{"id":694,"date":"2011-10-25T22:05:32","date_gmt":"2011-10-26T03:05:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/gazette\/2011\/10\/25\/111025-plotter\/"},"modified":"2022-03-08T21:40:02","modified_gmt":"2022-03-09T03:40:02","slug":"111025-plotter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2011\/10\/25\/111025-plotter\/","title":{"rendered":"Installing a BHP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Big Honkin&#8217; Plotter, that is. Or, to be less dramatic and more boring, an <a href=\"http:\/\/h10010.www1.hp.com\/wwpc\/us\/en\/sm\/WF06a\/18972-18972-3328061-12600-3328078-5053942.html\">HP T-1300 Designjet large format plotter<\/a>. Yep, that&#8217;s what I [almost] singlehandedly assembled and put into operation at the office yesterday, in fulfillment of my loosely-defined IT responsibilities.<\/p>\n<p>It was actually ridiculously easy, despite having 94 discrete steps in the instruction manual from unboxing-to-printing. Some of those steps were along the lines of &#8220;remove dessication packet,&#8221; or &#8220;open printer cover.&#8221; I didn&#8217;t mind; it was a welcome change from too many do-it-yourself projects where the instructions were badly translated from Serbian, or simplified into one &#8220;assemble the unit and enjoy!&#8221; instruction, which is OK if it&#8217;s referring to, say, a shovel, but not so good for a propane barbecue grill.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, while I did most of the assemblage by my lonesome, I did enlist some strong backs to help lift the almost-200-pound device to its feet, thereby avoiding any embarrassing job-related injuries. And to top it off, the darned thing actually worked after I got it connected to the network.<\/p>\n<p>Still, it&#8217;s one big piece of machinery. How big, you ask? You be the judge.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/images\/misc\/carriervsplotter.jpg\" alt=\"Aircraft Carrier vs Plotter\" vspace=\"3\"><br \/>\n<span class=\"smaller\"><em>Items not drawn exactly to scale<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Big Honkin&#8217; Plotter, that is. Or, to be less dramatic and more boring, an HP T-1300 Designjet large format plotter. Yep, that&#8217;s what I [almost] singlehandedly assembled and put into operation at the office yesterday, in fulfillment of my loosely-defined IT responsibilities. It was actually ridiculously easy, despite having 94 discrete steps in the instruction&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2011\/10\/25\/111025-plotter\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Installing a BHP<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,8,18,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corporate-dronehood","category-just-plain-silly","category-technology","category-tools-diy","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=694"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8348,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694\/revisions\/8348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}