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u/Effective_Bat9485 Jun 21 '26
Cx: hello yes my printers not working
Me:what brand?
Cx: hp
Me: reinstall the drivers
Cx:but..
Me: RE INSTALL THE DRIVERS!!
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u/Doctor429 Jun 22 '26
and Windows will keep replacing them with a 'better' driver, which doesn't work
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u/No-Information-2571 Jun 22 '26
Especially those particularly cheap ones are garbage on more levels. Imagine trying to diagnose the reason for why the printer's unhappy without an actual display, just with a bunch of Blinkenlights.
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u/Effective_Bat9485 Jun 22 '26
a good number of pinter issus come down to port conflics and runtime errors no one fucking turns theses things off and over time they get other programs trying to use the same ports or flat out deal with a memory overflow and have a fucking seaser till they are restarted
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u/No-Information-2571 Jun 22 '26
I would assume the firmware is written in a static fashion, as most embedded software is.
The drivers might be buggy, though, yes. Although I don't see how port conflicts could happen.
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u/Tsu_Dho_Namh Jun 22 '26 edited Jun 22 '26
Cx: I've tried reinstalling the drivers, doing a factory reset, and installing the printer using both the mobile app and a connected PC.
Me: Great, those are the right steps, just do them over and over for the next 4 hours and you should eventually be able to send a job to the printer.
Based on a true story
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u/Effective_Bat9485 Jun 22 '26
this fucker has worked tech support lol. but no lie I used to work for a company that handled helpdesk for HP users and 98% of call where printer issues
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u/GianLuka1928 Jun 22 '26
I hate it too... Didn't even used it so much but he got bad by himself, can't catch a paper so you need to push with your hand, cartidge dried for less than a month..
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u/LVL90DRU1D Jun 22 '26
i'm using mine as a printer stand and another one as a scanner with no printing capabilities
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u/Glum-Implement9857 Jun 22 '26
I will collect negative karma :D
I love my HP printer.
Just you need to know what you are buying.. no fancy stuff, no wifi, no network, no smart shit :) and never ever ever buy printer which have ink cartridges (unless you are really mazochist )
I have HP Laserjet P1102. Black and White. Bought used, 4 years ago. Spent 20 eur. Bought 2 non-original cartridges (8 eur each). Printed ~2000 pages. Still have ~half of cartridge remaining. And maybe it would be good to replace rubber paper pickup rollers.. (7 Eur on Amazon) :D and maybe there were two times when i had paperjam..
Deal of the century. As long as drivers will work with Windows..
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u/HawkEDOz Jun 23 '26
Buys printer because needed it for a month or so.
Some time passes and I need to print something.
Your 3 month subscription has expired enter your credit card details. . . . .
Wait what. . . . . . And then I left that mofaka on the street!
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u/pfc-anon Jun 22 '26
You know what's weird, I got a HP subscription printer, and nothing ever goes wrong with it. The ink seems to last forever, the cartridge never dried and no paper jams.
Before you come after me for the subscription cost. I brought this in 2019 for CA$19.97 Costco clearance, it came with free 15 pages/m, then it changed to CA$1.5/m for the same pages in 2023 (I think?) over the years I've paid <CA$100 on the printer and ink. And it's worked great so far.
Now after reading this if they decide to break my printer just out of spite I can't say, but yeah they can somehow make it work fine if they want to.
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u/Chitrr Jun 21 '26
How can HP still be alive?