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hp laserjet 4L on windows XP
Has anybody had success getting an HP laserjet 4L to work on Windows XP
Home? For each print job, mine prints out many pages with a just couple of lines of gobbledygook at the top of each page. I see from the hp website forum that many users are having problems with HP Laserjets and WinXP. Discussions there have included changing the bios (to allow ECP on the printer port), allowing any interrupt to be used for the port, and loading NT drivers instead, but none of these have worked for me. I'd rather like to get this working as it gives a lovely print, so if anyone knows the answer I'd like to hear from you. Sue. |
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On Sat, 5 Jul 2003 21:11:11 +0100, nospam hath writ:
Has anybody had success getting an HP laserjet 4L to work on Windows XP Home? For each print job, mine prints out many pages with a just couple of lines of gobbledygook at the top of each page. I see from the hp website forum that many users are having problems with HP Laserjets and WinXP. Discussions there have included changing the bios (to allow ECP on the printer port), allowing any interrupt to be used for the port, and loading NT drivers instead, but none of these have worked for me. I'd rather like to get this working as it gives a lovely print, so if anyone knows the answer I'd like to hear from you. Sue. It shouldn't be `difficult`. My wife's Win XP Pro is attached to our OS/2 Peer lan here, and prints without any `special` setup to a HP LJ III attached to one on the OS/2 boxen. Granted, it's a LJ III -- versus a LJ 4. But the two printers are pretty much interchangeable at the plug level -- when plain-and-simple printer definitions are used. Are you sure the XP isn't trying to push PostScript into that LJ 4? That could explain the "...gobbledygook at the top of each page." (Re)Check your XP settings (... however one does _that_.) (I do have a LJ 4 here -- but, it's bolted to one of the linux boxen... Cost me $10 at the local thrift shop.) HTH, Jonesy -- | Marvin L Jones | jonz | W3DHJ | OS/2 | Gunnison, Colorado | @ | Jonesy | linux __ | 7,703' -- 2,345m | config.com | DM68mn SK |
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"Allodoxaphobia" wrote in message ... On Sat, 5 Jul 2003 21:11:11 +0100, nospam hath writ: Has anybody had success getting an HP laserjet 4L to work on Windows XP Home? For each print job, mine prints out many pages with a just couple of lines of gobbledygook at the top of each page. I see from the hp website forum that many users are having problems with HP Laserjets and WinXP. Discussions there have included changing the bios (to allow ECP on the printer port), allowing any interrupt to be used for the port, and loading NT drivers instead, but none of these have worked for me. I'd rather like to get this working as it gives a lovely print, so if anyone knows the answer I'd like to hear from you. Sue. It shouldn't be `difficult`. My wife's Win XP Pro is attached to our OS/2 Peer lan here, and prints without any `special` setup to a HP LJ III attached to one on the OS/2 boxen. Granted, it's a LJ III -- versus a LJ 4. But the two printers are pretty much interchangeable at the plug level -- when plain-and-simple printer definitions are used. Are you sure the XP isn't trying to push PostScript into that LJ 4? That could explain the "...gobbledygook at the top of each page." (Re)Check your XP settings (... however one does _that_.) (I do have a LJ 4 here -- but, it's bolted to one of the linux boxen... Cost me $10 at the local thrift shop.) HTH, Jonesy -- | Marvin L Jones | jonz | W3DHJ | OS/2 | Gunnison, Colorado | @ | Jonesy | linux __ | 7,703' -- 2,345m | config.com | DM68mn SK Ta, but I don't think it is that; in addition to the driver bundled with XP I've tried the PCL5e drivers and the postscript drivers from the HP website, but they all give the same result. Sue |
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I own a 4L and have no problems printing from within XP Professional.
The LaserJet 4L does not work well (or at all) when it is connected to an ECP port. Try changing your port settting to SPP or EPP. The 4L does not support PostScript, so it's no surprise that you get garbage from the PS driver. The 4ML supports PostScript. "nospam" wrote in message ... Has anybody had success getting an HP laserjet 4L to work on Windows XP Home? For each print job, mine prints out many pages with a just couple of lines of gobbledygook at the top of each page. I see from the hp website forum that many users are having problems with HP Laserjets and WinXP. Discussions there have included changing the bios (to allow ECP on the printer port), allowing any interrupt to be used for the port, and loading NT drivers instead, but none of these have worked for me. I'd rather like to get this working as it gives a lovely print, so if anyone knows the answer I'd like to hear from you. Sue. |
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