Hi Computing.net, I have been having problems with my printer since I bought it - which has been more than a year ago. I bought it at radioshack. It's a HP C3180 Photosmart printer. it's connected with USB... here are notes from problems that I've had which explain it (in the past I recall updating the drivers and that didn't help:) 2008-10-25 I had to unplug and plug back in the printer - and I'm not sure about the whole 'use printer offline / online' thing 2008-10-24 after I finished installing the printer - it detected the device again and installed a new printer - a copy of the previous one. 2008-10-19 even when I had all the other USB devices unplugged it printed maybe one sheet and then started printing just a little bit of one paper and then shooting off to the next page and just consuming paper - very weird - printing and wasting lots of paper. printing a little bit and then going to the next sheet without finishing 2008-10-19 It seems to work as long as I have the USB mouse unplugged and the USB mp3 player unplugged....strange... like it literally started printing once I unplugged the USB mouse 2008-10-10 I had to unplug and replug in the USB cord for the printer for it to start printing... (?) - I think the USB MP3 player really screws up the USB printer things...weird... 2008-08-20 When I plugged in my printer just now it made '4' bell sounds - and it also interrupts Napster from working - like the USB ports conflict with each other or something..... 2008-08-19 I'm having problems with the USB where it will constantly make noise as though I'm plugging it in and then unplugging it - and I don't recall that problem happening when I've had previous printers - or I just feel like this printer may be faulty somehow (I bought it from Radioshack) or mabye because I'm using a laptop something on the motherboard is just crapping out on me - who knows....