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#printers

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Jonathan Kamens

This is hopefully the final update in the saga of my attempting to buy a good printer from #Printronix and instead getting an expensive but crappy printer…
My credit card company just ruled in my favor on the credit dispute I filed after Printronix refused to reimbuse me for the shipping cost of the printer.
So I am financially "whole" from the experience; my only loss is all the time I wasted trying to get their crappy printer to work.
#printers

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europlus :autisminf:

One more CUPS question - the Print to PDF queue, which is based on an ippeveprinter created at startup, puts the queue job number at the start of the output pdf, so I get something like

1-filename.pdf
2-someotherfilename.pdf
etc.

Anyone know where I need to change that to leave the job number off?

I’m off to try more google searches (wish me luck!), but thought I’d ask here as I’ve not found anything yet.

Thanks!

#Printers#CUPS
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europlus :autisminf:

Any CUPS experts here? I want to inject some PostScript near the start of all jobs which come through a certain queue.

The prefilter stuff I found looks like it’s for an earlier version.

It’s an ippeveprinter ”print to PDF” printer, but some jobs need an additional set of PS procedures defined which are being sent as a separate print job. Those procedures never change, so I want to just add them in at the start.

#Printers#CUPS
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PierreNick :apple_old_logo: 💾

Community, DIY, open hardware and software has been part of the commodity #3Dprinting world for over 20 years (#RepRap et al.). Open projects, with parts you can source yourself or via kits (e.g. #Voron).

What if—what IF!
We did the same for plain old #2Dprinting..? I’d build a 2D laser printer from a kit.

(To be fair, I found a few resources and it seems like a daunting talk: lots of moving parts, optics, etc. 3D printers almost feel simpler, they’re just robots that push out hot plastic.)

“Firmware update bricks HP printers”
(and toner/ink DRM, etc.)

#printers #enshitification

arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/0

Ars Technica · Firmware update bricks HP printers, makes them unable to use HP cartridgesBy Scharon Harding
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ts 🚉

In your experience, how well do laser printers handle b/w images? As well as inkjet or LED? It does seem like printers in general continue to be garbage - embarrssing in the year 2025 - but then I've taken a tangent.... I wonder about b/w photos.

#LED#office#printer
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Jonathan Kamens

Update on my #Printronix saga…
Two weeks after the returned printer was delivered to Printronix, they finally refunded most of my money, but they refused to refund the original shipping charge.
I emailed them and explained that would have been fine if my return had been over personal preference, but the printer was defective and they lied to me about its capabilities before I bought it.
They ignored the email, so yesterday I filed a dispute with my credit card over the shipping charge.
#printers

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ahimsa

@researchbuzz @ai6yr

I like this advice:

"if you're worried about security updates, or it getting messed up as a result of it, don't put the thing on the fucking internet

your printer doesn't need to be on the internet

you can put it on your local network and you can block it from ever connecting to the internet so you don't have to worry about security issues ..."

#Printers#Hardware
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