For years, you’ve always been able to buy a Mac and get a $100 rebate for a free printer from Apple. That is no longer the case. The “Buy a Mac, get a free printer” promotion has officially been...Apple Discontinues $100 Printer Rebate Promotion For New Mac Purchases
For years, you’ve always been able to buy a Mac and get a $100 rebate for a free printer from Apple. That is no longer the case. The “Buy a Mac, get a free printer” promotion has officially been...Apple ends its buy a Mac, get $100 off a printer promotion
Apple, effective today, ended its buy a Mac, get a $100 off of a printer promotion. The promotion typically runs yearly, so we are not sure why Apple stopped it. Apple sells a few $100 printers, so they typically advertise the promotion as “Buy a Mac, get a free printer.” Although Apple is putting a...
Maintenance Utility for HP designjet 130nr
Apple broke Hewlett-Packard maintenance utility under Snow Leopard for Designjet 130nr and 130 (and maybe for 30 and 100 series too).
Under Snow Leopard there's no way for HP130nr and HP130 user to access the maintenance utility and therefore perform ...
Print from page 2 onwards
Sometimes you want to print avoiding some cover page. Here a simple way to do it.
When sending something to the printer the OS X Print dialog provides many useful options. One of them is selecting the range of pages to be printed. I often find myself ...
Cool New Gadget Gives AirPrint iDevice Printing to Any Printer
Till now, HP has held a huge advantage over it’s printer rivals when it comes to printing from the iPad — because even though rivals have made strides with their own apps (like Epson’s slick iPrint app) HP’s printers remain the only ones with...10.7: Use Dell 5130cdn laser printer
I own a Dell Color Laser printer model 5130cdn and it has performed very well under Mac OS X 10.6 or lower. However, under Lion the printer went into a paused state after every job; resuming the printer triggered a duplicate job and a further pause. Th...
Opening a printer proxy from the Print dialog
I've had a number of PDF documents to print all at once with standard printer settings. I know that I can drag and drop them on to the printer proxy which then prints them out on the printer without opening the Print dialog each time.
As I usually don...
Print after Shutdown without Logging in
Often I send a document to the print queue before I have access or am connected to a printer, so I can close it and be done with it. However, sometimes I forget to print and then shutdown without printing. This is quite obviously a pain as you have to ...
HP Officejet 6500A Plus Printer Packs a Potent Pro Punch [Review]
In all the hubbub with HP killing the TouchPad and spinning off its PC division, one might forget that HP still has a strong connection with Apple: They’re the only printer manufacturer with printers that fully integrate prinitng from iOS, thanks to HP’s inclusion of...10.7: MacPorts CUPS-PDF 2.5.1 not printing
The MacPorts CUPS-PDF 2.5.1 port would not produce a printer, the 'backend' part. In Terminal, I found the file /usr/libexec/cups/backend/cups-pdf is set up as a symlink (root:wheel) to file /opt/local/libexec/cups/backend/cups-pdf (my_user-id:staff).
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Printer patents portend driver-free future
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office published two patents in the past week that suggest Apple is trying to eliminate the much-loathed printer driver. As first noted by ConceivablyTech, the two patents each describe a way for your Mac to get the n...
Apple Wants To Kill Off Printer Drivers Once And For All [Report]
There will soon be a day when a driver is not required for printing. Wireless printing has become more of a household standard as new printers roll out with cloud technology, and Apple is looking to make the printing experience as painless and seamless as...
