Hit 1,000 repair logs in my database last week, did not see that coming

I keep a running spreadsheet of every computer I work on with date, symptoms, and what fixed it. Last Wednesday I hit 1,000 entries exactly when I logged a Dell Optiplex from a dental office in Springfield. It started as a way to remember what I did for repeat customers, but now I can look up any common issue and see patterns like which power supplies die fastest. Does anyone else track their repairs this way, or am I just being too organized?

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angelacooper17d ago

Read a piece a while back about how dental offices have really high printer failure rates because of that fine dust getting everywhere, and @felixb25's comment about tooth dust causing jams makes total sense. I've noticed the same thing in my own logs - dental offices and auto body shops both kill printers way faster than regular offices. The patterns in your spreadsheet probably tell you more about the equipment than you realize, like which power supplies are actually junk versus just overheating in bad spots.

felixb2518d ago

1,000 logs and nothing about how many times you've fixed the same damn printer three weeks later. Sounds like you're one bad power supply away from becoming a statistic, not a pattern analyst. My spreadsheet has 47 entries for "dental office" and exactly 3 different real problems, the other 44 are just "paper jam caused by tooth dust.