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It's 106 miles to Chicago. We've got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it's dark and we're wearing sunglasses.
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The IPOD NANO comes with info that among other things tells the owner not to eat the IPOD NANO. I wonder how many were consumed before they printed it.The greatest enemy of knowledge isn't ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge. Stephen HawkingComment
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Being in the manual business I can attest to the poor spelling and grammer in thousands of manuals. I'm tempted to write to these companies and offer my services to correct these errors. It's just incomprehensible that these multinational companies don't have someone on staff that has a thorough background in the English language to run through the manuals before they are released. As someone who's name is all over the web, I strive to make sure anything I send out is spelled 100% correctly and with proper grammar.
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Sharp cougar range
had a problem with a laser unit , so tested it with sim code. Message comes up NG?
WTF does that mean. Phones my supervisor at the time and the reply was
"NG means - no good"
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O.K. This has got to top them all. Maybe Paul @ manuals for u can back me up if he has a copy. A tech in the shop working on a cash register ask me if I had seen the porn in the service manual.?????? She then showed me a Janko service manual for Sharp cash registers, 3rd or 4th edition, and turned to a page that showed a bunch of black blotches on a page and on the bottom it said something like " In memory of John Smith". Turn the page and on the back of the page were more blotches in the spots that were blank on the first page. When you hold it up to light, all of the blotches come together to make a silhouette of a 4 way sex scene. Swear to god it was printed in the manual. I wonder if someone got fired?The greatest enemy of knowledge isn't ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge. Stephen HawkingComment
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Some manual sites (not mine) like to put a background image into a .pdf file as a watermark. None of my manuals have this and if I get a file with this watermark, I try to remove it and if I can't then I don't put it up on my sites.Comment
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I get frustrated when we have a problem with a particular product and I am given the official two page JAPLISH 'remedy'. The information can often be condensed to a short paragraph of English.
A 'favourite' manual of mine is the Canon additional tray for the S1 finisher. It tells you to remove a pin from the shaft. If this is done the gear no longer turns the shaft and the finisher gives an error. From the same manual 'remove the static eliminator, be careful not to touch the static eliminator' well how could I remove it without touching it, but its there for a reason and shouldnt be taken off in the first place!
A set of Toshiba estudio2500 drums contained the following,
Be carefull not to damage scratch or spit on the drum surface.Comment
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Now I know why the copier is sometimes slow.....
(Schematics Minolta Di-350)
:mutley
Hans“Sent from my Intel 80286 using MS-DOS 2.0”
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Funny Hans!
You would think they could manage to spell the same word correctly twice in the same image. =^..^=If you'd like a serious answer to your request:
1) demonstrate that you've read the manual
2) demonstrate that you made some attempt to fix it.
3) if you're going to ask about jams include the jam code.
4) if you're going to ask about an error code include the error code.
5) You are the person onsite. Only you can make observations.
blackcat: Master Of The Obvious =^..^=Comment
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