At the first BlogHer Food, when was that? I’ve forgotten, this really cool HP printer was on display at a party hosted by Elise, Ree and Jaden and TW and I fell in love with it. But it was really expensive – of course it was, you’d expect the God of all Printers to be expensive. Flash forward several months and we saw one on sale at a Staples that was going out of business in Skokie. We could not resist and we brought it home.
We love that printer and it’s never given us a moment of trouble. All of the computers talk nicely to it and it talks nicely to them. Even the computers who come to visit for winter vacation have played well with the God Printer.
And then something bad happened.
We switched from ATT DSL to ATT u-verse and the God Printer seemed ok with that. Until a couple days later when suddenly none of the computers recognized the God Printer. The God Printer itself said it was online. It happily showed me its wireless networking report (six times). It was happy to connect to the internet with the apps hosted on the God Printer. It was simply the computers who refused to talk to it.
I spent HOURS trying to get the computers to recognize the God Printer. Tweaking settings, uninstalling, reinstalling and finally – all was right with the home network. The laptops all began to talk to the God Printer and much printing took place.
Until a few hours ago when I wanted to print out a coupon for $2 off of a rotisserie chicken.
The laptops insist that the God Printer is offline. The God Printer on the other hand has happily shown me it’s networking report (twice) and it connects happily to the internet via the apps.
It’s like some sort of Holy War here in my office and it’s making me crazy. Why can’t we all just get along?