• frog 🐸@beehaw.org
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    11 months ago

    I have a Brother laser printer. It regularly goes into such a deep sleep that no force on this Earth can wake it up when it’s time to print, because it’s too deeply unconscious to respond to “wake up” signals from computers. It cannot print without first being brought out of its coma by a troubleshooting software.

    So I’m not going to put that in the category of printers that just prints every time like it’s supposed to without issue.

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      Huh, that’s strange. Does pressing the power button not work? Are you using wifi or Ethernet?

      I think there’s a way to disable the deep sleep mode.

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        Nope, pressing the power button doesn’t work, and I’ve tried it on both wi-fi and ethernet, with the same problem either way. I am pretty much resigned to the fact that I do not get along with printers.

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          Strange. You could try go to its web UI (just go to the printer’s IP in your web browser) and disable both sleep and auto power off, and see if that helps? You can also change those option through the menu on the printer itself.

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            I don’t print a lot (average 1 page a day), so having the printer actively “awake” and consuming electricity all the time is pretty wasteful. So that wouldn’t move it into the category of “not evil” for me.

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              That makes sense. Too bad the sleep mode isn’t working well for you :(

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                11 months ago

                To me it’s just part and parcel of owning a printer. They’re awful devices, but one I unfortunately need to use on occasions.

                That said, the university printers aren’t bad. I’ve only threatened to throw them out of the window once. 😀

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      11 months ago

      I recommended Brother laser printers to some older relatives and this happened. The printers required a power reset every few days.