{"id":2479,"date":"2011-01-20T22:50:30","date_gmt":"2011-01-20T21:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/?p=2479"},"modified":"2011-01-20T22:50:30","modified_gmt":"2011-01-20T21:50:30","slug":"back-in-the-printing-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/2011\/01\/20\/back-in-the-printing-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Back in the printing game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/hp-officejet-8500a.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-2481\" title=\"HP Officejet 8500A\" src=\"http:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/hp-officejet-8500a-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"HP Officejet 8500A\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/hp-officejet-8500a-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/hp-officejet-8500a-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/hp-officejet-8500a.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>After my <a href=\"http:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/2011\/01\/07\/and-another-printer-died-on-me\/\">printer died<\/a>, I immediately ordered a new one online and not long afterwards I could pick it up from my local post office. As I use both the scanner and the printer features pretty much I went with another &#8220;all-in-one&#8221; model and I chose an HP model (again) basically because I&#8217;ve been happy with how my previous worked (before its death). &#8220;HP Officejet Pro 8500 A910&#8221; seems to be the whole name. And yeah, it really is as black as the picture here shows it.<\/p>\n<p>This model is less &#8220;photo-focused&#8221; than my previous but I never print my own photos so that&#8217;s no loss. What did annoy me was however that this model uses 4 ink cartridges instead of the 6 in my previous, but of a completely different design so I can&#8217;t even re-use my half-full ink containers from the corpse!<\/p>\n<p>My new printer has some fancy features. It is one of them that I can give an email address and then print on by sending email to it. The email address then gets a really long one with lots of seemingly random letters, it is in the hp.com domain and I can set up a white-list of people (From: addresses) that is allowed to print on it via email.<\/p>\n<p>It also has full internet access itself so it could fetch a firmware upgrade file and install that entirely on its own without the use of a computer. (Which made me wonder if they use <a href=\"http:\/\/curl.haxx.se\/libcurl\">libcurl<\/a>, but I realize there&#8217;s no way for me to tell and of course there are many alternatives they might use.)<\/p>\n<p>Driver-wise, it seems like a completely different set for Windows (hopefully this won&#8217;t uninstall itself) and on Linux I could install it fine to print, but xsane just won&#8217;t find it to scan. I intend to instead try to use the printer&#8217;s web service for scanning, hopefully that will be roughly equivalent for my limited use &#8211; I mostly scan documents, bills and invoices for my work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After my printer died, I immediately ordered a new one online and not long afterwards I could pick it up from my local post office. As I use both the scanner and the printer features pretty much I went with another &#8220;all-in-one&#8221; model and I chose an HP model (again) basically because I&#8217;ve been happy &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/2011\/01\/20\/back-in-the-printing-game\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Back in the printing game<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[420,421,299],"class_list":["post-2479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electronics","tag-electronics","tag-linux","tag-printer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2479"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2516,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2479\/revisions\/2516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}