at an office there are some people who repeatedly print a document, then make a very few slight typo changes, while others do more comprehensive editing before printing. It is possible that a less intensive print-fix-print cycle could save money and be environmentally beneficial.

Thus software notices which users ip addresses are print-fix-print-fix intensive, then activates a tutorial at their computer's word processing utility that pleasantly teaches better editing.

This is dull, yet saves paper, and possibly reduces the rushed feeling of irritation from the print-fix cycle.
-- beanangel, Oct 26 2016

//a tutorial at their computer's word processing utility that pleasantly teaches better editing.//

It's that katd of thatg that leads to monitors havatg fist-shaped holes at them.
-- MaxwellBuchanan, Oct 26 2016


"You have just fixed 2 of 10 possible spelling errors. Would you like to see the other 8?"
-- caspian, Oct 26 2016


// comprehensive edicting //

So this is for the Vatican, right ?

// activates a tutorial //

Ideally, said tutorial being administered by a couple of burly blokes equipped with a selection of implements (such as lengths of rubber hose) that can inflict severe pain, yet leave little or no external marks.
-- 8th of 7, Oct 26 2016


It's much easier to proofread on paper. That's why people do it. You cathc more mistakes and typos that way, as well as mistakes.
-- ytk, Oct 27 2016


If the printer printed in pencil you could rub out the mistakes and reprint just the words that needed coreting
-- pocmloc, Oct 27 2016


// It's much easier to proofread on paper. //

I find it much easier to proofread on the screen. It's probably just what you've grown up with—I remember one of my English teachers in school (who had grown up before computers) saying it's pretty much impossible to successfully proofread onscreen, but I think most of my classmates found it easier.

Plus, that way, the spelling/grammar checker catches half of my mistakes for me, leaving my brain with more resources to catch the rest.

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How about the office get one of those reusable-paper printers (which erase and re-print on the same (special) paper hundreds or thousands of times) and designating that printer and paper to be used for drafts? Then those who want to print things out to proofread can do so for almost free.
-- notexactly, Oct 27 2016


I find proofreading the post is easier than text in the annotation window, for some reason that misses me.
-- wjt, Oct 28 2016


I never need to proofead.
-- RayfordSteele, Oct 28 2016



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