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    From BungleBob@bunglebob@thejungle.com to comp.sys.mac.system on Monday, December 28, 2020 16:22:16
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.system


    Did HP and Apple screw up printing again??

    My HP printer has decided to suddenly stop working again today. This
    time print jobs simply go on hold with a "waiting for printer to become available" message in the print queue window.

    I hard reset the printer, reset the Printer Preferences, deleted and
    re-added the printer, created a new user account, ... nothing worked.
    :o(

    Scanning worked fine, "photocopying" on the printer itself worked fine,
    but printing from the Mac didn't work.

    Finally deleted and reinstalled all the drivers and it is now working
    again (for how long??).

    Could be time to ditch HP and their flakey inkjet printers.

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  • From nospam@nospam@nospam.invalid to comp.sys.mac.system on Sunday, December 27, 2020 22:37:12
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.system

    In article <rsbj15$1asl$1@gioia.aioe.org>, BungleBob
    <bunglebob@thejungle.com> wrote:


    Could be time to ditch HP and their flakey inkjet printers.

    yep
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  • From JF Mezei@jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca to comp.sys.mac.system on Monday, December 28, 2020 00:27:04
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.system

    On 2020-12-27 22:22, BungleBob wrote:

    Did HP and Apple screw up printing again??


    My 25 year old printer recently died. An old DEClaser 5100 (LN09) circa
    1995. Essentially HP hardware, but Digital firmwared with real postscript.
    I created a PPD for it in the 1990s when I got it.

    Replaced it with a Canon Postscript printer. I did not install ANY
    driver for it. I pulled the PPD from Canon'd web site, put in in right
    place and then updated the print queue to ise IPP instead of direct
    printing and used the new PPD. (did similar on my server, but using CUPS
    web interface)

    The beauty of this is that you don't need a printer driver, so your
    printer keeps on working through any/all software updates, and in my
    case moving the server from VMS to OS-X Snow Leopard, desktop from Power
    PC Mac Classic to PowerPC OS-X (G3), to Mac Pro 2009 to Mac Pro 2013.


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  • From Lewis@g.kreme@kreme.dont-email.me to comp.sys.mac.system on Monday, December 28, 2020 18:41:10
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.system

    In message <rsbj15$1asl$1@gioia.aioe.org> BungleBob <bunglebob@thejungle.com> wrote:

    Did HP and Apple screw up printing again??

    HP has been fucking up printing for nearly two decades. The last good HP printer I used was an 4MP, and that was 25 years ago. 600dpi, 4ppm and
    built like a tank. It worked right up through 2010, though I did upgrade
    the RAM on it (to either 8 or maybe 16MB).

    Finally deleted and reinstalled all the drivers and it is now working
    again (for how long??).

    Well, that tells you were the problems were, doesn't it?

    Buy a Brother, they actually support their printers and don't write shit drivers.

    Could be time to ditch HP and their flakey inkjet printers.

    That time has long passed.

    --
    The Piper's calling you to join him
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  • From Steve Carroll@frelwizzen@gmail.com to comp.sys.mac.system on Tuesday, December 29, 2020 03:21:45
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.system

    On Monday, December 28, 2020 at 1:28:26 PM UTC-7, Alan Browne wrote:
    On 2020-12-27 22:22, BungleBob wrote:

    Did HP and Apple screw up printing again??

    My HP printer has decided to suddenly stop working again today. This
    time print jobs simply go on hold with a "waiting for printer to become available" message in the print queue window.

    I hard reset the printer, reset the Printer Preferences, deleted and re-added the printer, created a new user account, ... nothing worked. :o(

    Scanning worked fine, "photocopying" on the printer itself worked fine, but printing from the Mac didn't work.

    Finally deleted and reinstalled all the drivers and it is now working again (for how long??).

    Could be time to ditch HP and their flakey inkjet printers.
    Yes it was time many years ago to ditch hp in all respects.


    --
    "...there are many humorous things in this world; among them the white
    man's notion that he is less savage than the other savages."
    -Samuel Clemens


    After RonB's update I no longer want to gouge out my eyeballs from the
    flicker of the screen. By getting an education from 'social warriors'
    like that you get concepts like 'liberalism'. Carried to its (il)logical resolution, the push that it's 'bigoted' for a hetero male to not wish
    to identify as a dead body is born.

    Seriously, those of you who troll are not able to manage RonB anymore.
    Hint: You won't go into a party, gulp down all the moonshine, bang all
    the dogs, take the souvenirs, and upchuck in the bathroom without being treated with contempt.

    This forum is a septic tank.

    It was Owl who got caught using tons of puppets over and over, and these
    are 'people' who come literally out of the blue immediately into threads
    where he was getting his ass handed to him... by RonB for over a decade.



    --
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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AglvCo3dJ38&feature=youtu.be <https://www.whitepages.com/phone/1-423-491-1448>
    https://youtu.be/hYQ4Tg0r0g0
    Dustin Cook is a fraud
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  • From Steve Carroll@frelwizzen@gmail.com to comp.sys.mac.system on Tuesday, December 29, 2020 10:09:01
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.system

    On Monday, December 28, 2020 at 1:30:19 PM UTC-7, Alan Browne wrote:
    On 2020-12-28 13:41, Lewis wrote:
    In message <rsbj15$1asl$1...@gioia.aioe.org> BungleBob <bung...@thejungle.com> wrote:

    Did HP and Apple screw up printing again??

    HP has been fucking up printing for nearly two decades. The last good HP printer I used was an 4MP, and that was 25 years ago. 600dpi, 4ppm and built like a tank.
    Those things were scattered all through the company I worked at up to
    2000. Simple, reliable, crisp output. Company must have had 100 of
    these things at least.

    Crap co. now.
    --
    "...there are many humorous things in this world; among them the white
    man's notion that he is less savage than the other savages."
    -Samuel Clemens


    He is as incompetent as Graeme 'The Shill' Wall. Graeme 'The Shill' Wall
    can't get anything else to work, either. Graeme 'The Shill' Wall expects people to believe that a poster such as Mr. Brooks who he has regularly declared
    to be a perjurer is someone to 'trust'? How can he assume people are THAT stupid?

    Ending support for JavaScript is needed for progress. Graeme 'The Shill' Wall-like advocates are still talking about the Linux "ecosystem" as if something
    like that even potentially is a goal of the community. HA! Gee, imagine Graeme 'The Shill' Wall trying to pin his nonsense on others, no one has ever seen that before <eyeroll>.

    --
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    Automate Google Groups https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYQ4Tg0r0g0&feature=youtu.be
    <https://youtu.be/xRvaRLlb3b8>
    Dustin Cook the functionally illiterate fraud
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  • From STALKING_TARGET_63@frelwizzen@gmail.com to comp.sys.mac.system on Tuesday, December 29, 2020 19:25:36
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.system

    On Monday, December 28, 2020 at 1:28:26 PM UTC-7, Alan Browne wrote:
    On 2020-12-27 22:22, BungleBob wrote:

    Did HP and Apple screw up printing again??

    My HP printer has decided to suddenly stop working again today. This
    time print jobs simply go on hold with a "waiting for printer to become available" message in the print queue window.

    I hard reset the printer, reset the Printer Preferences, deleted and re-added the printer, created a new user account, ... nothing worked. :o(

    Scanning worked fine, "photocopying" on the printer itself worked fine, but printing from the Mac didn't work.

    Finally deleted and reinstalled all the drivers and it is now working again (for how long??).

    Could be time to ditch HP and their flakey inkjet printers.
    Yes it was time many years ago to ditch hp in all respects.


    --
    "...there are many humorous things in this world; among them the white
    man's notion that he is less savage than the other savages."
    -Samuel Clemens


    Why does Graham J focus on Gremlin's ego so much?

    If Graham J calls getting shoved into kill filters left and right for
    years on end by Gremlin and me (and completely trashing his name and any reason for me to believe anything he has to say - for the rest of time) 'trolling', then yeah... he is a good troll. I can't accept that view,
    I use another term. I call that person a complete lamer. You never take
    blame for your own words. Quotes that are easily quoted and pointed out.

    --
    What Every Entrepreneur Must Know!
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4xD43Khhkw <http://web.archive.org/web/20200909135108/https://www.truepeoplesearch.com/details?name=dustin+james+cook&citystatezip=Kingston%2C+TN&rid=0xl&Diesel=&Gremlin=&Raid=>
    <https://youtu.be/xRvaRLlb3b8>
    Dustin Cook: Functionally Illiterate Fraud
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