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It Just Works!

Posted on Wednesday, November 29th, 2023

Dave!Apple makes things so easy!

To turn off the annoying printer message that pops up EVERY TIME YOU PRINT ON LARGE PAPER, simply research the CUPS print server documentation for a half hour, find the IP address of your printer, open the Unix Terminal app to type in the command line which will enable the web interface, navigate to your printers, click on the printer whose defaults you want to save (if it is available, otherwise restart your computer and start over), work your way through all the pages until you find the defaults for "Request Offset," set it to "no," click SAVE, type in your admin username ("admin" will not work and neither will your ShortName, but you'll find that out the hard way), type in your system password, authorize the changes, exit out of the CUPS web interface, restart your computer... AND THERE YOU GO! NO MORE ANNOYING POP-UPS EVERY TIME YOU FUCKING PRINT! IT'S JUST THAT EASY!!! AREN'T YOU GLAD YOU BOUGHT A FUCKING MAC?!???

THE DESTINATION PAPER IS NOT AVAILABLE WHEN REQUEST OFFSET IS SET TO OFFSET EACH SET!

Look, I realize that Apple is not wanting people to print stuff to save the planet and all that... but there are people who actually have to print stuff. The fact that they don't want to make such a basic function of their operating system be easy to use and manage is reeeeally telling on the "It just works" company.

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  1. J.P. says:

    I find it mind boggling that after all these years of OS X and MacOS, Apple is basically using the exact same printer infrastructure as their Linux counterparts, except Linux surprisingly does it a little more gracefully.

    If it’s not an iPhone, it’s apparently not a priority for Apple.

    • Dave2 says:

      Yep. All this. I’m sure Apple would use the excuse that they are “focusing on the digital future where nobody wastes paper to print stuff”… but this is a massive disservice to people who have to print for their work. Hard to believe that Apple once put a massive effort into printing. They were bleeding edge. Even going so far as to pioneer the adoption of PostScript in their printers and making sure that their fonts would display beautifully when printed instead of just shoving screen fonts to the printer. And then there’s all their effort to get WYSIWYG between screen and print. The list goes on and on. But now? Eh. They obviously do not care. At all.

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