Printers

The HP Printer Display Hack is a simple background application that periodically checks the current price of a selected stock and sends it to the display of HP (and compatible) laser printers. IntroductionThis app is based on an old hack from back to at least 1997 that uses the HP Job control…

One of the most frustrating aspects of setting up a printer is the need to download and install a huge driver file to get the device talking to your PC. I’m not sure just what the printer manufacturers are packing in there, but 100MB+ downloads aren’t the most fun when you simply want to print…

When you buy a new ink cartridge for your printer, have you ever noticed the little envelope in the pack for recycling your old cartridge? Good! Now, do you use them? Even better! If you have a HP printer, that cartridge has joined over 320 million others which have been returned and recycled in…

Alongside the humble router, your printer is probably the least loved tech in your home or workplace. I remember years of frustration setting up printers, working around horrible printer drivers, dealing with paper jams and resetting printer queues. Me and my printer, we were not best of friends.…

You know what’s really annoying? When you go to print out something from the web but the site has no “print” button to reformat the website for the printed page. What you usually end up with (if you’re not careful about configuring the options after doing a thorough “print preview”) is a bunch of…

If you have a home office or small business, you may not have an I.T. guy or gal around that you can call when things go wrong. That’s why the website called fixyourownprinter.com is worth a bookmark. Save it now, because you might need it later! On this site, you’ll find valuable information about…

Seriously cool! Recently, I read about the new Xerox Mobile Express Driver that lets you automatically detect all the available printers in your vicinity - even the ones that are non-Xerox - and then downloads and installs the appropriate drivers automatically. Keep in mind that this software won’t…

3D printing has been around for a while but the prospect of actually having one of these badboys on your desktop were slim to none. The price has always been astronomical. But now, Desktop Factory has created a way to reduce the price and give us all the opportunity to scan and print any 3D…