I second the recommendation for a Brother printer. I had HP printers for years, so I resisted changing brands, but recently (maybe about 2 years ago) I bought a Brother printer and it has been no problem at all.
> On Feb 9, 2017, at 12:35 PM, @lbutlr <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Feb 8, 2017, at 1:08 AM, Macs R We <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Here's a puzzler. >> >> I have a client who purchased a problematic Epson > > Isn’t that redundant? > >> the client's Mac was reporting that the printer was unavailable. > > Right. If it’s not responding it’s unavailable. > >> I browsed pretty much the entire suite of configuration pages, and found >> nothing bizarre or unexpected. Yet later on that day, the printer went >> deaf, dumb, and blind again. > > Sounds about right. > >> The new printer behaves exactly the same way the first one did. > > Not surprising. > >> This client has run WiFi printers before on this exact network without this >> problem. > > The problem is not the Wifi. The problem is not even the printer hardware, > probably. The problem is Epson writes shitty software. > >> Does anybody have any provocative ideas? > > I’ve had a Brother WiFI printer for … 2 years? It’s never once gone offline. > My previous printer was another Brother Wifi printer, but it was connected to > my computers via HandyPrint. That one did go offline on occasions (every few > months), but resting HandyPrint would fix it. We had that printer for 5 years > or so. > > The only thing that I could suggest is to see if Epson has some newer > drivers, however be aware that the last time I dealt with an Epson printer it > came with a shocking pile of crapware. _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
