What if printers actually printed

The idea behind printwise is a good one. You swipe you ID and your print jobs are transferred electronically to that given printer. The problem comes when the actual printing process happens, or in most cases, does not happen. Whether its out of paper, or just doesn't feel like printing on that particular day, the odds of actually getting you paper printed is 50:50 on most days.

Let's start out by talking about the out of paper issue. We are all college student. So, you would think that we would know how to fill the paper in the paper drawer of a printer. However, the great minds at our university have decided that, while we can be expected to write term papers and complete massive midterm projects, filling the paper in the printer is one task that we cannot be trusted with. So instead, the paper drawer is locked behind a super annoying door making it impossible to be opened without a super special key. So, instead of solving our own problems, students are stuck without a paper to turn in. I think we all can agree that there is nothing worse then seeing that paper low icon on the printer. But what choice do we have? We just have to swipe and hope there is enough paper to print what we desperately need for class that day.

That beings me to my next point, deleting. My personal favorite printer issue is when that evil machine just simply deletes your print jobs for no apparent reason. There is nothing like walking three blocks to the printer, only to find out that nothing was transferred to your card and you now have to sprint back to get your computer before class starts. My questions is simple. Why!? I just don't understand why this happens and why is continues to happen. These printers are supposed to be providing a convenient service for us. Instead, it feel more like they are sabotaging us.