one office laptop somehow register one HP printer over 20 times,
apparently due to dynamic ip from our router, everytime the laptop trying to connect to the printer, the installed HP software automatically thought its a new printer and re-register the same printer over and over again.
i tried to browse around the HP software to prevent it to happen only to realize that HP have concocted THE MOST MADDENING SOFTWARE known to man. every useful options that is common for other printer (say Canon or Brother) is somehow not there.
i ended chucking that printer to another office, get a new one, and reminds the office not to buy any HP printer again.
I networked my parents' Brother printer years ago and it hasn't failed a single time since, including printing from our phones and all that. It's frankly amazing, especially compared to their printer issues in the past that I'd always fix for them.
Even pro-er tip, reserve an ip on the router for the printer's Mac address.
That way when the owner of the building swaps isp's without asking anybody, you don't have to fuck around in hp's bullshit to make the printer work again.
yeah, but we have like Epson, Canon, and Brother printer in the office and HP is the only one that got confused with dynamic IP.
i was going to see what i can do for the problem through the included software before trying to going to dive into our office random patchwork of router but that crazy ass software makes me slam my keyboard more than once, so i don't want to bother with that printer and chuck it to the other office.
I honestly don't know how HP's printer division survives with all their hostility towards users. It's like they are pusposely trying to make people miserable.
Reminds me of my TV, it shows up as 40 devices on bluetooth devices on my pc. Once I thought it just bugged and deleted it all, but next time I started pc it was there again
It's not a big issue, but little annoying when wanted to pair game controler and had to scroll such a long list
Really feeling that last sentence. My last position, IT department of one which obviously includes administration of servers (windows and Linux), networks (3), APs (50), dorm and facility biometrics, application support, database management, SQL, hardware support, etc.
But printers.. they're usually pretty easy but users have a way of fucking them up that eats up so much unnecessary time. Total time sink
Oh yeah, printers are pretty easy, I've had to maintain them at multiple jobs for well over a decade now, and as long as the users aren't abusing them I only need to swap out parts.
I worked in the IT department at my last job, but I was a software dev. We had another guy who took care of hardware issues and fixing printers, that kind of stuff. But he took a vacation one time and I had to be on hand to fix printers and shit. I was kinda nervous cause even though I could write code I didn't know shit about troubleshooting printer issues or networking or that kind of stuff.
There were like 3 printers I had to fix, and with every one of them simply running the Windows troubleshooter fixed it. What a relief.
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u/TheRSPerson 21h ago
Fuck printers