For those of you in the construction industry that handle drawings, I am certain that you are more than familiar with the office plotter. Often times you have to print a hundred sheets (36" x 48") or more at one time. That in and of itself is not really a problem, but when you work in a building with several other employees, it can get a little messy.
The upstairs in my office has about 40 Pro-Bel employees, almost all of which need to use the plotter from time to time. Some people print single sheets, while others are printing 'batch prints' (one file containing multiple sheets). Downstairs has the same and they have their own plotter. There is a proper etiquette to handling the plotter in a busy office setting just as there is an etiquette in many other every day things.
If you run the paper out, you change it. Don't suddenly disappear from the office like a manager on a Friday afternoon, delete your print job from the queue so there is no record of your print job, or complain that you only sent five sheets
Check the queue first. Don't assume that nobody in the company can possibly be printing at the same time as you and therefore the job that is currently gathering in the print tray is yours. Check the queue monitor beside the plotter first and make sure it is yours before rifling through the drawings like a rabid hyena. If you don't have a queue monitor, gently check the title block on the drawings.
Don't leave a mess. If you are done with the plotter area, take your sheets with you, toss whatever you don't need, and make sure any paper in the print tray is lined up properly so the next person doesn't cause a jam.
Man I need to get an office with a view of something other than the plotter and Mark Gruering.
Michael Gray
Pro-Bel Enterprises Limited
Marketing and Sales Support
Ontario and Eastern Canada
e: mikegray@pro-bel.ca
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