Engin Printing Room Mess
No mood to blog, so upload an entry drafted last week…
Contrary to what destroyed the engin bridge, I found an interesting ‘graffiti’ in engin’s print room.
No lah… The only thing arty about this is that it reflects the kind of culture and acceptance of style in engin/sg. But I took the pix cos I find it stupid that I have to look out for so many things when I print, let’s say, 5 pages of stuff.
Actually, from the point of an engineer, or a systems designer/monitor, I would declare the printing room in a state of failure with so many faults arising. The costs of repairing (when students didn’t know of the ‘rules’ and flout them) the machines may be even higher than when I send the machines for an overhaul, and re-install the whole software system.
For the pic above, printing a PDF/PPT file less than 2MB is impossible. We didn’t create the files, the lecturers did. And PDF/PPT are two of the most ‘popular’ formats in school, apart from WORD. Then below that notice, we were told not to send any file that is more than 2MB. oh man! I don’t understand the ‘3-digit’ file size, though I suppose the software should recognize files with ‘0′ size as an anomaly and disregard it. And note too, the said pin to remove stuck cashcard is not there. I had to hammer that stupid machine to get my card out!
And anyways, there were more notices, like announcing that there is a software bug where the the system charges more than printed. Like when I print 4 pages of stuff, using 2pg-on-1 format, I will still be charged for 4 pages despite printing only 2 pages effectively. This, I also call inability of the software engineers.
The above pic does not show how giam siap the auntie is, stealing the GEMS promo-card to ‘thank’ the students. It’s just that the card was supposed to be used by customers on service staff! Why should I be thanked to top-up my card? What’s the service I provided to the top-up machine? Slotting the cards in and out??
And the notice under it is also funny. It looked like someone heeded the advice and peeled at the paper (that very notice) from the side. JK…
The whole printing room was a big error. Blasphemy. The only reason why the ugly print-outs, broken/unorthodox English was tolerated was possibly cos of the type of people who visit the room, you know, those whose population in engin is the highest.
Yet amidst this chaos, there developed a kind of ‘art’, something like how graffiti has evolved into…
p/s: I quite du lan with the printing room (and comp centre, cos they are managed by the same vendor), cos of the mis-charging problem. I tried to print a 3-page doc and the system charged me for 18 pages. Kept re-sending the files and yet it was the same. I ended up having to print from CL. diaoz!
