Comment by rswail

Comment by rswail 14 hours ago

8 replies

The problem is that the rest of the world is not aware of US sizes.

Thus HP printers continually displaying "PC LOAD LETTER" on printers outside the US dealing with documents generated by people in the US.

BalinKing 14 hours ago

I never realized that “LETTER” in that error referred to paper size—no printer I’ve had has actually given that error, so I only ever heard about it through oblique references to Office Space and such. It makes so much more sense now…

  • Suppafly 13 hours ago

    The 'PC' part is paper cassette, it's the printer literally telling you to load letter sized paper into the paper cassette, but everyone acts like it's some mysterious message that's impossible to figure out.

    • nullhole 12 hours ago

      Well, PC also means Personal Computer, and letter also means element of alphabet, so it's not like there isn't room for confusion

    • immibis 10 hours ago

      Sounds impossible if you didn't read the manual. Who reads manuals?

loloquwowndueo 14 hours ago

On don’t worry, they also show PC LOAD LETTER in the US even when the correct paper size is loaded :)

  • Suppafly 13 hours ago

    >On don’t worry, they also show PC LOAD LETTER in the US even when the correct paper size is loaded :)

    Only if there is an issue with the rollers or something and it can't feed the paper from the paper cassette. No one ever wants to read the manuals or do basic troubleshooting though. Hell newer ones have a menu on them that will walk you through each of the troubleshooting steps, but people would rather put a post-it on it saying it's broken.

toast0 12 hours ago

Could be PC LOAD LEGAL if your document is really weird.