[BC] My troublesome HP Officejet 7000

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I currently have three HP printers on my home network, one Cannon, and  
one Epson.  Well, the Epson comes and goes.

I just take the HP printers out of the box, hook them up to the  
network, and away they go.  My 4P took a bit longer.  It was  
originally connected using a Centronix parallel cable.  I bought a  
used network card and I couldn't get it to work.  It only took about  
20 minutes to determine I couldn't make it work.  I asked a friend for  
help, and he just gave me a network card.  It worked as soon as it was  
installed.

The biggest problem computer was a "free" Cannon three-in-one, that I  
accepted mostly for its flat bed scanner which is much better than the  
Cannon '80 scanner I was using.  It requires drivers, and a set-up  
procedure, which is ponderous but easy.  I suppose that must be  
because it is both a scanner and printer, but uses only one USB port,  
but I don't know.

My point is, I would no more expect Mack OS 8 to work flawlessly than  
Windoz 2000.  Time, and software, march on.

I am glad you got it working, and also sorry it took so long.  I doubt  
I would have worked on it so long and just would have upgraded the OS  
on the machines.

--chip

On Feb 25, 2010, at 7:11 PM, broadcast-request at radiolists.net wrote:

> Message: 7
> From: Jeff Glass <Xmitters at aol.com>
>
> In a message dated 2/25/2010 8:08:49 AM Central Standard Time, broadcast-request at radiolists.net 
>  writes:
> [...]
>> I don't think you have a printer problem, but an OS problem.
>> Why not try moving to XP on one of the problem machines?
>
> Chip,
>
> I am forced to leave some things out when I post here, to avoid  
> writing a Doctor's Thesis about the particular topic at hand.
>
> If you are OK with pissing your time away for three days,
> [...]
> Chip, maybe this is the kind of thing that you enjoy solving. And  
> that's great if you are.
>
> Jeff Glass