and because i’m a lazy ass i didn’t read the specs but just read the search engine result.
I also assumed that because 6 years ago i bought a $50 hp envy and it had wifi, this much expensive one is also going to have it
Result: that $250 printer doesn’t actually have wifi
So one thing I tend to do when researching a product is search for “<model_name> specs” or “specifications”. I usually try to see if they have a marketing slick or one pager of what the item has to find it out. If worse comes to worse I’ll browse the user manual, if something is ambiguous but majority of the times that search will help me find what I need.
Unfortunately, reading the specs for a tech product is mandatory. A single sentence in a preview will never tell you everything you need to know; this was an expensive lesson for you. I’d like to second the recommendation for a Brother laser printer.
It’s also possible that the circuitry is there, but not activated in this model.
Get a brother laser printer
Yeah, that’s the rip off right there, 250$ for a printer and it’s not a Brother? Fuck no.
I paid $45 for mine and it works flawlessly every time.
Honestly why buy a printer? Consumer grade sucks and printing is typically .10 a page
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if I didn’t have a printer I would need a standalone scanner, which costs almost the same amount
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Driving to Staples to print a $0.10 page wastes $50 worth of time and gas
A cheap printer pays for itself very quickly.
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To be fair, the network integration of my printer sucks. I think I’ll just tape a raspberry to it and use it as a print server.
“Honestly, a literal raspberry might do a better job at network integration than your printer right now. Just be careful it doesn’t jam… or jam, you know?”
It’s worth preserving.
You might end up in a sticky situation.
Just send it back
i already opened it and filled with ink, if it was from amazon i’d do that, but i bought it from a small business and that would cause a big loss to them, the printheads are now primed and a return is e-waste as they’re going to dry if sitting unused in a warehouse. At work we have many usb to ethernet print servers from the early 00s, they’re now e-waste and i can get one for free (it’s just that wifi is more convenient and i can place it wherever it fits, instead of routing a cable to the switch)
edit: wait… i realized only now that printheads are disposable (they’re removable and not preinstalled) but they don’t sell those as a spare part??? FUCK! Will this be destined to the e-waste collection in 2-3 years???
Even the printers that sell print heads as parts charge 3/4 of the printers price for them.
And, if you don’t print from an inkjet inside of about 6 months they often get clogged.
Laser printers can sit around for a decade fire right up and be fine. Inkjet printers are but for a narrow set of circumstances destined in short-term for e-waste.
Ewww ink jet.
I also took 30 minutes of reading the manual before realizing that, yes it doesn’t appear in the wifi network list because it doesn’t actually have wifi connectivity…
the user manual is shared with other 10 models and has sections like “how to share the scanner in the network”
I was so ready to call you dumb, but this is the most annoying bullshit. Makes the manual virtually useless when it has specs for shit that you didn’t buy. Needs to be illegal
This is also why you get search results that seem like this model has wifi.
