It's been half a century - Why am I still warring with my printer?

[DaveC426913]

TL;DR

Sunspots aren't the right flavour today. Printer not connected.

I give up. Time to buy a new printer. Never mind when the ink runs out, I just but a new one whenever the network connection stops working.

It's on the network. I've set it up twice now. Little blue light is steady.

Laptop on the same network does not see it no matter how I try to connect or even install. I can type in the device name and IP address all I want, it never finds it.

Other laptop sees it fine.

It's been a half century for printers and computers. This isn't *#@$&% brain surgery.

 

[pines-demon]

TL;DR: Sunspots aren't the right flavour today. Printer not connected.

I give up. Time to buy a new printer. Never mind when the ink runs out, I just but a new one whenever the network connection stops working.

It's on the network. I've set it up twice now. Little blue light is steady.

Laptop on the same network does not see it no matter how I try to connect or even install. I can type in the device name and IP address all I want, it never finds it.

Other laptop sees it fine.

It's been a half century for printers and computers. This isn't *#@$&% brain surgery.

I strongly believe printer companies do not sell printers or software for printers, they sell ink. Printers are relatively cheap now, what they want is that you subscribe to these companies for ink cartridges which cost much more in the long run. You need to buy more cartridges even if some ink is still in (sometimes just because the blue ran out and not the others) and you cannot buy the cartridges from other companies. They have never cared that your printer works correctly (well just a little to sell you the printer).

 

[FactChecker]

This has been a question I have had for decades. Why is it so hard and mysterious to keep a printer connected? I truly have bought a new printer when the old one wouldn't connect with WiFi on the network. I am considering moving the printer to my computer desk and connecting by USB/ethernet cable.

The band, Rage Against The Machine, never said what machine they were raging against, but we think it was a printer.

 

[jedishrfu]

Yes companies sell ink cartridges specific to your printer. $60 per cartridge roughly.

Not sure about Epson with their deep ink wells.

 

[gmax137]

I have a printer connected directly to my desktop computer. It worked fine for years, then one day the computer couldn't see the printer. If I needed to print, I emailed the doc to my wife's laptop and printed from there. Over our wifi, to the same printer. I've been doing this for over a year now. A week ago, I wanted to print and without thinking hit ctrl-P, lo & behold, the printer woke up and printed like it used to. Go figure.

 

[DaveC426913]

If I needed to print, I emailed the doc to my wife's laptop and printed from there. Over our wifi, to the same printer.

Preach, bruh.

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

Companies don't make money off the hardware, they make money off the ink. Thus, printers have been and always will be unimpressive. The best brand is Brother.