Monday, February 05, 2007

You're not special, HP 2300, all printers hate me

I'm not an idiot. Really. I have been using computers almost my whole life. I've been doing office work on them since 1995. I really do know how to set up documents and select printing preferences.

So why is it that when I am printing labels, and I set the document properties to print from the manual tray on the printer, then I set the printer default to manual tray and then I set the printing option to manual tray, it goes right ahead and prints from the internal tray onto regular paper?

Why? Because printers hate me. Variations of this include printers that group instead of collating despite a preference that is selected otherwise and printers that jam if you actually put paper in the manual tray before printing, but work OK if you wait till it complains that it doesn't have any, then carefully feed it in one sheet at a time.

I think somebody at HP needs to work on their printer drivers.

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