Hi everyone,
I'm sick of setting up eprint over and over again. Eprint is why I chose that printer in the first place. Have I bought a lemon?
At work we bought a CP-1025nw. It is a WONDERFUL little printer.
It's fairly easy (if very time consuming) to set up. It has good print quality. It seems quite tough.
Here's the use case:
- printer sits on the wifi network and is used as a network printer
- a thunderbird mail client somewhere uses mail filters to forward (remail) important emails to the printer through hp eprint
- product recalls, packing slips, urgent memos.... the printer would save me a lot of time and effort :-)
except for two FATAL problems:
1: every time there is a power outage or even a tiny little voltage drop, the printer will lose its settings. Then I have to connect it to wireless again, set its ip again, register on eprint again, then connect the eprint thingy to google cloud printing again, then go through and edit like 30 different filters in thunderbird to point to the new eprint email address.
WHY DOES IT KEEP FORGETTING ITS SETTINGS? IS THERE SOME KIND OF BATTERY I CAN PUT INTO IT TO MAKE IT NOT SO USELESS???????
2: The eprint service will not let me switch back to a previously used email address. For example, if I change the printer's address to i.am.a.printer@hpeprint.com and print to it a few times, and then there's a power cut, and I try to change the randomly generated address back to i.am.a.printer@hpeprint.com, the website complains "no sorry, that address is already taken"
WHY DO I KEEP HAVING TO RECONFIGURE EVERYTHING FOR NEW EMAIL ADDRESSES?
Maybe I should just register as many email addresses as possible until the namespace is exhausted? This is extremely disappointing as eprint would be a fantastic timesaver if the printer could just keep the same id!!
Is there any way that I can make this printer or the hp website behave sensibly or should I try to find a solution that doesn't involve eprint??
Thanks everyone,
Regards,
Chris