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Hed posted:If I buy something old but sturdy/enterprise with a JetDirect like a Color Laserjet 5550dn or 4600dtn can I run some software to also offer it up as an AirPrint device? AFAIK you can use softwares like printopia or presto but those require windows or Mac(along with a pc always on), or a lantronics xprintserver but that cost a lot. If you need a hp printer with AirPrint/eprint the m4xx series is cheap and reliable(just slow). I have a m476dn (AirPrint works perfectly) and I’m currently running on 0% ink since a year but it still prints fine.
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Define cheap, brother have plenty of picks for laser mfp in mono or color.
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Pham Nuwen posted:It's probably time for me to get a laser printer, after two recent trips to the public library to print forms. Most workgroup MFP (aka non-poo poo all in ones) will let you scan to a shared folder(create one on your NAS or in a pinch on your pc) so no need for software to be on your pc. Brother are good for cheap laser MFPs. Software is a tad clunky. Just try getting a printer with google print and AirPrint. That way you can use it on phones/tablets.
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Nov 9, 2019 17:00
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Heners_UK posted:FOR FUCKS SAKE Google... You're killing Google Cloud Print? Thanks, from all Android users. That article has some prime takes “we are killing a device-agnostic remote printing platform because we added CUPS(and its shittastic device specific drivers) to chrome os”. My printer still have AirPrint and hp eprint to fall back to but I’m kinda pissed.
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Nov 21, 2019 22:08
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Volguus posted:? What was that even good for? What would people (or you) would use that cloud print thing for? I got a lovely HP printer not too long ago and it has things like I could send an email to this address and it would print the document. WTF? Who in their right mind would want to do such a thing? What's the use case? Printing from your android mobile without having to juggle between each printer vendor custom poo poo apps, print your stuff while on the move so by the time you get home it’s there, print directly from google web apps without having to setup poo poo on your incognito/kiosk pc, just to name a few. You could do most of them with hp eprint but not as cleanly.
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Nov 21, 2019 23:41
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Geemer posted:If you ever figure out someone you don't like's printer email address you can sign it up for all sorts of newsletters or send dumb pictures. HP ePrint has a whitelist mode where you set up a list of family emails to print and ignore the rest. No weird/unknown print yet in more than five years of ownership. Volguus posted:I hear all these "use cases" and I'm sorry, I just don't see it. I mean, it only takes 20 seconds to print something. I would never think that i need to print something while I'm away from the house for it to be "ready" . Or ... "having to juggle between each printer vendor custom poo poo apps," ? What apps? What vendors? Both airprint(ios) and hp print services(android) require LOCAL LAN to work(i don't know about brother or other brands but i suspect they work the same), so if i wanted to go to say a theatre after work, instead of just print the tickets via cloudprint and pick them when i get home, i would have to open a VPN link and then print those. Some people don't like to print personal poo poo on work-owned equipment so i could print stuff from my work desktop with cloudprint without pissing off my infosec team. On my work laptop i just required to upload stuff to google drive and press print from there, no interaction with chrome or local os, no need to install whatever infernal concoction hp laserjets requires to work. SlowBloke fucked around with this message at 11:12 on Nov 22, 2019 |
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Nov 22, 2019 10:33
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Volguus posted:I suppose others didn't either since they're shutting down the service. Google has recently killed its GCM platform, which was used by an awful lot of old google services. I suspect it's related. That and the fact that cloud print is a resource/dev overhead compared to just add cups to the chromeos image and pray for the best.
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Nov 22, 2019 14:38
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Freakazoid_ posted:Now why would that be? I know we can just say "covid" but I wasn't aware this particular sector was hit. I'd have to guess more people working at home means more documents need to be printed at home? It's like toilet paper, there has been a run on home office equipment that most brick&mortar stores weren't ready to cover. Eventually stock is going to refill but until then prices are going to be higher than norm.
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Apr 23, 2020 10:29
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:Is there a current recommendation / consensus for a reliable all-in-one printer/scanner/copier? Or a "best available" given the current ~*all this*~ ? Brother or hp are my common picks. If you say color or b/w I might even suggest a model....
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:Oh, yeah, B/W, I ain't splurging on color Hp m145 or m148 depending on the budget. The letters after the numbers indicate if if there is a duplex module(d), a integrated WiFi(w) or wired card(n)
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May 2, 2020 18:26
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SourKraut posted:So what are the current views on HP Laserjets? I currently have a HP multi-purpose Officejet that just died on me, and it seems like to get it repaired is going to cost almost as much as the printer cost me itself. Seems decent, just be aware that there is a little bit of delay from sending the print to the printer spitting out prints that seems to be a bit slower than average on low end hp laser jet MFP
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Sep 2, 2020 19:54
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Rooted Vegetable posted:Tomorrow is the last day of Google Cloud Print. If you have an HP printer, ePrint should still work, letting you just send an email with a pdf attachment to print.
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Jan 1, 2021 14:37
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Rooted Vegetable posted:I don't, but I do have a Brother. Brother equivalent to HP ePrint apps is called Web Connect, you upload the docs to gdrive/box/etc and then print from those. Direct mobile should be done over the iPrint&scan app but i've never used it remotely. Your printer doesn't mention it but there is a direct eprint equivalent https://help.brother-usa.com/app/an...20use%20Attach. SlowBloke fucked around with this message at 00:24 on Jan 2, 2021 |
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Jan 1, 2021 18:15
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CaptainSarcastic posted:Kind of a general question here: Do you have a nas or any other network storage available(failing that a usb drive)? Otherwise you are going to need a MFP with a drive to do scan to file or file to print features. If you have storage available pretty much every modern laser printer will do.
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Jan 2, 2021 23:24
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Just got in my mail a reminder from my Microsoft partners, Azure Universal Print goes GA in March 2021. If you are going to engage in bulk MFP purchases shortly, you might want to ask your supplier for direct compatibility if you can
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Feb 7, 2021 19:49
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Azure Universal Print went GA yesterday, meaning everyone with a A3/5 or E3/5 can use it now. Sadly they decided to use print procesess (eg print jobs, not print pages) as payment structure. Each user provides 5 monthly print processes to the tenant pool, if you want more you need to buy addons (which add 500 pages each). IMHO numbers are too low to make it useful, anybody which has print complexity issues will require far more prints than the free quotas and asking management for funds when local print server works fine might be hard.
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Thanks Ants posted:E: Are you sure about the 100 jobs per user figure? This page https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/universal-print/fundamentals/universal-print-license#whats-included-with-universal-print says it's only 5 jobs per month per person. I read that number quickly in the stream of ignite news, I might have confused it. 5 print/month pretty much kills it.
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Mar 3, 2021 23:57
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Facebook Aunt posted:How do "print jobs" even work? Like if I print a sheet off, then I read it and see I made a typo, so I print it again is that two jobs? Meanwhile someone printing off a 300 page spreadsheet is one job? Each time you send poo poo to a printer -> print job. Page counts are irrelevant.
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Mar 4, 2021 19:37
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Thanks Ants posted:I've been looking at small multi-function options and a lot of the features I want (duplex printing and scanning, non-poo poo user interface, good cloud storage options) seem to be exclusive to colour laser models, which then come with insane costs for the toner packs. Even looking at compatible supplies it's almost the price of the printer to put toners into it. Have you investigated brother 27xx mfp models? They should cover all your requirements
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Oct 27, 2021 12:02
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Nostalgamus posted:As far as I can tell there's no thread for scanners, but they're basically the same device these days, so I'll ask here. If you scan old books i would suggest to use portable scanners so that you don't stress the book bindings too much, We used IRIScan units to cover our legacy book archive.
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Jan 4, 2022 11:52
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Orvin posted:Thanks for the idea to use a thermal label printer. I will pass that along to see if that is a possibility. +1 on the thermal printer, brother makes decent units in the QL series which now have multicolor label options, just be aware that the label roll (and final output) on any thermal unit will get stiff over time due to the plastic degrading so don’t bulk purchase consumables.
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Jan 27, 2022 19:54
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MagusDraco posted:We hae a Sharp MXC301W (or something close to that model #) purchased through some management company (instead of leasing though we paid for ink and servicing). The company got bought out by another. The new company dropped us a year later due to "we don't service this manufacturer anymore" or something like that after we had their tech come out and do a repair. Never buy a mfp unless it’s for home usage, lease it every time.
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Rocko Bonaparte posted:I saw the HP Color LaserJet Pro MFP M182nw. While looking into this, I saw a lot of stuff about HP being fussy with their cartridges and/or requiring an account logged in to something to print. What the hell?. The cart thing is just a chip to validate the toners as genuine, i also don't advise going with compatible units since it will make the prints look poo poo(if i remember correctly m1xx have drums and ink in the same cart). The account is required for connected services or their managed ink product(where you pay hp a monthly fee to get toners and maintenance for that printer).
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HorseHeadBed posted:Not sure whether to post here or the Mac software thread, but I've got an HP M281fdw colour laser MFD. I have occasional problems where MS Word documents make it completely lose its poo poo. The printer will spool up to print, then crash and reboot. The screen usually says Code 79 service error, which when I research it says it's either a corrupt firmware or a dodgy DIMM (AFAIK I can't replace the memory on this printer and the code seems like a generic bit of HP speak). Can you test making a PDF out of that document, putting on a fat32 usb drive and connecting that usb drive to the front usb port? If it crashes that way too, the error is on the word side of things.
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HorseHeadBed posted:Yep, that crashed it, too. Tried printing it from LibreOffice and it did print, albeit by substituting Courier for some other monospaced font. Suspect that the problem's in the font or something? Anyway, I'm back to using LibreOffice because although it has a horrible UI, it seems a little bit better behaved in not doing stupid poo poo like this. Word will try to keep fonts as defined in the docx file, hoping that the end user(be it another computer or printer) will understand them even if the computer is running on do not. Which might end up in issues when the rendering is done one the printer(postscript) rather than on the pc(pcl or whatever equivalent your printer make uses). Unless you work in professional print, i advise against postscript drivers if you can.
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HorseHeadBed posted:The HP driver has options to do with card stocks and things that I need for my work. What’s odd is uninstalling MS Word seems to made the Courier font disappear from my system. I thought it was one of the fonts that came with Mac OS, but Word ate it all the same.. Courier is an optional font on Monterey and higher, you can reinstall it using Font Book.
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Jul 25, 2022 14:52
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HorseHeadBed posted:Hm. It's not showing as one of the faded out fonts in Font Book. Unless you know of some mojo to get it back, I guess I'm using Courier New, which isn't quite as heavy and legible to my old eyes. https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT212587 It seems that simple courier has been removed, i misremembered being an optional download
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Tricky Ed posted:I'll start this out saying that I've been HP biased since last century when I was an office tech keeping a fleet of HP 4100s running. My current printer is an 11 year old HP 2025dn which should keep working for a long time, except HP has only released a generic driver for Windows 11 so it looks like I'm losing features on my new computer. There is a good chance the universal printer driver(PCL5) will cover all the functions of your printer and HP has pretty much stopped developing custom drivers for anything without a scanner/fax inside. Try checking if the universal driver works for your printer.
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Epson making laser printers is a new one for me, no shop or distributor here held anything but ecotank units from them.
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My color laser printer (hp m476dn) is still running on the original color toners. Spent about 400€ and hasn’t skipped a beat.
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Autsj posted:Question for the thread of people that actually know printers. (I don't, I just hate them) I would suggest getting a networked printer instead of a USB-only one, that way you could use it more efficiently. Jumping to HL-L2350DW adds a wifi interface and HL-L2375DW adds both wired and wireless links.
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PBCrunch posted:I'm tired of loving around with CUPS and leaving a computer on all the time to print things. My wife has an iPhone and a Windows laptop, our daughter has an iPad from school and an old Chromebook running Arch, and I have an Android phone and a host of machines running Arch. I want to be able to scan or print from any of these machines. You need to search for airprint and mopria in the spec sheet. I think pretty much every laser brother will have those.
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knox_harrington posted:I want to buy a new multifunction printer/scanner for home office use and have a 1k CHF voucher for a specific shop. I'm personally ambivalent to whether it prints in colour, but my partner would like the option, and she'll be moving back to freelancing shortly so that's in the spec. Out of those two I would say HP. Just make sure the firmware is up to date, HP publish them every semester or so if the printer is supported.
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Fatrick posted:I need to source a good B&W laser printer for printing label sheets (it needs a manual feed slot) and nothing else. So, no multifunction, just straight printing. Needs USB connectivity. We purchased a fleet of brother QL720NW and dropped using label sheets in a rather similar scenario. The printers have no consumables beside brother QL label rolls, which cost very little when purchased in bulk.
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Thanks Ants posted:Can your label supplier give you the labels on rolls rather than sheets? A thermal transfer printer like a Zebra will do a better job of this. Brady also make printers dedicated to labelling and you can feed things like heatshrink tube into them. Brother has a dedicated program for labeling wires in their less complex PT series https://support.brother.com/g/b/faqend.aspx?c=us&lang=en&prod=p900weus&faqid=faqp00100256_000
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Thanks Ants posted:I think people are just being cautious because you've mentioned reliability. The 2.25x1" labels that you linked are available on a roll (S100X225VATY) and Newark lists them at $600/5000 with the label sheets at $220/1000. In our locale all OKI are rebadged Ricoh anyways, so maybe they stopped importing them to reduce confusion.
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codo27 posted:I loving hate printers. I helped a local business when their printer kept printing this status sheet (https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/printer-constantly-prints-get-esclscannerstatus/fec2a455-8b89-4b06-ba4f-e4f7cc8e0c8d). Turns out its some kinda W11 issue with USB printers. I had set it up on the network though when there in person, but I was trying to remote support today as I'm very comfortable here at home in my pjs. No loving sir could I get that thing to print on the network. After wasting too much time, turns out the printer is using wireless instead of wired. Thankfully I was able to change that from the web panel, though I dont understand why it wouldn't work over wireless when everything was setup right and the PC could see the printer fine. If client isolation is enabled on the wireless network, you are not going to print anything. It's an uncommon setting on consumer kit but far more common on smb and enterprise kit.
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Last time I checked, the brother print and scan app was just a GUI toolbox, not a printer/scanner driver. Did you install the drivers for that model of printer?
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evilmiera posted:Far as I know it's installed and set as default. I even specified and picked out the individual printer when trying to print from his browser. Can you do a screen cap of your browser print panel? If you use edge or chrome you might be stuck in save to pdf mode.
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Fabulousity posted:I think everyone in the thread knows to stay away from consumer HP printers for many reasons today, but HP is busy working on new reasons for tomorrow: I mean, if that fee also includes maintenance and support it's not actually bad. Printer ownership being outsourced is what most people do in business.
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