goddammit printers
Mar. 25th, 2023 05:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
solarbirdBEST THING: when your networked ancient but non-DRM laserprinter has been crashing on certain PDFs for months so you think there must be something new in PDFs and maybe it’s replacement time BUT
you discover your printer has room for RAM expansion so you check and it’s at minimum configuration so maybe it’s just running out of RAM so you buy some old compatible RAM off eBay BUT
before you install it you try to find some old PDFs that crashed the printer so you can know if new RAM actually fixed anything and you try printing them again before installing the RAM because you’re smart like that AND
…none of them crash it anymore.
goddammit printers
why
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Date: 2023-03-26 01:32 am (UTC)Only things worse than aprinters is an MFM, which combines all the bad features of a printer and a scanner. (As an extra bonus, the printer either breaks or becomes clogged with dried-up ink, while the scanner remains usable.)
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Date: 2023-03-26 01:37 am (UTC)(The driver is supposed to work. But it crashes on install, 100% of the time. So.)
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Date: 2023-03-26 03:52 am (UTC)Such a pain.
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Date: 2023-03-26 09:54 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2023-03-26 05:33 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2023-03-26 09:55 am (UTC)The only other thing that happened was power cycling it a few days ago to see about what kind of memory it might want inside. First time it had been off in a while being a server device and all that. (And yes energy star etc etc etc.)
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Date: 2023-03-26 02:55 pm (UTC)That seems like something that belongs in Wanted Words. Which should be back in print under a revived CBC Books imprint.
For the record,
Date: 2023-03-26 03:03 pm (UTC)