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I'm surprised that Xerox pays engineers to do all this, when so many companies would pay their lawyers to make it someone else's problem when an odd type of pap
by thisrod 9y ago
I'm surprised that Xerox pays engineers to do all this, when so many companies would pay their lawyers to make it someone else's problem when an odd type of paper stock jammed in tropical weather. Making custom parts and flying out to fit them in production machines? I thought technicians only got to do that during wars. I suppose you might do it when the machine is the one that prints the price labels for Walmart, though.
- ocdtrekkie 9y agoI worked a couple years ago somewhere with iGen printers. Xerox guys were there all the time, absolutely top class service all the way when you're at this level of printing.
- Avshalom 9y agoI don't know about Walmart but here at Target we just use some random small business Epsons for the signing and Zebras (previously Monarchs) for the price strips and stickers
- ComputerGuru 9y agoZebras are indestructible. It’s what Amazon uses in their warehouses for everything. I was looking for a label printer and my options were a new dymo label printer from 2015 or a zebra released 15 years prior. The zebra still won.
- skrebbel 9y agoThey're also a lot of fun to code against, if you're like me and have a thing for ancient serial cable text protocols designed by electrical engineers.
- ComputerGuru 9y agoI haven’t coded against the Zebras but I have against their counterparts from Epson with ESC/POC and fully concur. It’s like a throwback to the 80s or early 90s.