HP printer error messages, "PAPER JAM" & "PC LOAD LETTER"!?
QFT!
Spare a though for us poor Europeans. We don't even have Letter sized paper over here and we still get that Load Letter error. It's a sick conspiracy between HP and Microsoft. Bastards.
Hah! That had never occurred to me that Europeans would still get that and not at least "PC LOAD A4" or something. Just reinforces the Office Space take on it! :biggrin:
Well, the main problem really is every effing app trying to print in letter even though one has explicitly set A4 in every imaginable place.
And yeah, there's also a PC LOAD A4. At my last job, we were doing some security based stuff, and apart from using the network attached printer as an nmap zombie, I changed the 00 READY to say PC LOAD LETTER ;)
I've got a Brother MFC-465CN all-in-one...yes, inkjet.
Wanted it above all else for the non-printer functions. Printer was a bonus. Networkability is nice...I can scan documents across the room (nothing special perhaps, but my last printer was a rather poor inkjet, and before that dot matrix (yeah, really, and that was only 5 years ago).
Speaking of which, dot matrix printers are really great (assuming you've got a good one, even graphics come out alright and ink costs are about as low as is possible for any printer out there). The noise however...
I dislike how the Brother insists on doing cleaning cycles every once in a while regardless of use and depletes its own ink supplies as a result. According to Brother, the laser printers have to do it too... Might save money per page but probably not per cleaning cycle...if you're printing as little as I do inkjet is actually the better choice.
I have a MFC-440CN. Think it's the previous model to the MFC-465CN, but very similar. When I first got it the cleaning cycles were murder on the ink cartridges and I stopped using it for a while. After noticing a firmware upgrade, I dragged it out and things seem tolerable after performing the firmware upgrade. It's a good general purpose printer/scanner/copier/fax. It can be accessed from anywhere in the house via the wireless router (Ethernet bridge) I have it plugged into. Had to load the drivers onto my Windows boxes, Linux had it's own drivers, :smile:
I still like to use my trusty old Canon Bubble-Jet BJ-200ex inkjet from 93. It works plenty better than just about any new printer.
Thanks for the tip, I didn't know I could update the firmware. Just updated mine, we'll see if it improves (the release notes didn't say anything about it though).
Ugh, when I updated the firmware on my Belkin Wireless G router it actually broke something. The power LED, of all things, now turns off after it finishes the boot process (wtf is that?)
Lifetime warranty on that bugger though so if anything ELSE broke I can send it in. Of course Wireless Q will be out by that time anyway.
I'm waiting for new firmware on my Commodore dot matrix line printer. They promised a 2400 baud update back in 1987.
Lifetime warranty on that bugger though so if anything ELSE broke I can send it in. Of course Wireless Q will be out by that time anyway.
Printing pics using inkjets is really burning money.
Well, if the router breaks, isn't that the end of its lifetime? We all love warrantee and tech support.
Of course Wireless Q will be out by that time anyway.
ditto on the WRT 54G... that's a solid router.
Original box and proof of purchase are around so I can wave them in Belkin's face if they give me a hard time.
That reminds me of a roommate I had in college. I kept the packaging to everything. I mean EVERYTHING and he kept it like he was protecting a nest full of eggs. We thought it was some really odd mental illness on his part, but it ends up that he's really just very very very cheap.
An $8 power strip went out on him near the end of the year and he went into his room, produced this sparkling box in perfect shape, put it back in, walked down to the store and convinced them that he got it recently and it had broken.
I'm quite happy with my Brother HL-1440 laser.