Chapter 5
Working with Printers
IN THIS CHAPTER
Attaching a new printer to your PC or network
Solving print queue problems
Troubleshooting other problems with printers
Stopping a runaway printer
The paperless office. What a wonderful concept! No more file cabinets bulging with misfiled flotsam. No more hernias from hauling cartons of copy paper, dumping the sheets 500 at a time into a thankless plastic maw. No more trees dying in agony, relinquishing their last gasps to provide pulp as a substrate for heat-fused carbon toner. No more coffee-stained reports. No more paper cuts.
No more … oh, who am I trying to kid? No way.
Industry prognosticators have been telling people for decades that the paperless office is right around the corner. Yeah, sure. Maybe around your corner. Around my corner, I predict that PC printers will disappear about the same time as the last Star Trek sequel. We’re talking geologic time here, folks. We’re slowly getting rid of printers, but like fax machines, they’re not going to vanish with the next version of Windows.
The biggest problem? Finding a printer ...
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