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Not printing to HP Laserjet 4 Plus from Windows XP
I'm running a dual boot computer, Windows XP SP3 on one side, Fedora
Core 3 on the other. Printing fails from the Windows side, but works fine from the Linux side. So, it's not hardware. As an expedient I route printing from this system to another computer on a home LAN. But I want to get printing fixed. I tried reinstalling the HP Laserjet 4 Plus driver for XP, both from www.downloads.com (CNET) and from HP. No luck. Any ideas? What about the driver for LPT1? |
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Not printing to HP Laserjet 4 Plus from Windows XP
On Sat, 30 May 2009 14:21:57 UTC, Keith Snyder wrote:
I'm running a dual boot computer, Windows XP SP3 on one side, Fedora Core 3 on the other. Printing fails from the Windows side, but works fine from the Linux side. So, it's not hardware. As an expedient I route printing from this system to another computer on a home LAN. But I want to get printing fixed. I tried reinstalling the HP Laserjet 4 Plus driver for XP, both from www.downloads.com (CNET) and from HP. No luck. Are you using the right driver? If you use the 4M Plus one, it won't work unless you have the PostScript option. FWIW, I can print to my LJ 4+ printers from XP, using the drivers supplied with XP. No special LPT1 driver. -- Bob Eager Use the BIG mirror service in the UK: http://www.mirrorservice.org |
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Not printing to HP Laserjet 4 Plus from Windows XP
Keith Snyder wrote:
I'm running a dual boot computer, Windows XP SP3 on one side, Fedora Core 3 on the other. Printing fails from the Windows side, but works fine from the Linux side. Define "fails". So, it's not hardware. As an expedient I route printing from this system to another computer on a home LAN. But I want to get printing fixed. I tried reinstalling the HP Laserjet 4 Plus driver for XP, both from www.downloads.com (CNET) and from HP. No luck. Any ideas? What about the driver for LPT1? If the printer is connected to the network, why would you use a parallel port? For that matter, your printer might be set to only accept input from Ethernet. The second part of these instructions tells how to set up true network printing on Windows. http://groups.google.com/group/comp....0d68c775d43f25 -- Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota * USA |
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Not printing to HP Laserjet 4 Plus from Windows XP
Bob Eager wrote:
On Sat, 30 May 2009 14:21:57 UTC, Keith Snyder wrote: I'm running a dual boot computer, Windows XP SP3 on one side, Fedora Core 3 on the other. Printing fails from the Windows side, but works fine from the Linux side. So, it's not hardware. As an expedient I route printing from this system to another computer on a home LAN. But I want to get printing fixed. I tried reinstalling the HP Laserjet 4 Plus driver for XP, both from www.downloads.com (CNET) and from HP. No luck. Are you using the right driver? If you use the 4M Plus one, it won't work unless you have the PostScript option. FWIW, I can print to my LJ 4+ printers from XP, using the drivers supplied with XP. No special LPT1 driver. That's a possiblity, I might be trying the 4M driver, but I thought I had Postscript option installed. Still, I'll check. Failure to print was sudden with no obvious explanation. I turned the machine over to my wife some time ago, and she uses it for email and web browsing. I remain the family CTO, so she does no maintenance. She has no admin privileges because her naive clicking on URLs worried me. We shared the printer with a data switch. She got the hang of it. Then, one day she could no longer print. As an expedient, I set up her machine to print via LAN through my machine. The printer is not on the LAN. It is connected by parallel port to my machine. But I'd still like to get her machine to print directly (via the data switch) to the HP 4+. |
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Not printing to HP Laserjet 4 Plus from Windows XP
On Sun, 31 May 2009 16:05:06 UTC, Keith Snyder wrote:
We shared the printer with a data switch. She got the hang of it. Then, one day she could no longer print. If it's a manual one, the LJ4s were notorious (AFAIR) for blowing up the parallel interfce if used with one that was just a switch. -- Bob Eager Use the BIG mirror service in the UK: http://www.mirrorservice.org |
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Not printing to HP Laserjet 4 Plus from Windows XP
"Bob Eager" wrote in message ... On Sun, 31 May 2009 16:05:06 UTC, Keith Snyder wrote: We shared the printer with a data switch. She got the hang of it. Then, one day she could no longer print. If it's a manual one, the LJ4s were notorious (AFAIR) for blowing up the parallel interfce if used with one that was just a switch. -- Bob Eager Use the BIG mirror service in the UK: http://www.mirrorservice.org Aha! That would explain it. The data switch is manual. Thanks. |
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