Shoulda told Santa, I guess. All I got was a lump of coal.

Dang Kodak HERO (what a stupid name) printer! I spent days upon days with Kodak in INDIA (yeah, I could tell!) last year. They had a case open that they couldn't solve....took days. Turned out that printer was incompatible with my new router (Netgear) model. Woo Hoo. Somehow they connected to my computer and fixed it. Bought these in April 2012.

Now the print quality is kaput. Skips every other line. I've bought TWO new cartridges! Same with each. Only way it would print anything readable was to go to Print Maintenance and do something called "Clean Printhead". I had to do that for EVERY sheet of paper, takes about 3 minutes. But it would print somewhat legibly.

Got an email I wanted to print. It printed it but skipped every other line. I tried to do the "Clean Printhead" routine, and it says my printer is Disconnected!!! My router says it sees it. My printer says it's connected. But it won't do the maintenance.

So, I decided to just try and print the email again, and now it spools it forever, and won't print it either. SO, I connected the ROUTER (NOT the Printer) via RJ45 cable instead of wireless, and VOILA, the Printer software now says "Oh, yeah, I'm connected now". THEN I ran the maintenance and cleaned the printhead, and it allowed me to print ONE page of the email and not skip lines, but it's 'weak' printing. The next page is skipping lines. So, the maintenance function has to be done every page to even have half a chance to read it.

I'd just throw it away and eat the money and go buy a new printer, but I don't fully understand the original problem of the router not seeing the printer wirelessly, but DOES see it if the printing computer is wired RJ45...........and I'm afraid a new printer will just do the same thing.

Aggcckkkkkkkk!@!!