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hp printer slowing to a stop 2
Hi Bob, Thanks for the interest, replies as follows; First of all a correction file size should read 8. megs not 80 as first stated, just a wee typo. 1. Operating system: Win XP Pro 2. Paging file settings ?: Where do I find them 3 Connections: Usb 1 4 Failure to respond: Job spools up and print confirmation box appears and okay'd then nothing happens, power button flashes, and icons appear in systray, no paper feed or carriage action. 5. Spooler Queue: On clicking on the printer icon in systray the print queue shows the page as printing, in fact it is impossible to delete the job without a reboot. neither work offline or paused are selected. 6. Small jobs: Other jobs on normal settings work fine, even larger files, this only seem to happen when best quality and gloss paper is selected. 7. Test Page: prints a test page fine and fast except when tried after trying the gloss paper setting and the previous job is still in the list. 8. Ink Carts: Ink level seems fine. Further Info: I have a second printer an Hp 870cxi on the parallel port which prints great without any problem on the same job which causes problems on the 1220c., from this I would deduce that the problem is printer specific. I hope that this might be of help in your considerations and thanks again for the interest. David "Bob Headrick" wrote in message ... "tenchman" wrote in message ... Hi Group, I am running a p4, 2.66gh with 1 gig of ram. I have two 80gig hard drives almost empty. Yet when I come to print on my HP 1220c printer in best format and set to HP gloss paper, from Adobe Illustrator, file size 80megs approx, the printer fails to respond. It appears to be a spooling or setting problem, this was all working fine until recently, I have used a system restore back two weeks but that makes no difference. Can anyone please advise as to what might be the problem? Please post some more information about the setup and problem: 1. What OS? 2. What are your paging file settings? 3. Is the printer connected via parallel port or USB? If USB are you using an IEEE 1284 cable? 4. What is the nature of failing to respond - does the green light on the power button blink? Does the printer make any noises? Do any of the lights come on on the printer? Are there any error messages? 5. Does the job stay in the spooler queue? If so make sure the printer is not set to "paused" or "work offline" in the setup. 6. Will the printer work OK for small print jobs? 7. If no for [6] above will the printer print a test page from the toolbox or a self test as shown at: http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/d...lang=en#N10248 (using the button sequences for the 900 series printers, they are the same). 8. If no for [7] then open the lid. The carriage will move to one of 5 positions corresponding to all OK (happy face), black or color defective (unhappy face) or black or color low on ink. Does the carriage move to the happy face position? Regards, Bob Headrick, not speaking for my employer HP MS MVP Printing/Imaging |
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Having experience with the HP Color LaserJet 2500 connected with USB to
a Windows 2003 Server: - Printer connected to server, no probs, bling! printer etc. detected, installing, cdrom etc. test-page works. - Shared. - Connected from workstation (Win XP) to sha no probs, driver from server, test-page works. - Connected from other workstation (also Win XP) to sha no probs, bladibla, test-page etc. Now to actual operating conditions: It seems that if one workstation has used the queue to the printer the other is locked out or something like that. Unplug USB cable (either end) and replug, other job comes out, first workstation locked out. Having twiddled a bit with settings on server and workstation, I ran to the local computer store, bought a IEEE-something parallel cable, disconnected the USB cable, connected the parallel cable, bling! printer detected etc., removed n-th copy of same printer, switched port in printerdriver to LPT1 and _no_ queueing problems ever since. Just my $0.02. Alex. tenchman wrote: Hi Bob, Thanks for the interest, replies as follows; First of all a correction file size should read 8. megs not 80 as first stated, just a wee typo. 1. Operating system: Win XP Pro 2. Paging file settings ?: Where do I find them 3 Connections: Usb 1 4 Failure to respond: Job spools up and print confirmation box appears and okay'd then nothing happens, power button flashes, and icons appear in systray, no paper feed or carriage action. 5. Spooler Queue: On clicking on the printer icon in systray the print queue shows the page as printing, in fact it is impossible to delete the job without a reboot. neither work offline or paused are selected. 6. Small jobs: Other jobs on normal settings work fine, even larger files, this only seem to happen when best quality and gloss paper is selected. 7. Test Page: prints a test page fine and fast except when tried after trying the gloss paper setting and the previous job is still in the list. 8. Ink Carts: Ink level seems fine. Further Info: I have a second printer an Hp 870cxi on the parallel port which prints great without any problem on the same job which causes problems on the 1220c., from this I would deduce that the problem is printer specific. I hope that this might be of help in your considerations and thanks again for the interest. David "Bob Headrick" wrote in message ... "tenchman" wrote in message ... Hi Group, I am running a p4, 2.66gh with 1 gig of ram. I have two 80gig hard drives almost empty. Yet when I come to print on my HP 1220c printer in best format and set to HP gloss paper, from Adobe Illustrator, file size 80megs approx, the printer fails to respond. It appears to be a spooling or setting problem, this was all working fine until recently, I have used a system restore back two weeks but that makes no difference. Can anyone please advise as to what might be the problem? Please post some more information about the setup and problem: 1. What OS? 2. What are your paging file settings? 3. Is the printer connected via parallel port or USB? If USB are you using an IEEE 1284 cable? 4. What is the nature of failing to respond - does the green light on the power button blink? Does the printer make any noises? Do any of the lights come on on the printer? Are there any error messages? 5. Does the job stay in the spooler queue? If so make sure the printer is not set to "paused" or "work offline" in the setup. 6. Will the printer work OK for small print jobs? 7. If no for [6] above will the printer print a test page from the toolbox or a self test as shown at: http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/d...lang=en#N10248 (using the button sequences for the 900 series printers, they are the same). 8. If no for [7] then open the lid. The carriage will move to one of 5 positions corresponding to all OK (happy face), black or color defective (unhappy face) or black or color low on ink. Does the carriage move to the happy face position? Regards, Bob Headrick, not speaking for my employer HP MS MVP Printing/Imaging |
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I think the flashing power button indicates a problem, but check your
printer manual. I assume you've opened the printer to check for a paper jam? Don "tenchman" wrote in message ... Hi Bob, Thanks for the interest, replies as follows; First of all a correction file size should read 8. megs not 80 as first stated, just a wee typo. 1. Operating system: Win XP Pro 2. Paging file settings ?: Where do I find them 3 Connections: Usb 1 4 Failure to respond: Job spools up and print confirmation box appears and okay'd then nothing happens, power button flashes, and icons appear in systray, no paper feed or carriage action. 5. Spooler Queue: On clicking on the printer icon in systray the print queue shows the page as printing, in fact it is impossible to delete the job without a reboot. neither work offline or paused are selected. 6. Small jobs: Other jobs on normal settings work fine, even larger files, this only seem to happen when best quality and gloss paper is selected. 7. Test Page: prints a test page fine and fast except when tried after trying the gloss paper setting and the previous job is still in the list. 8. Ink Carts: Ink level seems fine. Further Info: I have a second printer an Hp 870cxi on the parallel port which prints great without any problem on the same job which causes problems on the 1220c., from this I would deduce that the problem is printer specific. I hope that this might be of help in your considerations and thanks again for the interest. David "Bob Headrick" wrote in message ... "tenchman" wrote in message ... Hi Group, I am running a p4, 2.66gh with 1 gig of ram. I have two 80gig hard drives almost empty. Yet when I come to print on my HP 1220c printer in best format and set to HP gloss paper, from Adobe Illustrator, file size 80megs approx, the printer fails to respond. It appears to be a spooling or setting problem, this was all working fine until recently, I have used a system restore back two weeks but that makes no difference. Can anyone please advise as to what might be the problem? Please post some more information about the setup and problem: 1. What OS? 2. What are your paging file settings? 3. Is the printer connected via parallel port or USB? If USB are you using an IEEE 1284 cable? 4. What is the nature of failing to respond - does the green light on the power button blink? Does the printer make any noises? Do any of the lights come on on the printer? Are there any error messages? 5. Does the job stay in the spooler queue? If so make sure the printer is not set to "paused" or "work offline" in the setup. 6. Will the printer work OK for small print jobs? 7. If no for [6] above will the printer print a test page from the toolbox or a self test as shown at: http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/d...lang=en#N10248 (using the button sequences for the 900 series printers, they are the same). 8. If no for [7] then open the lid. The carriage will move to one of 5 positions corresponding to all OK (happy face), black or color defective (unhappy face) or black or color low on ink. Does the carriage move to the happy face position? Regards, Bob Headrick, not speaking for my employer HP MS MVP Printing/Imaging |
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Hi Don
The fact that it works fine in the plain paper/normal mode discounts that, it only happpens when using best quality or photopaper settings. David "Don" wrote in message ... I think the flashing power button indicates a problem, but check your printer manual. I assume you've opened the printer to check for a paper jam? Don "tenchman" wrote in message ... Hi Bob, Thanks for the interest, replies as follows; First of all a correction file size should read 8. megs not 80 as first stated, just a wee typo. 1. Operating system: Win XP Pro 2. Paging file settings ?: Where do I find them 3 Connections: Usb 1 4 Failure to respond: Job spools up and print confirmation box appears and okay'd then nothing happens, power button flashes, and icons appear in systray, no paper feed or carriage action. 5. Spooler Queue: On clicking on the printer icon in systray the print queue shows the page as printing, in fact it is impossible to delete the job without a reboot. neither work offline or paused are selected. 6. Small jobs: Other jobs on normal settings work fine, even larger files, this only seem to happen when best quality and gloss paper is selected. 7. Test Page: prints a test page fine and fast except when tried after trying the gloss paper setting and the previous job is still in the list. 8. Ink Carts: Ink level seems fine. Further Info: I have a second printer an Hp 870cxi on the parallel port which prints great without any problem on the same job which causes problems on the 1220c., from this I would deduce that the problem is printer specific. I hope that this might be of help in your considerations and thanks again for the interest. David "Bob Headrick" wrote in message ... "tenchman" wrote in message ... Hi Group, I am running a p4, 2.66gh with 1 gig of ram. I have two 80gig hard drives almost empty. Yet when I come to print on my HP 1220c printer in best format and set to HP gloss paper, from Adobe Illustrator, file size 80megs approx, the printer fails to respond. It appears to be a spooling or setting problem, this was all working fine until recently, I have used a system restore back two weeks but that makes no difference. Can anyone please advise as to what might be the problem? Please post some more information about the setup and problem: 1. What OS? 2. What are your paging file settings? 3. Is the printer connected via parallel port or USB? If USB are you using an IEEE 1284 cable? 4. What is the nature of failing to respond - does the green light on the power button blink? Does the printer make any noises? Do any of the lights come on on the printer? Are there any error messages? 5. Does the job stay in the spooler queue? If so make sure the printer is not set to "paused" or "work offline" in the setup. 6. Will the printer work OK for small print jobs? 7. If no for [6] above will the printer print a test page from the toolbox or a self test as shown at: http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/d...lang=en#N10248 (using the button sequences for the 900 series printers, they are the same). 8. If no for [7] then open the lid. The carriage will move to one of 5 positions corresponding to all OK (happy face), black or color defective (unhappy face) or black or color low on ink. Does the carriage move to the happy face position? Regards, Bob Headrick, not speaking for my employer HP MS MVP Printing/Imaging |
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"tenchman" wrote in message ... Hi Bob, Thanks for the interest, replies as follows; First of all a correction file size should read 8. megs not 80 as first stated, just a wee typo. 1. Operating system: Win XP Pro 2. Paging file settings ?: Where do I find them Control Panel - System - Advanced - Performance Settings - Advanced - Virtual Memory Change and then check the settings. WIth 1Gb of RAM this is probably not going to be an issue. 3 Connections: Usb 1 Is this really USB 1 or is it 1.1? 1.0 had some issues, may or not be related to the problem you are seeing. I suspect that a computer new enough to have a 1G processor is probably ver 1.1 or later... 4 Failure to respond: Job spools up and print confirmation box appears and okay'd then nothing happens, power button flashes, and icons appear in systray, no paper feed or carriage action. 5. Spooler Queue: On clicking on the printer icon in systray the print queue shows the page as printing, in fact it is impossible to delete the job without a reboot. neither work offline or paused are selected. 6. Small jobs: Other jobs on normal settings work fine, even larger files, this only seem to happen when best quality and gloss paper is selected. 7. Test Page: prints a test page fine and fast except when tried after trying the gloss paper setting and the previous job is still in the list. 8. Ink Carts: Ink level seems fine. Further Info: I have a second printer an Hp 870cxi on the parallel port which prints great without any problem on the same job which causes problems on the 1220c., from this I would deduce that the problem is printer specific. Well, could be the printer, the driver or the communication. I am suspecting a communication problem here. Printing in photo best mode generates relatively huge files compared to plain paper normal or best modes. The 870 does not have nearly the data requirements of the 1220 due to the higher resolution on the 1220. One thing to try would be to temporarily connect the 1220c via the parallel port and see if the problem remains. (You should be able to just change the port in the printer properties. You might also temporarily set the 870 to point at FILE: or some other port just to keep any potential conflicts out of the way.) If this works then you might take a look at your USB chipset as there are some chipsets that need driver updates. See: http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/d...dlc=en&lang=en Regards, Bob Headrick, not speaking for my employer HP MS MVP Printing/Imaging |
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