February 12th 2015 - HP Printer

February 12th 2015 - HP Printer

I swear to god I am going to throw something or hit the stupid thing!!!

All I want it to do is scan about 7 pages so that I can send them as an email so that they arrive quicker than via snail mail.  But no my HP 4500 Printer has other ideas.  It keeps telling me that 1. there are no computers detected and 2. scan to computer is not enabled.  So I follow the instructions, turn printer off and on again still nothing.  I click the disable scan to printer button and then click enable and still nothing.

I have no idea why it is doing this as it was working fine the other day.  My next port of call is to re-download the drivers incase they have somehow got corrupted or removed from laptop, not sure how they would have though.  I have unistalled and re-installed the drivers and still nothing.  So My final option was to completely uninstall and re-install the printer, turn laptop off and on again, turn printer off and on again and finally they are speaking to each other and have scanned the documents.  Only problem is I placed them upside down on printer and my laptop wont let me turn them round.  Oh well they will be emailed upside down!!!

Despite the printer being a pain today it is usually a good printer.  Although it wasn't that expensive when we bought it and the ink is very cheap to  replace (£17 total for both black and colour).  It has a scanner (when it works) a copy mechanism and is a good quality printer.  It also has the benefit of being wifi and you can connect to it via phone as well as laptop.  Most of the time I would definately reccommend it to people.  However today my answer would be NO!

January 12th 2015 - Laptop tray

JANUARY 12TH 2015 - laptop tray

My laptop tray is 1 of those that is filled with bean bag beans, now this was ok but the seams have split and everytime I move or put it down beans come out.  I did try and glue it back together but this hasn't worked.  Also since injuring my knee 2years ago having the laptop try right on my lap seems to add to the pain of my knees.

So I decided to do a hunt for a new laptop tray - 1 that had legs and rested around my legs and not sat on them seemed a good idea.  I looked at argos for 1 first - £28! Not a chance am I paying that!  So I then looked on pinterest for ideas of how to make them, I didn't find much. BUT I did find a very nice laptop tray (today's pin) and then looked on ebay and found almost the same one for just over £10 and ordered it.  Even though it's not here I have ordered 1 and will be here by the end of the week.

The old 1 will be going in the bin and hopefully my knees will ease up abit!