Rush. Not Journey. Rush...
Feb. 4th, 2005 12:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
murakoziLate last year, we needed over 260 cd's inkjetted and burned to be sent out to people. For whatever reason, making CD's of any kind ended up being my job long ago. It's not hard to make the things. It's just a slow process. There's a CD color printer I borrow from another group. It's a few years old and a slow thing. Plop in a CD with a printable surface and it slooowwwwly chugs along, inkjetting the label on. Then I have to burn 'em all with the CD-RW drive in my workstation. We'd looked into getting one of the newer machines a while back. The kind that take a stack of blanks and prints then burns them. The cost just couldn't be justified for the low level of use it'd get.
So doing all those CD's took 5 days for me to do. Like I said, this printer is slow. It's over 2 minutes to print each CD, plus some time for it to 'rest' now and then because it starts getting warm, or time spent cleaning it when a CD slips in there and it gets ink all over the tray or the cartridge needs replacing and I have to recalibrate the thing. It's really mind numbing stuff, because I can't do much of anything else on the workstation when printing or burning.
At 11 this morning, the AA comes in. The VP wants 100 CD's printed and burned and sent overnight to him. Okay. When's he need them. He needs them sent out today.
Today?
I cant' seem to get them to comprehend that 260 = 5 days so 100 is gonna be somewhere around 2 days. I'm just supposed to rush it through, somehow. Joy.
So doing all those CD's took 5 days for me to do. Like I said, this printer is slow. It's over 2 minutes to print each CD, plus some time for it to 'rest' now and then because it starts getting warm, or time spent cleaning it when a CD slips in there and it gets ink all over the tray or the cartridge needs replacing and I have to recalibrate the thing. It's really mind numbing stuff, because I can't do much of anything else on the workstation when printing or burning.
At 11 this morning, the AA comes in. The VP wants 100 CD's printed and burned and sent overnight to him. Okay. When's he need them. He needs them sent out today.
Today?
I cant' seem to get them to comprehend that 260 = 5 days so 100 is gonna be somewhere around 2 days. I'm just supposed to rush it through, somehow. Joy.