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That's just the tip of the iceberg of printer issues. I'm in networking, don't get me started on networking and security issues involved in printing "solutions"
I used to work as IT on a multinational and have few things in this life than i hate more than printers and owls, but they found a way tonmake printers even shittier
We tried the owls in some of our meeting rooms and we scrapped those.
What's the point of having a 360 camera in the center of the room when everyone will stare at the big TV anyway? All the people at the other end see is everyone looking sideway to the camera.
If you buy their TV bar unit, apparently you can pair the two to cover longer tables. The people in the back are covered by the table unit and the front is covered by the bar.
I know this from reading knowledge base articles because no organization I've ever been apart of ever wanted to spend the money on a good system that covered everything properly, so I have never had the chance to do it.
It automatically focuses on whoever is speaking.
Still, most people will look at the TV during the meeting, so all you see is one side of their faces.
I took one of the broken ones from my office, repaired it, and now it allows my dnd campaign to see the DM and all the other players reactions when playing remotely.
What do you have against owls?
having to constantly replace mice
Only the bluetooth ones or also the wired ones?
Are you talking to me? Oh, you weren't? Then who were you talking to?
Who? Who? Who? Who?
Not hooty owls, it's a conferencing thing.
I have nothing against the damn pests until they start to making their nests near my house, since the college the same owl have his nest near and the fucking screaming the whole night.
Sometimes even when the mother abandon the nest and the owls grow up one asshole offspring refuses to hunt and spend the night screaming wait for his mom back with, until it gave up on starvation and goes way or (hopefully) dies
Sounds like it sucks at every level. From what I've dealt with on just software/drivers:
You want to use scan to email through anything that isn't a fully open, no auth, anonymous SMTP relay? Go fuck yourself.
Wait... we changed our mind. We'll totally support SMTP authentication, but with an arbitrary undocumented limit on the password length we can store, which is definitely shorter than the password length requirements for most SMTP relay suites. Certificates? Holy shit are you from the future?
Or you can scan to network share, but I hope you enjoy finding all the hidden catches and caveats that are completely undocumented!
You want an option so people have to log in at the printer itself to release their print job? Enjoy six different interfaces for five different underlying standards for how that works across two different manufacturers. And we reserve the right to just stop supporting that feature or change it entirely with any firmware or driver update. And if there's a mismatch between the driver and firmware then we'll just make the print spooler/job queue shit itself and require manual intervention to continue printing.
You want our driver to properly communicate to end user software the paper sizes it supports? If it supports double sided printing or not? How it will collate multiple copies? Man, we can't even care enough to indicate to software if we're Black and White or Color. Best we can do is completely ignore the options you picked through your software and our driver and just do whatever we think is best. That's a good compromise, right?
For the price of these god damn enterprise mfds, there's no excuse.