Post by dave on Nov 11, 2012 10:45:17 GMT -5
I got so tired of HP that I went to Amazon and bought a Brother laser printer for $109. It arrived 2 days later (I NEVER pay Amazon extra for quick shipping and everything has ALWAYS arrived in three days or less, even though their quote is 7 to 10 days.) It installed on my home network quickly and effortlessly and so far is working well.
I never cared very much about color anyway, and I've known for some time that laser was cheaper per printed page. I was just waiting for laser to come down in price.
And I wanted to get away from HP. Every *%#@ time I turn the #@#*
HP printer on it's wants to take me through the print head alignment routine where it asks that I print an alignment sheet and then scan it, only to be told every time it can't find the print alignment sheet, etc., etc.
And a few years ago when I installed HP's print driver, the lights practically dimmed and the hard drive groaned as their CD attempted to install every program HP had ever written for God knows what purposes.
I've always considered it convenient to have my printer on the wifi network, so the device can sit elsewhere in the room and not have to be a few feet away from my PC. When I attempted to put my old HP on the home network, you'd think I was asking to be enrolled in the DARPA Senior Staff Nuclear Attack Alert Network. Together with the LINKSYS router network routines (another bundle of crap) , it took me all afternoon. In particular, I remember the software telling me to first connect the printer via the cable because HP needed some essential information from it, like "Hi! I'm a printer! Here I am!" The message displayed was "Looking For Printer." This went on for some minutes while the hard drive light flickered and I kept saying, "the #$@$* printer is right there at the end of the *#@#* wire, for God's sake!"
By supper time I had the printer installed on the network, but I soon noticed a strange occurrence. Every ten or fifteen minutes my PC would simply hang up for about 20 seconds. At the time I was running a little lean on memory so at first I didn't let it bother me. But after a while it became annoying enough for me to begin to seek out the cause. Nothing looked amiss in the Task Manager processes list. For the next couple of days I ran with one nonessential process or another turned off and finally eliminated the problem to an HP routine that every ten or fifteen minutes performed, according to online documentation, "a much needed scan of the network to assure device integrity." There was only me and the printer on the network. HP's software used a full 100% of the processor cycles and took a full 20 seconds to determine our integrity. Spinning the processor engine at 3.2 billion hertz per second, I can't imagine what the hell kind of integrity HP was looking for. Had it had the results of the personality test I took in high school, it could have compared me to every other student since Socrates kept Plato after school for shooting spit balls.
I have found HP's hardware to be top notch and never had a problem with it. But their software drove me crazy.
I never cared very much about color anyway, and I've known for some time that laser was cheaper per printed page. I was just waiting for laser to come down in price.
And I wanted to get away from HP. Every *%#@ time I turn the #@#*
HP printer on it's wants to take me through the print head alignment routine where it asks that I print an alignment sheet and then scan it, only to be told every time it can't find the print alignment sheet, etc., etc.
And a few years ago when I installed HP's print driver, the lights practically dimmed and the hard drive groaned as their CD attempted to install every program HP had ever written for God knows what purposes.
I've always considered it convenient to have my printer on the wifi network, so the device can sit elsewhere in the room and not have to be a few feet away from my PC. When I attempted to put my old HP on the home network, you'd think I was asking to be enrolled in the DARPA Senior Staff Nuclear Attack Alert Network. Together with the LINKSYS router network routines (another bundle of crap) , it took me all afternoon. In particular, I remember the software telling me to first connect the printer via the cable because HP needed some essential information from it, like "Hi! I'm a printer! Here I am!" The message displayed was "Looking For Printer." This went on for some minutes while the hard drive light flickered and I kept saying, "the #$@$* printer is right there at the end of the *#@#* wire, for God's sake!"
By supper time I had the printer installed on the network, but I soon noticed a strange occurrence. Every ten or fifteen minutes my PC would simply hang up for about 20 seconds. At the time I was running a little lean on memory so at first I didn't let it bother me. But after a while it became annoying enough for me to begin to seek out the cause. Nothing looked amiss in the Task Manager processes list. For the next couple of days I ran with one nonessential process or another turned off and finally eliminated the problem to an HP routine that every ten or fifteen minutes performed, according to online documentation, "a much needed scan of the network to assure device integrity." There was only me and the printer on the network. HP's software used a full 100% of the processor cycles and took a full 20 seconds to determine our integrity. Spinning the processor engine at 3.2 billion hertz per second, I can't imagine what the hell kind of integrity HP was looking for. Had it had the results of the personality test I took in high school, it could have compared me to every other student since Socrates kept Plato after school for shooting spit balls.
I have found HP's hardware to be top notch and never had a problem with it. But their software drove me crazy.
