43 responses so far ↓

• 1 Starr // Mar 17, 2008 at 7:44 pm

  I wonder how much money those pretty blue post-its cost.

• 2 Anton // Mar 17, 2008 at 7:58 pm

  Wow, over $2 to print a color page, what kind of printer are they using?

  Our color laser at work costs less than 4 cents per page. Predominately B&W pages will cost much less than that.

• 3 chronicss // Mar 17, 2008 at 10:03 pm

  Hear that whooshing sound Anton? Thats the joke going over your head.

  The person claimed it cost $1 to print color pages (a rather dubious claim). It now costs $2 because the rude person who wrote all over the first printout, prompting a second printing.

• 4 Gary // Mar 17, 2008 at 10:13 pm

  Technically black and white are also colors.

• 5 Paul // Mar 17, 2008 at 10:57 pm

  Wow looks like every commenting system on the internet!

• 6 Uhhh // Mar 17, 2008 at 11:39 pm

  “Technically black and white are also colors.”

  Actually that’s incorrect. White is all colours, black is the absence of any colour.

• 7 Ben // Mar 18, 2008 at 1:07 am

  I wouldn’t want to work any place where they spell ‘color’ with a ‘u’ either.

• 8 gerry // Mar 18, 2008 at 1:13 am

  A great sign I once saw on a wall covered in bossy notices simply said ‘every sign is a failure of management.’

  And I thought *white was defined as the abscence of colour.

  *in primary school, aged seven.

• 9 Nick // Mar 18, 2008 at 1:15 am

  Gary, ftw?

• 10 babba // Mar 18, 2008 at 1:23 am

  @chronicss
  It’s $2 because there are 2 pages in the print out.

• 11 Agata // Mar 18, 2008 at 1:45 am

  No, they’re not.

• 12 George D // Mar 18, 2008 at 1:50 am

  “Technically black and white are also colors.”

  Printers don’t print white, smartypants.

• 13 Who? // Mar 18, 2008 at 2:46 am

  Time is money, so who knows how many dollars in wages was spent on that exercise…

• 14 Ben // Mar 18, 2008 at 6:14 am

  I wouldn’t want to work any place where they spell ‘color’ without a ‘u’ either.

• 15 Ben // Mar 18, 2008 at 6:46 am

  Australian dollars too - they’re actually worth something

• 16 Dave L // Mar 18, 2008 at 6:51 am

  No… it’s $2 because the person who wrote the highlighter comment was using colour also. It’s a joke that the person writing the first note below used a colour highlighter to write it. The dumb thing is that if people value their time, this cost way more then $2… plus all of our wasted time reading it.

• 17 Alex // Mar 18, 2008 at 7:06 am

  @Ben
  That’s OK, the rest of the English speaking world can probably survive without your company. Get with the programme!

• 18 anon // Mar 18, 2008 at 7:14 am

  “I wouldn’t want to work any place where they spell ‘color’ with a ‘u’ either.”

  why Gary, is spelling English words correctly too much for you to cope with while flipping burgers?

• 19 Craig // Mar 18, 2008 at 7:38 am

  Actually, white isn’t the absence of colour (yes, that is the correct, original British spelling of colour), it’s the reflection of all visible bandwidths of colour.

  Black would be complete absorbtion (no colour).

  Technically, you can print white, but most printers don’t.

• 20 James // Mar 18, 2008 at 8:05 am

  I have to agree with the “do you have to print in color”? I work in an office with some idiots and they don’t even think about what they do and how it impacts others. Out high end laser printer has a red, green, blue and I think black cartridge in it and each cost $300. It also has a developer and something else, each $200. Half the crap people print out is BS.

  As far as “positive communication”, we have turned into a bunch of whiney pussies. Whenener someone has something “negative” to say, they have to “consider people’s feelings”. What happened to the day of calling out people for being stupid?

• 21 Mike B // Mar 18, 2008 at 8:18 am

  It depends whether you’re talking about mixing light versus mixing pigment.

  White is all light combined, black is no light.

  White is no pigment, black is all pigments.

• 22 Matt // Mar 18, 2008 at 8:36 am

  Dear Mr. “Uhhh”

  The greys in a black in white printing will use up the colored ink. With light white is composed up of the colors, with print black is composed of the colors. Gary was obviously referring to printed material as implied by the article referring to something printed out at the office. Please don’t argue with people who are correct.

• 23 blunckhouse // Mar 18, 2008 at 8:58 am

  “Printers don’t print white, smartypants.”

  My printer does. I fill it with clear pieces of paper and it takes care of the rest.

• 24 dumb shit // Mar 18, 2008 at 9:02 am

  uhhh… well, that’s only for light. for ink, it’s different (and yes, I realize that the reflection of light off of the ink is the creation of our perception of color, but clearly that isn’t the application here)

• 25 b- // Mar 18, 2008 at 9:06 am

  Colour is the British / Australian spelling. presumably an Australian office.

• 26 Addrox // Mar 18, 2008 at 9:15 am

  That page can not cost 2$. It only has one little pic in colors. I think people in that office are having way too much coffee or too little sex or both.

  Rergarding B&W being colors:

  Black and white are no colors. They are called (next to the greys, achromatic “colors” - which sounds ridiculous cuz it would mean colors with no color, but thats the way it is)

  In the RGB system (like TVs and screens) white is the sum of all colors. Black is the lack of any. That’s when color is formed by light. That’s why you can split a white light into a rainbow with every color (just like in Pink Floyds cover) with a prism.

  In the CMYK system (printers) Black is one of the four ink cartridges (that’s what the “K” stands for), and even when black isn’t a color it contributes with the coloring, like, darkening another color or whatever. In this case, the paper is already white and there’s not white ink.

  PS: Are Post-its way cheaper than prints?

• 27 Juds // Mar 18, 2008 at 9:35 am

  @Ben:
  “Colour” is how it’s spelled in Canada and Britain, and perhaps other places.

• 28 Ali // Mar 18, 2008 at 10:48 am

  “I wouldn’t want to work any place where they spell ‘color’ with a ‘u’ either.”

  Only American english does not use a ‘u’ in the word colour. Every other english speaking country does. Stop being such a uncultured twit.

• 29 asd // Mar 18, 2008 at 10:57 am

  Seriously, It was probably accidental.
  Many print drivers default to color.

• 30 Nathan // Mar 18, 2008 at 11:01 am

  Oh interoffice politics, how I miss you so…

• 31 WhoCares // Mar 18, 2008 at 1:04 pm

  Who cares????
  Most people go to work and just want to go home and spend time with their family and those important to them.
  Only those teacher pets (complete losers) take their job so “seriously” to tattle on their colleagues about colour printing and nonsense like that.
  Who cares its not your money anyways its your worthless boss who also does-not-care about 4 cents or 1 dollar or 2 dollars for a colour printout.

• 32 Robert // Mar 21, 2008 at 11:25 am

  We all work in one giant office like this. It’s called the internet, and it’s full of jerks who snipe at each other over the slightest perceived wrongdoing.

• 33 Stucco // Mar 24, 2008 at 11:23 am

  With the value of the Dollar dropping as rapidly as it has, this spurious claim may yet be made true. Although, I’m really only considering the U.S. Dollar- the Canadian and Australian Dollars are probably different.

• 34 Steve // Mar 26, 2008 at 8:43 pm

  my 2 cents: it could be $2 because the posted printout says “1 of 2″ in the top corner. I agree the claim is outrageous, but there is humor in it if you look for it.

• 35 Cody // Apr 1, 2008 at 9:49 pm

  I find it depressing that some of the comments here involving petty bickering over the spelling of “color”.

• 36 anon // Apr 11, 2008 at 10:23 pm

  yeah, the joke is that no one would want to work in an office with so many damn passive aggressive coworkers

• 37 Dan // Apr 13, 2008 at 2:36 am

  I actually can’t believe there have been 36 comments discussing colour printing.

  And as for petty bickering over the word “color”. Its spelt with a “u” in the UK and other English speaking countries as has already been said. Shows that many Americans actually dont have any clue of cultures other than that of their own country.

• 38 boring // Apr 14, 2008 at 10:07 am

  Colour is the new spelling of the word. It was originally spelt ‘color’, we british changed the spelling of the word - not sure why!

• 39 Not thick // Apr 15, 2008 at 3:06 pm

  With a few exceptions, you all seem like a bunch of thick bastards. If you can’t handle punctuation and grammar, please don’t post comments anywhere on the Internet. I hate you.

• 40 TheGabe // Apr 23, 2008 at 2:46 pm

  Everyone shut up. You’re taking this far too seriously.
  Except “Not Thick”.
  You keep on commenting. Seriously, it’s better than the original post.

• 41 cloud9ine // Apr 24, 2008 at 11:22 pm

  I agree with the person who asked, do you have to print this in color. Consider a company with 66000 employees who print a color page a day when a black and white or even toner saving draft mode would suffice.

  I make it a point to print any docs for my own reading use (and not present to someone else) in toner save, black and white, and duplex (back-to-back).

  By the way, toner might be cheap, you are also depreciating the equipment.

  For the guy who said, “Who cares, It’s not your money anyway”, I have news for you. It is your money. Money that could have gone to you or any of your coworkers. It could also have been the money that could keep your company in the black in this age of billion dollar writedowns, and save your job from the next layoff.

• 42 blastedt // Apr 25, 2008 at 5:25 pm

  He thought colour was misspelled because he’s American. I’m American, and personally use both, and can actually never tell whether energise is England’s spelling, or if energize is.

• 43 Laura // Apr 29, 2008 at 3:41 am

  Hm, I’m sure Ben was being sarcastic. I chuckled. Obviously he knew that “colour” is how it is spelled elsewhere. If not his loss, but I have a sense of humor.

  Calm down, quit getting so uptight about a “u”. Is it really all that serious you have to go on an all out American Hate-Rant?

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