If this is your first visit, be sure to check out the FAQ by clicking the link above. You may have to register before you can post: click the register link above to proceed. To start viewing messages, select the forum that you want to visit from the selection below. |
|
|
Thread Tools | Display Modes |
#1
|
|||
|
|||
Can USB print server damage a USB printer
I ran into a strange problem with a Linksys PSUS4 USB print server.
Its been connected to a Canon 6550 multifunction printer for months and suddenly it stopped working after someone tried to print to the Canon using the wrong printer driver. After going through the print servers admin utliity to check its status I found everything to be normal. It even claimed the printer was online and idle but when I would try to print it would fail. Even the Test Page sent from the print servers admin utility would fail. I tried resetting the printer server using the little reset button. Also unplugged and plug the Canons USB cable and power cord to reset it. Even reflashed the firmware on the print server. Nothing helped though the admin utility still showed all Status as fine. Finally resolved it by going into the Canon printers own panel settings and found a USB port enable/disable function , not sure why the hell Canon would even bother including such as feature. Well it was enabled but I disabled it and then reenabled it and suddenly the problem was fixed. Not sure if the printer server caused this or not but has anyone heard of this occuring with a USB print server. Can a print server corrupt a printers USB port like that? Or can printing with the wrong driver corrupt it? Anyone come across something like this before? Thanks in advance, Adam |
#2
|
|||
|
|||
Can USB print server damage a USB printer
Hi!
Finally resolved it by going into the Canon printers own panel settings and found a USB port enable/disable function , not sure why the hell Canon would even bother including such as feature. Now you know. :-) I would say that it is very unlikely that the print server device did any damage to the printer or anything wrong. Nearly all of these devices just pass data over the printer as though it were locally attached to your computer. The use of the incorrect print driver could have either confused the Canon printer badly enough to make it stop working, or perhaps it sent a command sequence that would normally never be issued to the printer in day-to-day usage. From there, the printer might have taken the errant command to mean "don't listen to the USB port at all". It is far more likely that the USB port's controlling logic in the printer was just confused by the garbage sent from the wrong printer driver. William |
Thread Tools | |
Display Modes | |
|
|
Similar Threads | ||||
Thread | Thread Starter | Forum | Replies | Last Post |
Linksys print server and mf printer | Ron P | Printers | 0 | December 18th 05 04:00 PM |
Print Server For Dell AIO printer | Jason | Printers | 1 | December 30th 04 10:55 AM |
Print server box or print server card in printer? | Chris Wilkins | Printers | 1 | October 7th 04 07:18 PM |
need USB print server for HP printer | news | Printers | 1 | July 15th 04 03:29 AM |
Print server to a USB multifunction printer | joekeg | General | 1 | May 12th 04 03:09 PM |