On Tue, 17 Dec 2019 15:07:49 -0800 (PST), Jeff Urban
wrote:

Have an HP CM1312nfi MFP. Had a nice old XP box that was the print
server, Got a Vista box and a 7, there are 8 and 10 boxes in the
house ad I would like to be able to print from any of them.

One disadvantage was that the XP box had to be to print. I tried to
get the thing to boot itself after a power outage but had some
problems with that, but it worked fine otherwise. The OS was slightly
damaged but it was fine, I just could never get rid of the password
box at boot even though there was no password set. By the way I do
not care about security, all my stuff stays sighed in to everything.
So someone could read my email, so can the government and I would
even less want them able to. No kids, and people here are not nosy.
Noone is here alone except us, ever.


Anyway I decided to plug the printer into the network directly. The
disk I got with the printer doesn't cover anything past XP but the
Vista box worked automatically. I left two PC groups because they
don't like anything that is not brand new. the last straw was when
one said "Printer that is only worth $250". Yeah, how much is YOUR
printer worth ? If it is an inkjet you would ave to pay me to take
it. So the Vista box lacks an optical drive, Windows lost it when I
installed the second HD. there is to much on it now to remove it, for
example this browser...

So I go to download the drivers. I got them for 7, 8 and Vista. They
come right from HP. They are around 100MB so they are not like an
internet assisted install. (the ones that are only a few KB and
download as they go along)

In all cases the install starts and just stops. It does not lock up he
PC, but I mean one time we tried we went shopping and like 2 hours
later it still was sitting there.

The one common denominator I see here is HP, but I find it hard to
elieve they were trying to force end of life on these things. If they
anted that they would just say "Not Supported".

I might put together another XP box because I got all kinds of
oftware. But still I would rather have the printer on the network.


Anybody got any idea of what the hell is going on here ? I am not
throwing out this printer.

I have a Ricoh Monochrome network laser printer.
I couldn't find a driver for Mac OSX 10.7 so I cobbled one together.
It doesn't have all the custom settings but it works.