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Originally Posted by AstralTraveller
First rule of thesis production: "The printer will break down the day you go to print." Seen it too many times.
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Yep, heard about that one before

Or they're short on ink/paper, the typesetter/printer is sick that day, or they're closed for some reason, unexpectedly.
That's like looking for reference material...it's an absolute certainty that the journal article and/or book you're looking for will be already on loan to someone else, supervisor/other academic, or temporarily lost.