Adventures in Printing
Apr. 4th, 2021 10:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
writerkitPrinters are actually demonic creatures.
Which is to say, the Windows work laptop is throwing "can't connect to this network" as an error, which has... some fixes but none of them are great and none of them are permanent, and I don't really want to spend a lot of time troubleshooting the laptop just so I have it functional enough to spend a lot of time troubleshooting the printer when I don't even think it will work. (This shouldn't be necessary, but HP has decided to make printers that can't function just by plugging them into the laptop like a normal machine; you *have* to have wireless connectivity. Which I specifically didn't want because all of my machines have intermittent problems with wireless connectivity.)
Besides which, the only reason I need the Windows laptop is that HP has decreed that you can initially set up the printer only on a Windows or Mac-- which, person maintaining the list of Linux-friendly printers, is not what I would consider a Linux-friendly printer; you are a liar-- and I think I may have gotten that part done enough during the last time I was doing this since I got far enough to be stymied by the disappearance of my printer paper. Now that I've got more printer paper, though, I can't install the HP file on my Linux laptop because it insists it is unable to locate this package. Which I downloaded. And is sitting in the same directory I'm in when running the apt install command.
And all of this means that I've now been actively trying to install the new printer for several days and have not yet actually printed anything.
Have I mentioned that I hate printers?
(Update: I have now succeeded in printing from a hardwired connection between the Windows laptop and the printer. This does not help with either the Windows laptop's wireless issues or getting the printer to work with the Linux laptop, but it does mean I've printed both the things I want to print right now. This is not, however, a long-term solution.)
Which is to say, the Windows work laptop is throwing "can't connect to this network" as an error, which has... some fixes but none of them are great and none of them are permanent, and I don't really want to spend a lot of time troubleshooting the laptop just so I have it functional enough to spend a lot of time troubleshooting the printer when I don't even think it will work. (This shouldn't be necessary, but HP has decided to make printers that can't function just by plugging them into the laptop like a normal machine; you *have* to have wireless connectivity. Which I specifically didn't want because all of my machines have intermittent problems with wireless connectivity.)
Besides which, the only reason I need the Windows laptop is that HP has decreed that you can initially set up the printer only on a Windows or Mac-- which, person maintaining the list of Linux-friendly printers, is not what I would consider a Linux-friendly printer; you are a liar-- and I think I may have gotten that part done enough during the last time I was doing this since I got far enough to be stymied by the disappearance of my printer paper. Now that I've got more printer paper, though, I can't install the HP file on my Linux laptop because it insists it is unable to locate this package. Which I downloaded. And is sitting in the same directory I'm in when running the apt install command.
And all of this means that I've now been actively trying to install the new printer for several days and have not yet actually printed anything.
Have I mentioned that I hate printers?
(Update: I have now succeeded in printing from a hardwired connection between the Windows laptop and the printer. This does not help with either the Windows laptop's wireless issues or getting the printer to work with the Linux laptop, but it does mean I've printed both the things I want to print right now. This is not, however, a long-term solution.)
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Date: 2021-04-05 06:10 pm (UTC)