[Shop-talk] MIG welder term

[Randall]

> I get a chuckle from a compute printers' duty-cycle
> specs that say something like "5000 pages per month". 
> does that mean if you have printed 5000 pages, and
> it's only the 25th of the month, you need to turn off
> the printer until the end of the month so it can rest?

No, it means that is the level of usage the printer is designed for.  It's a
way of putting a number on "light duty" vs "heavy duty".

Printing 10,000 pages per month won't burn it up, it will just wear out
sooner than expected (and possibly invalidate the warranty).

Randall - who used to be responsible for printers that printed over 20,000
pages/month

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