Slugging it out

Today I learned something with the computer at the school. The ICP teacher and I worked on a test today. The first part is something that I had done before. The first part is the part where you make the test. That I've done before. However, today I got to experience the joy of bubble sheets.
I don't think I'd used the bubble sheets as a teacher before, mostly because I generally didn't make multiple choice tests before this year. This is partly because when teaching computers (which I have tended to teach) I normally had a "hands-on" portion, and when creating code, I normally had a part of the test where students wrote code.
Also, multiple choice questions are sort of hard to write. They are wonderful to use, but they are hard to write (well, comparatively, I suppose).
So, back to the bubble sheets. I've used the "fake" bubble sheets before, but for this coming test we are using the really, real scantron sheets. The reason for this is that we are going to analyze how well students do on the test. Hopefully, they do well. It will make the analysis (and grades) much more fun. Anyway, to to do the analysis, some computer somewhere (through the web) gets copies of all sorts of stuff along with a list of state standards.
The thing that I did today was "pre-slug" the answer sheets. One of the steps is to send the answer sheets through the printer and get names and so forth printed on them. That is known as pre-slugging apparently. Who knew.
And, I might add, as I have mentioned before, printers are basically evil. The report (with ten dozen pages) went to the wrong (color laser) printer instead of the printer that the tests were in. The program assumed that I wanted to use the other one. Probably the printer tricked it. Printers are sneaky. Always keep an eye on your printer.