Before buying this printer, I made a quick search to confirm that it has wifi connectivity... (the algorithm lied to me) - eviltoast

and because i’m a lazy ass i didn’t read the specs but just read the search engine result.

I also assumed that because 6 years ago i bought a $50 hp envy and it had wifi, this much expensive one is also going to have it

Result: that $250 printer doesn’t actually have wifi

  • Moonrise2473@feddit.itOPEnglish
    1·
    1 month ago

    considering that clicking on “status page” in the printer driver opens http://localhost:58510/index.html in the browser and Windows sees it as “Canon G2070 series HTTP”, I wonder if they took the lazy path and the USB is used as a simple network adapter…

    • mark3748@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      6·
      1 month ago

      No, it means the printer driver is running a web server to host the status page. Localhost is literally your computer.