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Epson customers report Google Cloud Print causing printers to power down

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Re: Epson customers report Google Cloud Print causing printers to power down

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Post by toomuchtodo »

agumonkey wrote: post #80
toomuchtodo wrote: post #78

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> For personal use, the brother laser devices Rarely do I fanboy over a piece of electronic device, but this rings so incredibly true. I get thousands of pages out of my Brother laser printer per toner cartridge, it duplexes, the wireless just works . If you absolutely need a printer, get the sub-$100 brother laser printer.

May I inquiry your Brother printer model ?

looks under desk HL-2270DW, but that version appears to be an older model now (I've had it for about 5 years). Check out the newer version on Amazon for $80, its the version I bought for my Grandmother and it is just as reliable.

https://www.amazon.com/Brother-HL-L2340DW-Monochrome-Wireles...

Re: Epson customers report Google Cloud Print causing printers to power down

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Post by kylegordon »

thearn4 wrote: post #66
agumonkey wrote: post #6

We'll have Fusion reactors before solid and enjoyable printers.

I have a black and white Brother brand laser printer that has been great going on 5 years.

I don't know how old my HP Laserjet 4000 was when I was given it, but 13 years on it's still going strong.

I use it very infrequently, admittedly.

Re: Epson customers report Google Cloud Print causing printers to power down

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Post by cmurf »

Spooky23 wrote: post #58
semi-extrinsic wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You're saying I should definitely rescue the unused LaserJet III from the dusty corner at the office printer room?

Absolutely. They are no doubt the best printers in your company's facility. Most printers for enterprises are garbage now without a service contract or managed print deal. For personal use, the brother laser devices <$100. Are the best bet. Simple, reliable and most of the things that break are either field replaceable or you can ditch the device.

I have two HL-2040s and they've been bullet proof. What I'd really like now is a simple way to make them IPP Everywhere or Google Cloud Print printers to make all the cross platform usage identical.

Re: Epson customers report Google Cloud Print causing printers to power down

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Post by fapjacks »

Tempest1981 wrote: post #4

How do you manage to engage an internal Google team on an issue? From the story: "We are working with Epson and internal Google teams to root cause this issue" I've seen many help forum threads go unanswered, after days and pages of postings.

I used to work for a business that Google wants to buy. That is one way to get pipelines opened up to internal Google teams.

Re: Epson customers report Google Cloud Print causing printers to power down

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Post by agumonkey »

toomuchtodo wrote: post #81
agumonkey wrote: post #80

Earlier quoted context omitted.

May I inquiry your Brother printer model ?

looks under desk HL-2270DW, but that version appears to be an older model now (I've had it for about 5 years). Check out the newer version on Amazon for $80, its the version I bought for my Grandmother and it is just as reliable. https://www.amazon.com/Brother-HL-L2340DW-Monochrome-Wireles...

Thanks, old is fine, maybe I'll snipe one on craigslist, even though, very few brother laser printers get back on the market ;)

Re: Epson customers report Google Cloud Print causing printers to power down

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Post by Veratyr »

rplst8 wrote: post #76

I've had the same thing happen with my Epson WF-3540. It's been a totally solid printer up until this point. To fix it I started it up and immediately disabled the Wi-Fi. Then I "suspended" Google Cloud Print and Epson Connect Services. It's working fine now - albeit with no cloud services for our phones/tablets. Hopefully they resolve this soon.

In my case (WF-7610) I couldn't even get it to boot so I had to power down my wifi router entirely but the rest of the workaround worked.

Re: Epson customers report Google Cloud Print causing printers to power down

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Post by nucleardog »

mcagl wrote: post #64
jaclaz wrote: post #62

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>So if I'm in my room, on my laptop, at 3 meters from my ubersupercloudenabled printer, I can send my file to it via the web. Securely. Ok. Conversely, if you are NOT within a few meters of your printer, resetting the machine, managing paper jams, cartridge or toner replacement (i.e. solve the issues that invariably happen every single time you really need to print something, particularly if you are in a hurry) is tr…

Exactly. I don't know why this GCP seems so "irreplaceable" to people using it, given the implications of "sending your files to google just to print them". I can do the same using a wifi/eth enabled printer and my router plus maybe using a firewall to block the printer to go out on the internet and to be called from outside.

> I can do the same using a wifi/eth enabled printer and my router plus maybe using a firewall to block the printer to go out on the internet and to be called from outside.

Gmail? I can do the same thing with a VPS, qmail, dspam, courier, and roundcube. Why does gmail even exist?

Congratulations - you're very smart. But you're not the target market.

Re: Epson customers report Google Cloud Print causing printers to power down

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Post by zer00eyz »

agumonkey wrote: post #77
alyandon wrote: post #72

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Same here. Switched to Brother and am never looking back.

Thought about switching to a Brother laser, possibly wireless, with automated recto-verso scanner too.

I have a non wireless brother laser printer (hooked to a raspberry pi for wireless printing). I can't say enough good things about my brother printer.

I have though about buying a scanner and a color laser and wiring up a copier through the pi (scan then print at the push of a button) --- but finding a stand alone scanner that will do 11 by 17 has been a chalenge

Re: Epson customers report Google Cloud Print causing printers to power down

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Post by rplst8 »

Veratyr wrote: post #86
rplst8 wrote: post #76

I've had the same thing happen with my Epson WF-3540. It's been a totally solid printer up until this point. To fix it I started it up and immediately disabled the Wi-Fi. Then I "suspended" Google Cloud Print and Epson Connect Services. It's working fine now - albeit with no cloud services for our phones/tablets. Hopefully they resolve this soon.

In my case (WF-7610) I couldn't even get it to boot so I had to power down my wifi router entirely but the rest of the workaround worked.

P.S. looks like they fixed it. I have Google Cloud Print re-enabled and it's working fine.
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