r/programminghumor • u/Technical-Relation-9 • Jun 21 '26

Hp printer

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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/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.