Good Thing I Checked

[kevin_standlee]

This evening, I set the printer (which is located a fair distance away) to printing 500 copies of the Costume-Con site selection ballot, figuring that should be more than enough to handle anyone who would want to vote this year. A little while later, I went down to the printer room and could hear it continuing to crank out copies. I looked in the output tray and thought it looked like it had printed more than 500 already. I went and checked: I'd typed too many zeroes and the printer was merrily on its way toward printing 5,000 copies of the ballot, or roughly eight times the pre-registered attendance of the convention. I trotted back down to the printer room and killed the print job. Fortunately, I don't think I overprinted too badly.

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[kevin-standlee.livejournal.com]

That's roughly what I was thinking, too, but I usually over-prepare because it's easier to throw away unused ballots than scramble to print more. That ballot box we got is overkill, too, but Westercon and Worldcon thank CC26 for its generosity!