nixCraft 🐧Be honest, do you know how to fix printer problems? Or do you just ignore them because they're such a pain in a$$?
🦃 Kat Callahan 
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Umer@nixCraft what printer???
Erik Menzel@nixCraft
I don't have printer problems.
- I try to print
- Printer doesn't work
- I kick the printer
- Printer doesn't work
- I throw printer out of the window
- no problem.
I don't have printer problems.
- I try to print
- Printer doesn't work
- I kick the printer
- Printer doesn't work
- I throw printer out of the window
- no problem.
cmdrSprocket@nixCraft One tray thinks it's jammed ... since >5y. 😬
John Regan@nixCraft There are times where fixing the printer would have been the faster option, but I decided I'd rather spend the extra time to figure out how to just not print.
rewarp@nixCraft I tell my parents to go bother the shops that offer printing services, because it's time to let go.
Draken BlackKnight@nixCraft
Office Space offers advice on how to handle printers, soundtracked by Cyprus Hill.
Office Space offers advice on how to handle printers, soundtracked by Cyprus Hill.
Jabawack81@nixCraft mandatory reply: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9wsjroVlu8
Office Space - Printer Scene (UNCENSORED)
One of the favorite scenes from one of my favorite movies (1999) Office Space.
DrYak@nixCraft Head pops up from behind a giant mess of parts that spans the whole flat and starts to feature several archeological strata:
- What do you mean "know how to fix the printer"?
(I am in the "just one more solenoid swap and then I swear i am sure it's going to work" camp)
Mungo Schlomo Park
Vervain@nixCraft Honestly if turning it off and on again, and restarting the spooler service doesn't help, I find an urgent call elsewhere so someone else can pick it up 😅
Dave Anderson@nixCraft other than kicking them or hitting them with hammers?
CaptainMalu2 or 3D?
I have a little knowledge in fixing printer problems. The knowledge for 3D printers is way bigger. But I also use them more often.
I tend to ignore the errors after 1 or 2 attempts just to not destroy the printer in anger.
SirWumpus 👾🍁@nixCraft Just use the local UPS Store, which is like a Kinko's, and take a USB stick with your required printing. At 6 cents CAD a sheet, its nice for small jobs.
Jens Link@nixCraft Which printer problems? Buying new toner very couple of years and refilling paper every couple of month?
Acesabe
Todd Sizemore@nixCraft I wish I could but my wife loves to print stuff. So I get to fight the printer at least weekly. Not even buying a higher end model has helped reliability. The problem isn't with the hardware it seems.
Chip35@nixCraft I never seemed to have any issues with Dot Matrix printers. Only after HPPCL started to become several standards at once did things start to get screwed up.
Alien software, human hardware@nixCraft i fixed my printer problems by buying a brother color laser.
Koos Pol 🇺🇦
Root Moose
Quien Sabe@nixCraft Depends on the criticality of the document. Also depends on the day. 😎
Progenitus@nixCraft
Printer problems? CUPS just lets me print on my 20+ years old printer
Printer problems? CUPS just lets me print on my 20+ years old printer
petur 😶🇺🇦🇵🇸🇹🇼@nixCraft one thing I do not blame the manufacturers for, is driver problems on Windows. The print spooler can lock drivers which messes up driver updates where you can get half updated systems if the installer isn't written by a paranoid dev.
So if you need to update a printer driver, always stop the spooler service.
Paul Wouters 🇪🇺🇨🇦@nixCraft I have to print less than once a year, meaning 2-3 fedora releases ago. I learned not to spend an hour fixing it but use my wife’s Mac instead
Endymion_MallornDepends on the problem with the printer.
Taffer 🇨🇦
@nixCraft in order until it works: power cycle, reinstall drivers, exorcism, burn it with fire, nuke the site from orbit it’s the only way to be sure
dodothedev🦤💻@nixCraft
I pass them on to the supplier. Or, turn them off and on again, typical IT support resolution.
I pass them on to the supplier. Or, turn them off and on again, typical IT support resolution.
RadioFreeMe@nixCraft That answer all depends if I have a service contract or not!
Alexander DyasSalesman colleague of mine, years ago, slow day, tidying up some old equipment. “I’ve got this” he announces, bravely lifting a laser printer over his head and manoeuvring it into an attic space above him.
Apparently the toner cartridge wasn’t sealed. A veritable torrent of thick black powder flowed down the front of his neat white shirt and his suit trousers.
I alerted him to this fact, eventually.
Printer problems.
Agron Noka@nixCraft you should ask, or make a survey, with what printers are Linux users most happy?
november 🀄 in my mahjong era@nixCraft I don't own a printer. I use the library. It's much less stressful.
bluGill@nixCraft Depends on the printer. HP used to be good, but many of you weren't even born in those days - I finally gave up repairing my HP from those days almost 10 years ago, the brother I replaced it with just works.
Though I often just send things to a local print shop, which avoids a lot of pain.