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A piece of paper on an old printer (a laserjet 4050 to be specific. It says: "Hello, My name is LaserJet 4050 and I was made in 1999. I’ve been doing my job printing your documents for many many years, however I think the motor that powers my paper feeder is bad. This makes me sad because I’m not able to do my job very reliably. As such, I am formally presenting this document as a letter of resignation. IT is working on finding a replacement for me, but for the time being, I apologize if I tell you I have a paper jam. Please allow me to refer you to my coworker, LaserJet 3390. 3390 resides outside of Ray’s office and can be reached at: <some redacted text> Please accept my sincerest apologies for failing. Thank you for replacing my toner and restocking my paper tray. It’s been a wonderful 14 years of working together. Much love, LaserJet 4050
Back when every HP printer worked on the LaserJet 4P driver that was less than 1MB.
My good, old LaserJet p2015n has been up and running for I really can’t remember how long. I might even have been longer than it’s predecessor, an HP InkJet 500. OTOH the ij500 was already old when I got it and it didn’t really break. We just put our last PC that had a parallel port out of service.
Wholesome IT department