I also try to not connect home printers via USB when I’m sharing them, rather I look to see if they have a network jack and connect them via a rj45 cable to my home router. A plain laser jet printer of the Lexmark or Brother variety tends to not give you grief when remote printing unlike a USB connected all in one. In the small business industry there are certain models of printers that work nicer with working from home and remote printing. So then the printer manufacturers realized two things – thing one selling printer cartridges was a good business to be in and thing two – if they made a printer that was indestructible we’d never buy another printer again. ![]() I finally had to get rid of it when plastic parts would break off but I must have had that printer for 15 years or more? The next version of that printer for home users, the HP Laserjet 4L would just run and run and run. Once upon a time I had an HP laserjet 4 printer that would run and run and run. overbearing, and nearly evil in their ways to hook us into their ink and cartridge programs. So we get told to buy a new printer to make our lives easier and then the printer manufacturers get downright … well how can we say this nicely…. ![]() Meanwhile every month we keep hitting printer issues ( for some printers, not all) triggered by Microsoft updates. We are supposedly in a paperless business world. Posted on October 19th, 2021 at 14:53 Susan Bradley Comment on the AskWoody Lounge
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