11 Sep
2007
11 Sep
'07
10:20 a.m.
On 11/09/2007, Rob <robert at irrelevant.com> wrote:
On 11/09/2007, Liam Proven <lproven at
gmail.com> wrote:
Excuse me, I don't think it's at all called for to revert to personal insults.
Boy, you're a po-faced lot around here, aren't you? Do you take
everything this seriously and personally? How do you survive on the
Internet at large?
No offence intented, and my apologies if it was given. I can't promise
not to do it again, though.
(Hmm... back in the 486 days, pre-ATX, some of the really cheap
chinese clone PC cases we used to buy, themselves came with a sheet of
stickers for you to apply to the case to describe the ports.
Individual labels for mouse, serial, monitor, keyboard, printer, scsi,
scanner, etc. All in written out in English !)
Either you're pulling my leg - which looks not to be the case - or
you're really being extraordinarily dense.
Just in case it's option B:
In short clear words:
Printing on paper CHEAP. Printing on case DEAR. Changing case moulding HARD.
If you're seriously proposing shipping cases with /no/ labelling and a
sheet of DIY labels, you're either deranged or very stupid, and either
way, it's not worth trying to reason with you.
If you care to re-read what I wrote, it was that I had
experienced
exactly that. I didn't suggest it. Admitedly they were empty cases
for an OEM market, so individual stickers were the best they could
do, and we rarely used them, but that's what happened.
Compared to the Lexmark example, though, which was exactly what retail
customers got - a printer with a panel of unmarked buttons, and a
plastic bezel printed *in their own language* for them to clip around
them. This was included in the pack with the country specific
manual, power cable etc. It would be easy to add another panel, or a
single, formatted, sticker, etc, for the connectors.
Another example; the Epson RX425, a decidedly mass market printer, I
have upstairs, came with a paper sticker to place alongside the
buttons to explain the symbols with proper words.
As you said yourself "Printing on paper CHEAP". Just do one for the
back as well.
I can honestly say I'm impressed and that you have chosen some good
kit there, then. I've not seen stick-on case labels since the days of
Baby AT motherboards with all the I/O ports on flyleads - which is to
say, they went out in about 1995 or so. (At which point I was a
full-time writer and reviewer on Britain's best-selling PC mag, so I
saw a *lot* of kit.)
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