{"id":397,"date":"2008-09-20T12:44:46","date_gmt":"2008-09-20T16:44:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/?p=397"},"modified":"2008-09-20T12:44:46","modified_gmt":"2008-09-20T16:44:46","slug":"time-for-a-new-printer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2008\/09\/20\/time-for-a-new-printer\/","title":{"rendered":"Time For A New Printer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><\/p>\n<table cellpadding=1>\n<tr>\n<td bgcolor=\"black\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/gallery\/v\/computers\/random_computer_stuff\/IMG_2466.jpg.html?g2_imageViewsIndex=2\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/gallery\/d\/76609-2\/IMG_2466.jpg\" height=427 width=640 border=0 alt=\"Old parallel port printer cable connecting into the back of my work laptop, a Dell D610.\"><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I guess I really need a new printer. After almost a year of limping along with a failing HP LaserJet 5L at home I&#8217;m finding I can&#8217;t even convince it to print any more. Today I was able to get it to print a test page while manually guiding the paper deep into the feed mechanism, but then I was unable to print properly from either my Mac or work laptop via lpr (to the JetDirect), or straight from my work laptop via parallel port.<\/p>\n<p>Two pages bearing print did leave the printer eventually when connected via parallel port,  but only half of the PDF which I needed to print (a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cycle-clothing.co.uk\/productclass.asp?productclassid=126\">free admission ticket to Addison Oaks for riding the mountain bike trails<\/a>) was actually render correctly. Oh well. I guess it&#8217;s time to go to Kinkos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I guess I really need a new printer. After almost a year of limping along with a failing HP LaserJet 5L at home I&#8217;m finding&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2008\/09\/20\/time-for-a-new-printer\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Time For A New Printer<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers","category-cycling","entry"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=397"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":398,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397\/revisions\/398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}