Get that Copier out of the Living Room

Three or four years ago, our company was going to throw out some used trade-in copiers.  I looked and grabbed one as did a couple of other techs.  I had our driver guy help me load it in the company truck and immediately took it home.  Charlene wasn't home at the time so we just left it in the living room and returned to work.  When I got home, there was no excitement, no joy in mudville.  Instead, it was, "You're not putting a copier in our living room."  Sigh......  I explained it was a 20 page a minute copier, network printer and a super fast fax.  No dice.  "Put it in the garage".  "Honey, I can't, it will get ruined out there".  So, a compromise was reached.  I took off the auto document feeder and replaced it with a flat platen cover (lid).  Then I took it off the stand and put it on the floor sitting on a piece of plywood.  Now, it was pretty much hidden from view sitting on the floor behind the couch.  Especially with a cover thrown on top (one of the cat's favorite sleeping places).

    It was little used at first but it replaced our small laser printer on my desk.  Then, Charlene decided to become a RN.  Gotta get the Associate's Degree first, then 2 years of intense (put mildly) Nursing College.  All of a sudden, the volume started picking up.  An occasional fax, mainly copies and computer prints.  Now, years later, SHE goes through between 2 and 4 reams of paper a month.  2000 sheets!
Not a day goes by (7 days a week) that she's either printing or copying stuff.  We joke about it often but she's glad it's here. 

Here she is, last week, copying articles from AJN (American Journel of Nursing) for class and study material. 
Dealing with I.T. guys in the network part of my job, I run across used equipment they're trying to get rid of so I've picked up an HP 4050 laser printer and stuck it in Nic and Trav's room.  Both are 'networked' so anyone can print to them.  When Charlene has problems with paper jams she can't clear, she'll turn it off and wait 'till I get home and just switch her print jobs to the HP.  God, I love Technology, especially when it's free.