David Vielmetter

Tag: Printer

  • IOS5 printing with FingerPrint

    I recently got an iPad2 and I upgraded to IOS5 pretty shortly after I got it to take advantage of iCloud. Since the upgrade, I haven’t been able to print via my previously setup AirPrint service on Windows. After wasting three days of poking around on the Internets researching ways to fix printing on IOS5…

  • Print dialog is slow to come up

    So I ran into an issue the other day where a system would take up to 30 seconds to display a print dialog on any installed printer. Almost as if the system was encountering some kind of timeout when trying to render the print dialog. Turns out the problem manifested itself only in applications like…

  • Xerox cutting footer off printed pages

    When printing scanned PDF documents to a Xerox WorkCentre 5665/5675/5687 from Windows 7 x64 the printout may appear cut off or seem as if the document margins have been changed. Said documents appear fine in print preview and even if the option Fit to Printable Area or Shrink to Printable Area is invoked, the printout…

  • HP printer drivers: software engineering gone wrong

    I’ve worked with HP Printers throughout my entire career. Lets face it, they’re still the gold standard in business laser printing. So when the time came to refresh all HP printers at a clients headquarter site, I found that HP had made some changes to their popular 2000, 3000, and 4000 lines of business laser printers. Unfortunately…