Have you ever done anticipatory work and then forgotten about it?
It’s so awesome, it’s like finding money on the ground.
We got a new network laser printer at work. Normally with a network printer you install a driver share it and you are done.
However I’m in a special case with this particular printer. Our sales/accounting department uses different colored paper for different purposes on various types of sales orders, or different copies.
Normally not a big issue, most software will just let you save printer settings and let you choose the proper color when you send the printjob.
We’ve got a particular piece of custom software however that will have none of that. It sends crap right to the printer and your driver has to be set to use the color of paper you want, no choices can be made at time of print.
The workaround is to set up as many printer drivers for that printer as you have different colors.
The new printer came and it had 2 default paper trays with the option of adding more, but the optional paper trays were on back order. We had decided to add 3 extra paper trays.
Apparently anticipating the delivery of the new paper trays within the next week or 2 I figured I might as well install the needed drivers last week and just share them as the trays came in. I remember doing it now, but when I went to start the driver installs today I hadn’t.
So, the hour of work I did last week setting up the extra drivers and setting the default print settings is an hour of work I don’t have to do today. Wohoo!
