Post by @virtuosew@mathstodon.xyz

Grrr.
Printer rant incoming.

We have a wireless printer. And most of the time, it works. A few days ago, it would not listen to my laptop, and I had to send the document I needed to print to @ColinTheMathmo. Printed perfectly for him.

Grrr.

Today I have printing to do, and just in case, I've found the cable and plugged it in, and sat down, bracing myself to troubleshoot.

Wireless works perfectly, first time. Ordinary printing, and high quality on special paper, both successful.

So the printer needs a pacifier before it will work for me now?

/end rant

#Printer #FirstWorldProblems

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Martin Whitworth

@Martin_Whitworth@mathstodon.xyz 28 min. ago

@ColinTheMathmo @virtuosew I feel the need to vent my printer frustration. I bought a printer and installed the relevant driver. That stopped working, so I tried updating the driver from the manufacturer’s website but it doesn’t work. I’ve installed a 3rd party one, but it doesn’t cope with e.g. pdf. My work around is to use my work laptop, for which I have a working driver. On the positive side, I have managed to support my elderly father in getting his printer to work wirelessly.

R. Sunder-Raj

@HypercubicPeg@mathstodon.xyz 38 min. ago

@virtuosew @ColinTheMathmo I am glad that you found something that works.

We have a printer/scanner with a large size scan bed which I occasionally need for something. I have resisted setting it up “properly” to get the iPad to talk to it because I cannot stand all the permissions that it demands, and it probably will not work anyway once I do (I think I tried to figure it out once, but gave up because it was taking too long for the time I had available and the stress factor was too high).

I have pretty much given up on connectivity, and use it by scanning to a USB stick, or printing from the USB stick. Fortunately my iPad pro will read/write to USB-C, not all iPads will.

Pozorvlak

@pozorvlak@mathstodon.xyz 4 hr. ago

@virtuosew @ColinTheMathmo This morning I discovered I needed to update one of the many printouts I am bringing to MathsJam. The crucial changes were on later pages, but there was also a nice-to-have change on the first page, so what the hell, might as well reprint the whole thing, it's not that long.

Of course, it printed the first page and then stopped with an error message. Which it printed on a second sheet, making it unusable for subsequent print jobs.

Rachel Wright

@virtuosew@mathstodon.xyz 4 hr. ago

@pozorvlak @ColinTheMathmo Aaargh! Of course it did!