Adventures with Printers

Yes, office equipment can be an adventure too! Especially when God gets involved.

For the last couple years, the printer in my office has been disabled by an annoying error message that would not go away no matter what I did. This morning I really needed a printer. I had forgotten on Friday to print off quizzes for today's eight o'clock class. And the department printer is usually not available until a little while after 8:00. My first idea was to try to access from home the online practice quiz to get questions from, and then print at home. But we've been having firewall issues lately that kept me from being able to access the web page . . .

So, when I got to the office, I was desperate enough to be pondering the possibility of completely disassembling my printer and putting it back together, or something like that. Instead, I was shocked to find that the error light on the printer was not lit up!!!! After confirming that it had paper and navigating around on the menu, I got up the courage to print the demo page. AND IT WORKED! When I tried to print the quiz though, it aborted. It didn't take too long to notice that I no longer had the USB cable connected to the printer. Once I managed to get it back in, my printer was once again fully functional. And I still had a few minutes left before class. Wow! Talk about an 'on-time' God!!!