do "computer printing"
Today i went to a few printing / photocopy shops at Ampang Park. surprisingly they also don't do B5 printing, only A4. and i could not find any place selling B5 size paper either.
Anyway i also went to the usual photocopy shop in my town. The owner told me that computer printing can be done, but it is very hard for him to connect the cables... Another shock...
Quote: "very hard for him to connect cables" really LOL!!
At the end, i bought 1 ream of B5 paper from the uncle, and decided to print it myself in the office. Double Sided, B5.
- end -
2 comments:
haha very funny...
btw, I need to print my thesis soon and I need to find someone with laser printer so that I can get a high quality printout full of charts with colours. Any recommendation? Also reasonable price one?
there is a shop in my town which u can get quality Book Binding for RM20. laser printer i don't know... go and get a cheap one and print yourself ^^
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