Hard copies are over-rated
Over the years, I had become complacent. After all, I didn’t need to print, often. And we had (have) more printers than would be considered as practical. When your use is occasional, and fractioned, you don’t realize that, perhaps, things are not working all that well.
With my recent change of the main router, in the house, I decided to update the configuration on my little desktop laser printer. And then, I spent the rest of the afternoon…
Along the way, close to a decade has passed since the printer farm started to grow. And along the way, the various OS manufacturers have moved on. Oh, sure, they claim to support the “old stuff”, but until you seek the required driver for a machine in Win7, a lot of the misery is masked. First of all, the printer is slow. Think of feeding a bird with an eye dropper: just getting the printer to accept a reinstalled driver taxed my patience, heavily.
I’ll not bore you with details, but I can now print from my laptop and my tablet. Nothing requires a hard copy, in my lifespace, but my mission was successful. Maybe I can try and get “in” to one of the other printers, this week. Think COLOUR. And I have plenty of time to pursue this latest interest. Not like when I was in the workplace, and the ability to print meant something. You haven’t felt pressure until you’ve had a senior administrator hovering in the background. Why, their feet don’t touch the floor. And the politeness quotient is something to mention in a blog, a decade later.
