🚀 go-pugleaf

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Aaron Brender wrote:

>Many of you suggested that disks should have come with our printers that
>would allow me to rename the printers so that they could be more easily
>defined.  This may be true seeing how I had to call HP and get them to send
>us the DOS driver diskettes which they conviently forgot to send.  Thanks
>for the help.

Similar experience here.We got two LaserJet4MPluses, one set of disks. One
disk went bad, but since I'd backed them up (clever me) on a HD, I thought
I could create duplicates. No way--the HP disks seem to be copy-protected
so that when you try to make new ones, they don't work. On the Mac, you get
an error that says something like "this disk has the right name but is not
the right disk". OK, there are lots of LaserJets floating around, so eventually
you can find somebody else who has the disk, or maybe use ResEdit to nuke
the invisible gizmo that is probably responsible--in the copious spare time
that all us lab managers have...;>. I went for the quickie low-tech approach of
Scotch(brand)-taping the little hole on the disk, and discovered by accident
that this made the *original* damaged disk work again! This seems beyond
all logic, but I finally managed to get the printers named and the drivers
configured on my 30 Macs with my taped-up disk.

Why would HP put such maximum security on their driver/utilities disks?
Who's going to pirate this stuff if they don't own the printers? Overkill,
IMHO, which serves only to torture innocent network administrators.
Whoever thought this one up must write manuals in his/her spare time...

Kate Coffield
American University in Cairo
kate@auc-acs.eun.eg