Sitting in the office, coming across an NYT article about Steve Perry. No time to read right now, printing it to read later in the train. F… picked the wrong printer; the one at home. Print job sitting in the queue looking for printer. Opening the right printer via system preferences Drag and drop job […]
Looking for a way to modify the default printer presets i.e. the presets called “Standard” in OS X I came across a Mac OS X Hints article that talks about the ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.print.custompresets.plist file. However, what I found way more interesting is that apparently OS X provides a web interface for CUPS at http://localhost:631/ for the […]
My rather new Brother started raising “false” alerts (at least I think they’re false…) about empty/dead toner, “Toner Life End” it said on the device display. I had only printed a few hundred pages so far. In search for an answer Google directed me to http://www.fixyourownprinter.com/forums/laser/39806. It’s a long and chaotic thread but about 1/5 […]