Printer insanity

So I have this spiffy new printer, right? Well, I'm doing a bit of a field-test on it right now. I had the brilliant idea to print off a story instead of reading it on the screen because my eyes are starting to hurt....turns out the story I want to read is 160 pages long.

Yeah.

So I turned on the printer and set it up to do its thing. (Thank God for the built-in duplexing feature! I'm saving 80 pages that way...) Out of curiosity, I opened up the printer status box that should, in theory, tell me what page it's on/how many pages it has left. I say in theory because in reality, it most emphatically does not. Under the "Pages" field, it gives a random number followed by a slash and the number of pages in the document. 

For example, right now it reads: 480/160. The only thing I've figured out so far is that the left-hand number is divisible by three. It has no discernible connection to the actual number of pages printed. The left-hand number goes up by three every time it prints a page, but dividing by three does not give the number of pages printed. (The last time I tried, it said I'd printed 152 pages, which is definitely a lie. I'd printed about...40?) It isn't a fraction either.

It's driving me a little nutty because, dammit, I have a right to know how much has printed! (Also, every time the printer pauses to flip its paper over for the duplexing, there are literally six automatic pop-ups on screen. I hate that so much... I wish I could turn the popups off because it is incredibly difficult to type with them on. They all steal the cursor and interrupt the work, you know?)

~ciao