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Thursday January 29th 2004 07:01 PM PST

Why is always when i want to do something SIMPLE, there are people out there who just don't get it? I got a new printer today. I want to put it EXACTLY where the old printer was, and i want it to work just like the old one. So heres all i want to do.

The new Brother printer should connect to my windows box via a parallel cable. Easy enough. Then i should be able to share the printer to the network and use the windows box as a print rip. Done deal. THEN i should be able to print to that computer's IP from any other computer on my network. You'd think that this would be easy. Now here's the problem. This printer is designed to be a USB printer when connected to a MAC, so when i set up the printer on my MAC i can't select the correct print driver just because i'm using Print to IP. THIS SHOULD BE EASY. The print driver is there. The computer knows how to talk to the printer. It just needs to send the SAME FUCKIN DATA to an IP instead of down the USB Cable. Is this too damn hard. And the greatest thing about all of this... the print utiltity lets me select any OTHER brother printer EXCEPT THE ONE I'VE GOT.

just needed to scream. I feel better now.