That Brother laser printer you bought can also pretend it's a plotter
https://scruss.com/blog/2025/04/09/plotter-stuff-on-that-brother-printer/
Again, if you're a consumer or a small business, I would not buy any #printer from this point forward as I have said for years now. There's no benefit.
On the Brother printer "heel turn" report:
To be real, they have been anti consumer for years now so this is nothing new.
From 2022:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31860131
cc @pluralistic
I am selling a photographic #printer with #scanner on @fedimercatino @mercatino!
#Canon #photography #FediMercatino
https://fedimercatino.it/~tommi/d88ed034-d43e-4bb8-a3a5-ab1bfed2e8eb
All printers are 4-D printers, if you think about it.
I've encountered another issue with my new #Printronix #LP654C #printer, so severe that if they can't fix it I'm going to demand that they take back the printer and refund my money…
Twice in the short time I've had it, it has spontaneously disconnected from the WiFi network, failed to reconnect automatically, and failed to reconnect when I told it to do so from the control panel.
This is ridiculous. A printer which can't handle the simple task of staying on the network is grossly defective.
I emailed #Printronix support today to ask 5 questions about my new #LP654C #printer. I received a response which literally did not answer a single question. The response was clearly indicative of the Dunning-Kruger Effect: the responding tech clearly did not understand my questions but didn't know that, so he just sent me bullshit, nonresponsive answers.
I wrote back and asked him to escalate my questions to someone else. "I paid $1,400 for this printer, I expect better support than this."
#Printronix provides a "Monitoring Tool" for macOS and Windows which, among other things, can be used to monitor their web site for firmware updates for their #LP654C #printer and install them when they are available. There appears to be no documented, supported way to check for or install firmware updates from Linux.
Unlike most printers, which have "media type" and "media weight" as a single setting (i.e., when you specify the media type that indicates the weight as well), the #Printronix #LP654C #printer has separate settings for media type and weight. If you don't set the weight properly, the printer doesn't adhere to the page properly and you get big blotches and/or toner scattered all over the page. Separating the two settings is IMO a terrible design.
OK, my #Printronix LP654C #Printer is set up. First impressions:
1/ It prints fine so far.
2/ It seems like a very solid printer.
3/ The toner cartridges are relatively small. Unlike my old HP printer which attached a separate little drum to every toner cartridge, the Printronix cartridges only have… toner in them. The drum is a separate consumable. I believe this also means lower per-page cost for this printer.
4/ The admin UIs for this printer are terrible.
Does anyone else have an HP 9129e inkjet printer and are having trouble with it going offline often after idle? We had this issue for months earlier this year with our 9020e, but I thought I fixed it. I saw a firmware update hit recently, and thought it might be related.
We are all in on the Apple ecosystem, if that matters.
Thinking of the two #NaNoWriMo projects I've done on #Commodore64 (first in 2017, second this year). I'm hoping I could actually print out the manuscripts from those years using some emulated approximation of MPS-801. (Just, you know, using my laser printer instead, because fuck me if I ever touch a ribbon #printer or worse yet an inkjet, am I right?) Then, make hand revisions and notes etc, and for some subsequent NaNo, actually write a new draft using C64 again!
3/2
The one issue I was able to figure out with this #lenovo #T430s was printing on #windoz11
With my #HP #laserjet using #jetdirect cards with an local #IP address have worked fine over the years (and the cheap toner cartridges make it all the better)
But when installing 11, adding and using printers over the #network is nothing but frustration. The #printer would not add/configured, or if it did get added then test prints would sit in the print queue and fail. I could ping the printer, but there was no visible communication with it.
Searching at length, I fumbled across this post
Windows 11 22H2: network printing switched to RPC over TCP
https://www.ghacks.net/2022/11/02/windows-11-22h2-network-printing-switched-to-rcp-over-tcp/
So Microsoft changed the default print related communications for endpoints in #Windows 11 version #22H2 Endpoints now use #RPC over #TCP instead of over Named Pipes.
If you are in this situation, there are some registry edits that can be made manually via #powershell or via #grouppolicy that are documented in that linked article.
I made the edits on the #T430s and am now able to print to my #4050TN Now, for some reason my #ThinkPadP1 is still having issues with printing after the #registry tweaks, with test jobs still sticking in the queue. More #troubleshooting is needed, or I may just #wipe & #reinstall
#vintagecomputing
#vintagecomputing #vintagecomputint #vintagecomputer #vintagecomputers #vintagecomputalk
#vintagehardware
#computerHistory
#retro
#retrocomputing #retroComputers
#WallOfRetro
#retroTech #retroTechnology
#nerdsOfVintage #happyNerding
#computer #tech
#nerds #nerd
#Lenovo #thinkpad #laptop #laptop_computer
NERDS!
Can I use laminating film in a thermal printer to laminate thermal paper?
I don’t have either yet, but I bought a got thermal printer for printing my course forms without further HP-inflicted mental rate abscesses.
I was looking at paper so I’d be ready to print my coursework for next class and the ebay ads confused me for a second.
… also I want to print stickers. For morale!
Bambulab A1 Mini - Soporte AMS Lite extendido y en Vertical
Viendo que el soporte para los carretes de filamento me ocupaba más espacio que la propia impresora he buscado la forma de ponerla en vertical.
He tenido que soldar un cable de aprox. 1,3m y acoplar tubos guías con soporte personalizado adaptado a la estantería que lo sostiene en vertical.
Aquí explico un poco el proceso:
Does anyone know if the
Brother HL-L2400DW A4
or
Brother HL-L2445DW A4
printer works out of the box with linux (Debian)?
(I would rather not install drivers from outside the Debian repo).
Ok, I’ll have to check if I buy another round of parts for my #brother DCP-9020CDW #printer or if I buy a new machine. I’m using double sided printing and the document feeder for scanning to a SMB share very often. The touch screen makes this task easy and doesn't require a computer, so it's a must I've got to keep.
Are there any recommendations except buying Brother? While it lasted almost 10 years I've had often Problems with the fixing unit (maybe changed that part 4 times already?). And now its complaining about the drum kit, after only 13.000 pages (with a life span of 60.000).
Color isn't necessary, as the quality was never that good. A small compact machine would be great though. Any ideas/recommendations? #fedihelp #printers
"Getting my daily #news from a dot matrix #printer
https://aschmelyun.com/blog/getting-my-daily-news-from-a-dot-matrix-printer/
CUPS Flaws enable Linux Remote Code Execution.
CUPS is an open-source printing system based on the Internet Printing Protocol (IPP). While present on many Linux, BSD and other systems. The exploited for remote command execution on vulnerable systems, they could offer more opportunity to attackers who engage in DDoS attacks.
https://www.akamai.com/blog/security-research/2024/oct/october-cups-ddos-threat
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Commands added using the foomatic-rip filter.
This causes the remote machine to automatically install the malicious printer and make it available for printing. If the user on that exposed server prints to the new printer, the malicious command in the PPD will be executed locally on the computer.
The command to execute when printing is added through a foomatic-rip filter, which executes commands on a device so that a print job is rendered correctly.](https://nerdculture.de/system/media_attachments/files/113/249/242/866/211/102/original/6c315a359afe6fe8.png "[ImageSource: Akamai]
Commands added using the foomatic-rip filter.
This causes the remote machine to automatically install the malicious printer and make it available for printing. If the user on that exposed server prints to the new printer, the malicious command in the PPD will be executed locally on the computer.
The command to execute when printing is added through a foomatic-rip filter, which executes commands on a device so that a print job is rendered correctly.")
![[ImageSource: Akamai]
The reported vulnerabilities may be exploited to turn vulnerable systems into “amplifiers” by sending a specially crafted UDP packet to a vulnerable instance of CUPS.
Instead of instructing CUPS to add a malicious printer, the packet instructs it to send an IPP/HTTP request to the target and port specified by the attacker.](https://nerdculture.de/system/media_attachments/files/113/249/242/925/498/536/original/c621c5fc31495426.jpeg "[ImageSource: Akamai]
The reported vulnerabilities may be exploited to turn vulnerable systems into “amplifiers” by sending a specially crafted UDP packet to a vulnerable instance of CUPS.
Instead of instructing CUPS to add a malicious printer, the packet instructs it to send an IPP/HTTP request to the target and port specified by the attacker.")
