{"id":299,"date":"2009-09-29T16:59:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-29T16:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.cottee.org\/2009\/09\/printing\/"},"modified":"2009-09-29T16:59:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-29T16:59:00","slug":"printing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cottee.org\/?p=299","title":{"rendered":">Printing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>><\/p>\n<div xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xhtml'>Why is it so hard to print? I have a bog standard HP Photosmart C4180 here running on an XP machine. It is shared as a windows printer. <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Jaunty works 95% of the time. Sometimes it just stops and wants a restart before coming back to life. <\/li>\n<li>Windows 7. Works about 50% of the time. Sometimes just nothing happens. The Windows 7 machine will sometimes think everything is fine but nothing appears on the XP machine. Sometimes it will just hang. Sometimes it will print. Usually a reboot will help. <\/li>\n<li>Mac OS X Snow Leopard. Had to resort to the CUPS interface (http:\/\/localhost:631) just to get it to see the printer. Now seems to be working. Seems to be. <\/li>\n<li>Son&#8217;s XP machine. Prints around 70% of the time. Same symptoms as the Windows 7 machine when it doesn&#8217;t print. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you want to blame the XP machine, last week it was being driven off a Samba machine instead with the same issues. Everywhere I go I have the same experience. Just walking into our office and hitting the print button and having something print out feels like an extraordinary experience. I have no idea how it feels if you manage it two days in a row. <\/p>\n<div class='zemanta-pixie'><img src='http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/pixy.gif?x-id=ef8ef95c-e768-83bf-9500-4aead1c92b34' alt='' class='zemanta-pixie-img'\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img width='1' height='1' src='https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/9210244490645736884-4831405286567584839?l=blog.cottee.org' alt='' \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>> Why is it so hard to print? I have a bog standard HP Photosmart C4180 here running on an XP machine. It is shared as a windows printer. Jaunty works 95% of the time. Sometimes it just stops and wants a restart before coming back to life. Windows 7. Works about 50% of the time. Sometimes just nothing happens. The Windows 7 machine will sometimes think everything is fine but nothing appears on the XP machine. Sometimes it will&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/cottee.org\/?p=299\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[13,30,31,38,53],"class_list":["post-299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-oldsite","tag-computers","tag-linux","tag-mac","tag-osx","tag-witterings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cottee.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cottee.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cottee.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cottee.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cottee.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cottee.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cottee.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cottee.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cottee.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}