How not to fill a printer

Here at the office, we use a nice HP color printer. It comes with three trays for paper, labeled 2, 3 and 4. (Now here is a nice Obi Wan error.) The printer complained that tray 4 was empty and my colleague needed a print. So she got a whole box of printing paper and used a pair of scissors to remove the plastic binding. Then she took a pack of paper, opened it, took roughly one-third of the paper and started counting the trays. It is a good thing that they are numbered, because there are only three of them. When she finally put the paper in tray four, the printer started complaining that tray three was empty, so she put in the remaining paper from the pack in that tray. While this way of filling a printer with paper works, it has several drawbacks. To do it more efficient I'll note them here so I can refer my colleagues to them when they are in need of printer paper filling instructions.

1. The plastic binding on the paper pack box has a self-release built in. Just find the part where it is sealed together, turn it upside-down and pull on the little end that is loose. It comes apart quite easily
2. The printer trays and the paper pack sizes match each other. A whole pack will fit into one tray.
3. Filling the first tray with half of a pack and the second with the other half will not make the printer any faster. It will only run out of paper earlier. Just put a whole pack in each tray.

Enough ranting for today ;-)

Zaaf