{"id":3798,"date":"2010-09-22T18:25:41","date_gmt":"2010-09-23T01:25:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2010\/09\/22\/goodbye-old-faithful-printer\/"},"modified":"2010-09-22T18:35:23","modified_gmt":"2010-09-23T01:35:23","slug":"goodbye-old-faithful-printer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2010\/09\/22\/goodbye-old-faithful-printer\/","title":{"rendered":"Goodbye Old Faithful Printer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/hp4l.png' title='hp4l.png'><img src='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/hp4l.png' alt='HP 4L' class='right' width='180' \/><\/a>After nearly twenty years, my old Hewlett Packard 4L Laserjet printer finally bought the farm. The venerable old printer started misfeeding the paper last night causing jams and errors. I tried troubleshooting it for a while but it stubbornly refused to cooperate. So I disconnected it from the network and loaded it up to go to the HAZMAT recycle center on Friday. I have a bunch of other HAZMAT items boxed up so the timing is right.<\/p>\n<p><em>Image: HP 4L &#8211; Click to enlarge<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Even before showing signs of failure, it started getting hard to find toner cartridges for the old printer. Fortunately, one on-line source came through a couple of years ago when I ordered a couple of toner cartridges. I used one up and the last one we had started to exhibit signs of going out of toner. <\/p>\n<p>The last time I installed the printer on the new laptop, I had a difficult time locating an on-line source for a proper printer driver. I guess the signs were all there that the time has come for a new printer.<\/p>\n<p>We will be in the market for a new printer when the new house in Arizona is complete. In California, we&#8217;re going to scout out and buy a cheapie printer to use until we finally get the house on the market.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After nearly twenty years, my old Hewlett Packard 4L Laserjet printer finally bought the farm. The venerable old printer started misfeeding the paper last night causing&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":190,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70,6,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arizona","category-california","category-technology-talk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/190"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3798\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}