Archive of posts from 2024

Mar 7, 2024 HP Color LaserJet 5525dn Broken Network Port

At work, we have an HP Color LaserJet CP5225dn printer, which I love. Last year, our network card stopped working. I bought an external print server that sort of worked. For computers where the printer had already been set up, it worked ok. But new windows printers couldn’t add it properly because it couldn’t reach the printer to get the settings. As an example, it would say it was a black and white printer instead of color. And there was no way to override these settings.

Jan 1, 2024 Hello 2024!

Life is good! I want to remember this all the time. I really have no complaints and feel very lucky.