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What's a company secret you can share now that you no longer work there? (lemmy.world)
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[–] 15 points 3 years ago (11 children)

Who is using an Ethernet printer in 2024?

Wifi bby

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  • [–] 33 points 3 years ago (9 children)

    People who value their sanity. WiFi is unreliable.

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  • [–] 15 points 3 years ago (5 children)

    Yeah, wireless printers can eat my refuse. I just spent a fruitless hour fixing my neighbours printer. Their crime? Restarting the router spooked the printer connection to the network. Shit system integration and poor documentation make this job needlessly painful.

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  • [–] 9 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    I have a wireless Canon. Has worked flawlessly for years. Never had any issues. Replace the ink every now and again and it keeps chugging.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago

    I believe you. We can make wireless stuff work if we really want to. My Bluetooth headset links with the phone perfectly every time. Attempt the same trick with Teams on a PC, forget about it. Wifi generally seems quite solid these days but if I get a choice I will use ethernet. It would have to be really bad to warrant going back to wired headphones but with a printer, meh. I don't walk around my house with it and run a few copies from the kitchen.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago

    If anybody has issues with your printers wireless connection constantly dropping. Try setting a static IP address for the printers wifi connection. I've fixed 3 wireless printers by doing this. My wife's work bought her a new wireless laser printer 2 years ago. Thing would lose its ip address every time it went into sleep mode, and it would only reacquire an IP address about half the time. Changed it to a static IP address, and now it always just works.

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