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by Alleluja 4085 days ago
My Dad got himself a brand new laptop (i7, 8gb ram, ssd, etc). And a brand new printer HP OfficeJet (big black shiny machine with all the bells and whistles).

He couldn't print his stuff for work. He called me up. After over an hour I gave up. Windows 8 couldn't figure out which drivers to use. The CDs attached with printer didn't help too. I mean the installation went smoothly, but then nothing was printed. Check your cables, etc. messages like we are still in 1996.

I don't have time for this BS. Drove back home, got my macbook pro. Came back to my Dad's home and did THIS: 1. connect printer to the mac 2. driver installs after clicking 'OK' or 'install', dont even remember at this point 3. print

that's it! Welcome back to 2015!
1 comments
atomicfiredoll 4085 days ago
And on our network the Windows PC prints fine, but the Macs have no idea what's going on.

TL;DR: Printers still suck.

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72deluxe 4084 days ago
If only there was some sort of Printer Command Language that would negate the need for these issues.....?

Or perhaps some form of scripting language that you could post, perhaps they could even call it PostScript?

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