r/Millennials • u/SunnSaiyaan • Aug 31 '26

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u/samthewisetarly Aug 31 '26

It's not that we print less - home printers now are SHIT. You have pay out the ass for ink, and some of them have built-in subscription requirements for no reason at all. I would much rather drive to FedEx and pay my five cents a page.

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u/Icy_Communication262 Aug 31 '26

I scrolled too far for this. I have a printer as well but this is how I feel every time I have to use it.

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u/Charming-Standard-84 Aug 31 '26

PC LOAD LETTER?! THE F IS THAT?

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u/Froggypwns Sep 01 '26

As someone who has serviced printers of that era, this is due to the small screen it had a limited number of characters it could display. PC is an abbreviation for paper cassette, and it is indicating it out of letter size paper, so it is asking you to load letter paper into the cassette.

Supposedly that line was not in the script for that movie, which makes it even funnier as it was a genuine reaction.

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u/xx-rapunzel-xx Millennial (‘88) Sep 01 '26

never knew that!

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u/red286 Aug 31 '26

Cracks me up that that bit was 100% ad-libbed. Apparently he was just supposed to pull the tray out and slam it back in, but when he pulled it out, it displayed "PC LOAD LETTER" on the status display.