![]() ![]() Still, even in 2014 there are aspects of printing that are still needlessly complicated and difficult. ![]() On the Mac, the process is quite similar, though at least with the rise of Internet and AirPrint printers they’re all visible immediately (in the old days you had to know the IP address of the printer, something you’d obtain by printing the “config” sheet on the printer itself). On Windows, the system ostensibly sneaks onto the Internet and finds the proper driver, but more often than not I find that it just says “can’t find the right driver” and either just quits or offers to use a generic printer driver which rarely actually works. Problem is, printers are a pain to work with and there’s something about the complexity of sending data, having the printer receive it, and having it successfully come out of the printer as desired that seems to make things difficult. While most of us need hard copy of materials, whether it’s a paper to turn in at school, a letter to Mom or the latest artwork, we really haven’t achieved the so-called paperless society that was promised a decade ago as computers really began to become ubiquitous.
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