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Share a Windows 10 printer by UNC

Dave Farquhar — Fri, 06 May 2016 11:00:13 +0000

Windows 10 uses homegroups, but if you have systems that don’t understand homegroups and want to share a Windows 10 printer by UNC (the old school way to share a network printer), it’s not obvious how to go about doing it.

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How to add a generic printer in Windows 10

Dave Farquhar — Wed, 25 Nov 2015 11:00:14 +0000

Sometimes you need to add a generic printer in Windows 10. Windows 10 makes the setup of newer hardware pretty automatic, but if you have a legacy or specialized printer that has to be set up as a generic printer

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Network printers with mismatched Windows versions

Dave Farquhar — Thu, 29 Jan 2015 11:00:24 +0000

Jim, one of the longest-running of my longtime readers, wrote in last week about his experiences getting a venerable HP Laserjet 1100 working between two dissimilar Windows machines. Network printers with mismatched Windows versions always present a challenge. Not only

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Add a TCP/IP printer in Windows 10

Dave Farquhar — Tue, 27 Jan 2015 11:00:45 +0000

Sometimes you have to manually add a TCP/IP printer in Windows 10. For example, I have an older HP Laserjet 4100 with a Jetdirect network card in it that I use to print from all of my PCs over my local

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Gene Kim on scheduled maintenance

Dave Farquhar — Tue, 31 Dec 2013 11:00:09 +0000

The excellent book The Phoenix Project has a choice quote that stuck with me. In this scenario, the Yoda-like character asks the hero to imagine a company that makes deliveries. If the trucks break down, the deliveries stop, right? So

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Cable connections are the last thing most people check…

Dave Farquhar — Sun, 04 Nov 2012 11:33:10 +0000

Fed up with trying to host a network printer on a Windows 7 box on a mixed network, I broke down and bought a Jetdirect card for my aged HP Laserjet 4100. Don’t worry–used Jetdirect cards are cheap these days.

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Expect your HP printer to get 0wnz0r3d shortly

Dave Farquhar — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 11:00:19 +0000

Courtesy of Dan Bowman: You may have seen the brief writeup on Slashdot about how to set printers on fire by messing with the fuser, but in Germany next month there’s going to be a security engineer’s nightmare unleashed, courtesy

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How I fixed an infuriating printer problem

Dave Farquhar — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 02:21:20 +0000

Windows 7 and my HP Laserjet 4100 weren’t getting along. And I was pretty livid about it. I paid $125 for my Windows 7 upgrade, and for that money, I got to mess around for 4 days trying to get

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Contingency. Or how I escaped from Windows 0.7

Dave Farquhar — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 04:55:19 +0000

I thought I traced my Windows 0.7 printing problem to the presence of a USB bluetooth adapter, but it turned out that was wrong. My wife called about mid-day to say the machine wasn’t printing anymore. Fortunately, I’d never gotten

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Buy a used business printer and save a bundle

Dave Farquhar — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 00:55:43 +0000

I'm through with cheap consumer printers.

Due to the nature of my wife's work, we print a lot by home standards. We buy paper by the case, not the ream, and a case of paper probably lasts us a little more than six months.

Our workload just isn't practical for the kind of printers you find next to the telephones at consumer electronics stores. So I bought an HP Laserjet 4100. And even if a case of paper lasts you a couple of years, you might want to buy an office-grade printer too.

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