Friday 07/28/2023
Went for the standard walk; all good. Then it was time to join Edie on a shopping trip. I had helped her buy and install a new iMac. Then we learned that her 2010-era HP printer wasn’t supported. The latest driver download you could get for it was for MacOS 10.4, circa 2012 and still 32-bit. The new iMac came with MacOS 13.4, a 64-bit OS. So she needed a new printer. She doesn’t drive so I offered to go on a shopping trip to Office Depot and Best Buy.
There are some insane bargains in printer tech these days. You can get a nice Epson all in one (scanner printer fax) for $65. Unfortunately that one is butt-ugly and also only feeds from the rear tray, so she vetoed that. She picked an HP, it is small and cute and looked like it would work, although I mistrust HP software.
Late in the afternoon we met again to try to install it. The “HP Smart” app will flatly not initialize a printer connected by USB. It must use wifi. And although it could connect to the printer and start the initialization, it couldn’t complete it. Multiple times through the process, it hung on the final step. We’ll have another go at it tomorrow or Sunday.
I ate dinner alone, at a table for one. Not what I usually do; I usually sit at a “Community table”. But I didn’t feel like being sociable.
Codgerville 