pnh102
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Maybe if you hooked the Lexmark printer to an unused Windows computer whose only network connection was handled by NetBeui (rather than TCP/IP) you could still use the printer with other networked computers but it would not be able to send squat to Lexmark.
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Jeremy341
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localhost | Or you could just not buy crappy Lexmark printers, and forget about this problem altogether. But that would be too easy...
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pnh102
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| said by Jeremy341  :Or you could just not buy crappy Lexmark printers, and forget about this problem altogether. But that would be too easy... Agreed, but one cannot call himself or herself an engineer without coming up with an overly complex and unworkable solution first 
But I figure this solution can also apply for other printers which behave badly.
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| said by pnh102 :this solution can also apply for other printers which behave badly. Thankfully, as far as anyone knows, no other printers do.
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said by pnh102 :Maybe if you hooked the Lexmark printer to an unused Windows computer whose only network connection was handled by NetBeui (rather than TCP/IP) you could still use the printer with other networked computers but it would not be able to send squat to Lexmark. Or just locate the hostname of the server the printer is trying to talk to and add it to your HOSTS file. I like to use 0.0.0.0 so it doesn't try to connect to my local machines. If it tries to connect to an IP address, things might be a bit more difficult, but I'm sure a lot of the folks around here have ways around that.
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said by pnh102 : Agreed, but one cannot call himself or herself an engineer without coming up with an overly complex and unworkable solution first HA! How True!
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