Re: Strangest printing problem ever
- From: "Unknown" <unknown@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 30 May 2008 17:03:52 -0500
Run a registry cleaner is the worst advice you have given.
"thecreator" <thecreatorof Xuxa@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi Rene Brehmer,
Have you tried simply uninstalling the HP 1200 Printer. Reboot.
Do maintenance on the Hard Drive removing all \Temp files and
sub-folders from the \Temp Folders on the Hard Drive, then running Disk
Cleanup. Followed up running Chkdsk /r. Run a Registry Cleaner if
available. Reboot and reinstall the Printer Drivers before reconnecting
the printer to the computer.
Takes time to do, but worth it.
Afterwards, test printing.
--
thecreator
"Rene Brehmer" <rene@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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And yeah, this turned out be a problem printing, rather than a printer
problem.
We have 1 machine, that all of a sudden about a month ago, started to act
weird: A Dell OptiPlex 170L desktop wit a HP 1200 printer locally on USB.
It would print reports from Simply Accounting, but not anything else from
Simply. We first thought it was a Simply problem and reconfigured the
printer, reinstalled Simply, but it didn't change anything, you hit
print,
it says it's printing, but job never shows up in spooler. It would still
print normally from any other program.
Then all of a sudden in the middle of the last payroll, it just stopped
being able to print at all. It would process the job, the spooler would
start running the job, transfer part of the data (or so it said), and
then
all of a sudden it would stop and a bubble would come up saying "There
was
an error while printing". I can't even get it to print the Windows test
pages, much less anything else.
I've tried reinstalling the driver, but it stops with a "unable to
install
PCL6 driver". Tried connecting printer on parallel (EPT/EPP enabled)
instead, same problem. Tried connecting a different printer (a Dell 1110)
on the USB, known to work on a different computer, but the machine can't
find the printer at all. Checked the device manager, the HP printer isn't
listed (do it normally list the printers? I can't remember - haven't had
to
fix printer problems forever).
Does USB work? I assume so, the mouse is on USB, and works fine. Spooler
is
running, no errors in the event logs relating to anything that has to do
with printing. Does the printer work? Yeah, it seems to work fine on
different computer... with the same cable... And the computer prints just
fine to the network printer. But because this is where we do the payroll,
for security reasons we don't like printing that stuff on the network
printer, and we don't like having the cheque paper in that printer
either.
Any ideas in this group? This by far beyond the strangest printing
problem
I have ever run into...
--
Rene Brehmer
IT Technician
North Hill Inn
http://www.northhillinn.com
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