I got tired of spending 30 seconds crawling around under the table to unplug the printer cable from my home computer every time I want to print something off my laptop. Logically, the solution is to spend an hour setting up a secure home network so that I can sit on my ass, ten feet away, and print without getting up.
Except that I still have to get up and turn on the desktop so that I can access the printer from my laptop. Pathetic.
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Printers are, of course, the spawn of Satan. Especially the ink jet kind.
On the basis of this article about emissions from laser printers, our department administrator came by this week to take my HP 1200 series LaserJet away.
I said I wanted to keep it.
Imagine my surprise when I try to print a document, and nothing comes out of the printer. The printer isn't claiming it's processing the document - and in one instance, while waiting for my document, I saw the printer fire up and spit out someone else's document.
Most people expect a wait when they call tech support.
Knowledgeable users arrange to have something to do to kill
some time: a book, magazine, something like that.
This is the story of Timothy Scott Short, who is going to have to wait
a very long time.
...either get a network print server, or get one of those swanky printers that connects directly to the network either wired or wirelessly. :-) Went through all this myself a couple of months back.
Airport express. It's a cheap wireless hub with ports for a USB printer and an audio jack. I can sit on my deck with my laptop, stream iTunes to my stereo, print anything I want, and occasionally scream to my wife to bring me a tall cold glass of iced tea. It's paradise!