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[Bill]

Originally Posted by Louie Detroit

Still not sure what message you are trying to convey, but OK.

Thread needs to be moved to PR&C......Printers, Religion and Computers.

[cptlo306]

Maybe the problem is the operator.

Use this document to find out how to enable printing for the HP Color LaserJet 3500, 3550, and 3600 Printers in Windows 10 or Windows 8.1/8.
https://support.hp.com/us-en/document/c03515691

[MadInNc]

Originally Posted by Cool 50th AE

I restrained myself tonight, but I posted them at the other place a while back for the ones I did lose my temper with.


Found one of them:

We could have had a party!!! Everybody bring old printers to Kewl’s joint, BBQ and booze then….

[Bruze]

Originally Posted by MadInNc

We could have had a party!!! Everybody bring old printers to Kewl’s joint, BBQ and booze then….

No cheap whores with Fiddy picking up the bill????

[Bruze]

Originally Posted by Torqaholic

A printer came included with my first Pentium computer. Supplies to keep it operating were reasonable. By the time I replaced that P90 printers were optional accessories. A quick look at the cost of ink for those left me in disbelief. Have never owned another printer.

Typical drug dealer M.O. First sample is free, if you return for more be prepared to give them every penny you have.

I bought my first PC, an "IBM clone," in 1992. The box, a 5,000-pound monitor, keyboard, and mouse was $2,000.

At some point later that year I bought a pin printer; it was, as I recall, $200. I don't think there was any other type available. It would only print B&W text, no images, but it worked great, no issues with it.

[Bruze]

Originally Posted by Cool 50th AE

I restrained myself tonight, but I posted them at the other place a while back for the ones I did lose my temper with.


Found one of them:

The proper way to dispose of them, you know, is with a 12 gauge.

[73sbVert]

I've got a Brother color laser that's given me very little trouble. A couple of times, it lost connection with the computer, but easily enough resolved.

Works great, and the toner cartridges last a pretty long time!

HL-4570CDW:

[Mike Mercury]

[Bruze]

Originally Posted by Mike Mercury

Good stuff, cuz there's truth in it.

[Wathen1955]

The other option would be to install an older version of Windows as a virtual machine, then print from that. Yeah it would not be ideal, but at least you will still be able to use the printer until it actually dies.

[2manycars]

I used to be certified to do warrenty service on HP printers, including color laserjets. Been a long time since I've done it now though. HP laser printers are made by Canon. HP only makes the 'personality' board that's in it.

I feel your frustration. Dealing with driver and setup issues can be a real headache. Sometimes you have to go in via control panel and delete the unit, and then let it reinstall. I used to get through it that way quite a bit.

[Frankie the Fink]

Originally Posted by Louie Detroit

Why do software writers need to be licensed? I thought you were a conservative dude Yaddy?

I've written 100's of 1,000s of lines of code without a license and now I've come clean. I'll sit right here and wait for the Mar-A-Lago SWAT-style raid.

Its unreasonable to expect developers to provide backward compatibility for old, possibly discontinued peripherals in perpetuity.

There are ways around it (by running a Linux environment emulator - but the setup takes some techie neurons) by trying out the "incompatible drover" method 1/3 of the way down this web page:

https://www.windowscentral.com/how-i...ter-windows-10

[Jughead]

[LATB]

Originally Posted by Cool 50th AE

Printer version:

I have lost my patience and smashed numerous new pieces of shit printers to smithereens because it taunted me with factory built-in non-working "**** you" settings.

Originally Posted by Cool 50th AE

I restrained myself tonight, but I posted them at the other place a while back for the ones I did lose my temper with.


Found one of them:

This ^^^ is not a "smashed to smithereens"...that is taken apart.

Originally Posted by Jughead

This ^^^ is how you smash to smithereens.

[Dan47]

Originally Posted by Cool 50th AE

Printer version:

I have lost my patience and smashed numerous new pieces of shit printers to smithereens because it taunted me with factory built-in non-working "**** you" settings.

I own a 22-year-old HP commercial laser printer that still worked flawlessly.
The toner cartridges lasted what seemed like forever and it would blast out pages faster than shit through a goose. Even full color photo pictures would print in just seconds.

But HP stopped drivers for it to work with any newer operating system rendering a completely functional printer a brick.

They don’t want a printer to actually work cheaply and efficiently, forcing everyone to buy the new printers that don’t work and cost more per copy than what the Staples store charges for a copy.


The workhorse that is now just a decoration:

I get it.

Same with having a working internet connection. My business has become completely dependent on both since 2000 AD.

[NoOne]

Originally Posted by Cool 50th AE

Printer version:

I have lost my patience and smashed numerous new pieces of shit printers to smithereens because it taunted me with factory built-in non-working "**** you" settings.

I own a 22-year-old HP commercial laser printer that still worked flawlessly.
The toner cartridges lasted what seemed like forever and it would blast out pages faster than shit through a goose. Even full color photo pictures would print in just seconds.

But HP stopped drivers for it to work with any newer operating system rendering a completely functional printer a brick.

They don’t want a printer to actually work cheaply and efficiently, forcing everyone to buy the new printers that don’t work and cost more per copy than what the Staples store charges for a copy.


The workhorse that is now just a decoration:

You can use any driver that supports PCL 3/4 given its age.

95 percent of the drivers are the same for a given brand, the 5 percent is feature differences. If you just want it to print, that'll work.

I think there is even a genertic PCL3/4 driver, or if yours has Postcript you can use PS driver.

[NoOne]

Never mind....your ****ed.

That is one of those 'host based printers' that they used to cut down on costs by offloading all the rendering to the computer.

[slewfoot]

[MY03C5Z]

Originally Posted by MadInNc

We could have had a party!!! Everybody bring old printers to Kewl’s joint, BBQ and booze then….

This was the only solution that comes to mind for me given the op’s situation. lol.

[Mick]

Originally Posted by Cool 50th AE

I restrained myself tonight, but I posted them at the other place a while back for the ones I did lose my temper with.


Found one of them:

I've heard tale that if you are at your house, bashing up your own shit, it's probably a good idea to quit drinking.

Originally Posted by Bruze

No cheap whores with Fiddy picking up the bill????

No cheap whores, but I'll bet Kewl has some leads on some inexpensive lawyers.