Drivesaitl
Finding Hemingway
I bought a new Canon printer as well last week (I'm an idiot) but I did so because I had left over unused ink cartridges for the last printer so I specifically bought one that uses the same cartridges. I mean I wanted to buy the same cheap manual USB plug in printer I had I didn't want or need wifi printer. But this is all they have now. So its sitting in the box while I dread the setup process which decades into experiences with computers etc, I know won't work until I've spilt blood and sweat and cursed at the damn things and threatened the hammer fix..
The last printer doesn't work because it had a fatal paper jam. The type where no matter how many parts of the printer you open up to get at the jam you can't. Inevitably you end up tugging on the paper jam too hard and the rollers are then not aligned and it'll never feed or print another document again. The printer btw did this to itself trying to feed 5 pages into the printer at once even though everything was setup properly, nothing was wrong with the paper etc..
So I'm observing all this with baited breath and I really understand the feelings @Bryanbryoil . It doesn't matter what the instructions say or won't say. It won't work the way its supposed to, won't connect the way its supposed to and pretty much that neither your computer or the printer will recognize each other even one foot apart. It won't autodetect. But try powering things on and off anyway and shutting down computer and restarting anyway while printer is turned on. Sometimes that will work. Sometimes throwing the printer off a cliff works.
Knowing what I'm like theres no way I was going to even attempt to setup this printer while it was 40C outside. Blood boiling already. Wife says stuff like you got it done yet, what can be so hard. Just take it out of the box and plug it in... I should let her do it..It would never run. The way I'm looking at it the paper jam was months ago and what do I need to print anyway. Its like a dishwasher that won't run. f*** it, I don't need a dishwasher.
The last printer doesn't work because it had a fatal paper jam. The type where no matter how many parts of the printer you open up to get at the jam you can't. Inevitably you end up tugging on the paper jam too hard and the rollers are then not aligned and it'll never feed or print another document again. The printer btw did this to itself trying to feed 5 pages into the printer at once even though everything was setup properly, nothing was wrong with the paper etc..
So I'm observing all this with baited breath and I really understand the feelings @Bryanbryoil . It doesn't matter what the instructions say or won't say. It won't work the way its supposed to, won't connect the way its supposed to and pretty much that neither your computer or the printer will recognize each other even one foot apart. It won't autodetect. But try powering things on and off anyway and shutting down computer and restarting anyway while printer is turned on. Sometimes that will work. Sometimes throwing the printer off a cliff works.
Knowing what I'm like theres no way I was going to even attempt to setup this printer while it was 40C outside. Blood boiling already. Wife says stuff like you got it done yet, what can be so hard. Just take it out of the box and plug it in... I should let her do it..It would never run. The way I'm looking at it the paper jam was months ago and what do I need to print anyway. Its like a dishwasher that won't run. f*** it, I don't need a dishwasher.
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