Why can’t things work the first time?

/ hsoi

Bought a Samsung Blu-Ray player. The HDMI port didn’t fully work (no video signal). Had to return it and so far the second one seems OK.

I’m presently hooking up the new printer (Epson Workforce 63o). First document I print it printed at 50% size and I can’t figure out why. Tried to photocopy and it came out horrible. Running a printer head cleaning, print head realignment, but why should a brand new device need that??

Does anyone understand the notion of “quality” any more?

*sigh*

8 thoughts on “Why can’t things work the first time?”

  1. “low” is a quality, isn’t it?
    There’s no money in building stuff that lasts and works right. Limited options for follow on sales or repair revenue that way.

    • Unfortunately yes, low is a quality. It reminds of a KLBJ-FM bumper: “We put the ‘K’ back in kwality”.

      But I know this is how it goes, because it’s all about “upgrade revenue”. If you build something that lasts, you won’t have a lasting revenue stream. Plus, people want cheap products now, so build it cheap enough to make it last just long enough. It’s also a mentality shift, because I know many people these days are more than happy to keep upgrading, to use and toss away, etc… no one wants to buy something solid that lasts. *sigh*

  2. I assume you checked the printer settings (check your software settings for image size too, if you didn’t), but I’ll warn you, if that “all in one” is anything like the one my in-laws have, there’s seriously 5 different places where image size, paper size, borders, quality, etc can all be adjusted……

    • Yup. I checked all the logical places.

      The thing is, the printer is hooked via USB to a computer, which then shares the printer over my internal network to the whole house. I tried printing directly from that computer and it worked. When I was printing from another computer (via the printer sharing), that’s how I got the odd reduced size.

      One interesting thing is the icon for the printer on the physically-attached machine looks like the actual printer. But the one on my remote machine looks like a totally different printer. However, both appear to be the same driver version.

      So I’m not sure. I had to run out and do a bunch of things so I haven’t been able to play around more and see what’s up.

      What a pain….

      I write software for a living. I know things don’t have to suck this much… but I also know that usually they do because the bean counters are typically the ones in charge and they only care about what will sell for the least cost. They don’t care about writing good and useful and usable software. *sigh*

      • double check the printer and software settings on the remote computer (assuming you didn’t, which you probly did) and make sure they’re identical to the main computer. Its probly something stupid little that got changed and now you can’t find it. (thats what it usualy is for me.)

  4. That is what I am say all the time now….that I own a food trailer….I just expect something to break down (new or old) bi-weekly:(

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