Airbus Lounge Printer

derg said:
From the left seat, piece of cake. From the right seat, it was an embarrassing Gordian Knot of confusion.
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At Yellow, you were not to be signed off on OE unless and until you'd successfully reloaded the printer from the FO seat.
 
The CKA wouldn’t sign me off until I could do it in under a minute. Alright two…. Well, he was kidding but it ain’t hard. Finesse, not mongo smash, just like most fifi things.
 
I recently had to jumpseat on the 737 and was amazed that it spits out 8x11 sheets of paper and that there's a VERY specific way to tear it off without ripping the information to shreds.
 
Max Power said:
I recently had to jumpseat on the 737 and was amazed that it spits out 8x11 sheets of paper and that there's a VERY specific way to tear it off without ripping the information to shreds.
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All of our printers at Purple are that way. It's different, thicker kind of paper than I've ever seen. I could never "tear" the paper from the right seat of the MD without ripping it, due to the weird angle the printer was installed at (exit facing the Captain). I always had to slew it to the perforation and tear it there. The 767 printer sits like the one in the 737 and I can get a good angle without having to slew it - which is good, since tech-cedure states that we print way more stuff on this fleet than we did in the MD.
 
Max Power said:
I recently had to jumpseat on the 737 and was amazed that it spits out 8x11 sheets of paper and that there's a VERY specific way to tear it off without ripping the information to shreds.
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What company was that? At the Eskimo hula girl Guppy place we have a four inch wide kinda strip of paper that prints forward
 
Skåning said:
What company was that? At the Eskimo hula girl Guppy place we have a four inch wide kinda strip of paper that prints forward
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The One with the Eagle that can't decide if it wants to be a legacy or LCC. It printed down and back (toward the jumpseat) which is why I was delegated the task of tearing off the paper. I told them I was an Airbus guy when I asked for the ride, I didn't mention our printer was far superior because I didn't know there was a photocopier buried in the 737 console. It still printed off a roll, but man, if you could have seen the look on my face, trying to contain my laughter when I saw it.
 
I don’t even know. I think I might have seen the printer used once in the 350
 
derg said:
I don’t even know. I think I might have seen the printer used once in the 350
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It goes back and forth depending on the left seater here at AA in the Bus fleet. Some folks print everything (some still print full paper releases on dot matrix:oops:) some print the ATIS and most just use the iPad unless the Wifi de Fifi is down.
 
Max Power said:
The One with the Eagle that can't decide if it wants to be a legacy or LCC. It printed down and back (toward the jumpseat) which is why I was delegated the task of tearing off the paper. I told them I was an Airbus guy when I asked for the ride, I didn't mention our printer was far superior because I didn't know there was a photocopier buried in the 737 console. It still printed off a roll, but man, if you could have seen the look on my face, trying to contain my laughter when I saw it.
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Still only prints on half the page!

Between the 737, the MD and the 767, I've gotten really good and ACARS-gami: the ancient art of folding printer messages.
 
I got on a plane to a mechanic there about to defer the printer after the last crew wrote it up. I opened it up to see the paper was installed wrong.
 
JordanD said:
I got on a plane to a mechanic there about to defer the printer after the last crew wrote it up. I opened it up to see the paper was installed wrong.
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I got on a plane with the printer power light written up. There was no power light installed on that model. Trying to explain that to the mechanics in Incheon was fun.
 
CoffeeIcePapers said:
Had a guy print every atis on the hour on a transcon. He didn’t even do auto updates, he manually did it.
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Try watching a captain do that on a pacific crossing (for the destination, alternate, and etops alternates) and then telling the 2 FOs to keep hourly copies for him to review when he came back from break.
 
BobDDuck said:
Try watching a captain do that on a pacific crossing (for the destination, alternate, and etops alternates) and then telling the 2 FOs to keep hourly copies for him to review when he came back from break.
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