Re: PSA: Windows router-printer pipeline broke due to dynamic IP power surge resets

Maria Sophia wrote:
> COMMANDS USED:
>  1. Identify: Get-Printer | Select-Object Name, PortName
>  2. Create Port: Add-PrinterPort -Name "192.168.0.25" -PrinterHostAddress "192.168.0.25"
>  3. Map Port: Set-Printer -Name "HP LaserJet 2100 Series PCL 5" -PortName "192.168.0.25"
>  4. Clear Spooler: net stop spooler; del /Q /F /S "%systemroot%\System32\Spool\Printers\*.*"; net start spooler

Remember when it was a big deal to pay twice as much for a printer 
in order to get more than the default 8MB of memory and to add the 
internal JetDirect card bolted to the side in the HP "tn" series?

One important command is to press the big and small printer buttons
simultaneously to print out the HP LaserJet 2100 series Self-Test
configuration which not only shows the IP address it currently has, 
but also interesting details for such an ancient printer (circa 1998).

The test page shows
 24 Mbytes of total memory 
 19990105 firmware date code
 44382 pages printed 

Given these machines can go hundreds of thousands of pages in their
lifetime, it seems that at 44,000 pages, it's barely broken in.

I refill the HP 96A (C4096A) toner cartridge myself, where I got a solder
kit a decade or more ago to burn a penny-sized hole in the toner cartridge.

I've had, oh, I don't know, maybe a dozen refills in the past 25 years.
I never cleaned out the waste toner though, so I probably should do that.

In my humble opinion, the way to go with a home printer is
 1. Get a black-and-white laser printer that is built like a tank
 2. Archive the drivers (because HP & Microsoft no longer make that easy)
 3. Make sure the toner is user-replaceable with Amazon-bought powder

About the only thing that could have been improved in the past 25 years
is I could have added a Wi-Fi connection method, but otherwise, nothing
new has happened in printers since my HP 2100 TN was born back in 1999.