My HP Laserjet 1100 

has printed an average of 5 pages a day for 25 years & counting.

My latest Unix workstation can print to it just fine.

My latest Linux workstation can print to it just fine.

My latest Windows workstation can't print to it at all because a compatible driver doesn't exist. No compatible driver exists because HP removed downloads for Vista, 7, 8, 8.1, & 10, & Microsoft removed it from Windows Update for 10 & 11.

But if I downgrade to S2K3, XP, 2K, or NT4, I can print to it.

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re: My HP Laserjet 1100 

What really blows my mind is that Unix & Linux can print to it just fine on brand new hardware because HP themselves wrote & released cups drivers for it.

openprinting.org/printer/HP/HP

HP once made tanks for soho printers. Now they just make disposable hardware with quickly abandoned support.

re: My HP Laserjet 1100 

Also, on a positive tangent, the long since lost manual for my printer has a section on cleaning the lone faulty part: the pick-up roller. Thank the Internet Archive for preserving the needful things their makers don't.

archive.org/details/printerman

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