Dominus omus. -- Espi
On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 7:36 PM, Steven M. Caesare <[email protected]>wrote: > A moment of silence to mourn what has become of the company that used to > make the LaserJet4 and my trusty DesignJet550C > > -sc > > -----Original Message----- > From: Ben Scott [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Tuesday, August 16, 2011 10:12 PM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: [OT] The infection continues to spread (HP) > > The suck which has infested HP for the past several years continues to > spread. We just today took a delivery of a brand new DesignJet T790. > $4500 wide-format printer. > > The control panel UI is slow and often doesn't respond to finger > presses. It does, however, have lots of high color graphics and > animations. > > Web UI has two different credential schemes depending on what page > you're on. Some pages want you to leave the username field blank; other > pages want you to use "admin" for the username. > > Won't load paper. Seems like it's not actually trying to feed. > After trying to a bit, it says "Edge of roll not found". Prompts me to > lift the lever and unload paper. I lift the lever. New message: > "Lever unexpectedly lifted". Lather, rinse, repeat. > > Support guidance says load the latest firmware. > > Look for firmware. It's not under "Download drivers and software". > Eventually find it under a howto section. > > 309 MB file! Get download started. > > Since I'm downloading, decide to grab drivers. Check under "Download > drivers and software". Don't see drivers. Mainly just this "HP ePrint > and Share: Easy printing" thing. That claims to be a radical new > technology that lets me print without drivers or software. > To use it, all I have to do is download and install this software. > Umm... > > Eventually find drivers under some other howto page. > > Firmware download finished. It's just a binary blob, no checksum > info, no wrapper like ZIP or anything. I just have to hope for the > best. Takes several minutes to load. Since then the machine's gone > offline and hasn't come back. > > I'm dreading the day the corruption reaches the ProCurve division. > > -- Ben > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ > <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to [email protected] > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to [email protected] > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
