Marketing 'Genius' Destroyed A Printer By Trying To Fix A Paper Jam
The Register, Monday, January 26th, 2026
This week, meet a reader we'll Regomize as "Louis" who told us he once managed the IT operations at a leasing company.
"We made a lot of money leasing computer equipment, so the owner allowed us to buy kit that wasn't strictly necessary, but that was useful," he wrote.
Which is how the company acquired a color printer, to satisfy the marketing department's desire to illuminate sales presentations with fancy charts and graphs.