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local downlevel documents messing up my printer

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harrymac

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Jun 8, 2001
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My PC has two printers shared by a junction box. Recently the HP laser printer has been spewing out paper with rubbish on it. It's obviously trying to print with the HP720 driver. The cause appears to be "local downlevel documents" which are 49K long, appear mysteriously in the HP 720 printer queue, but print onto the laser printer immediately it is switched on. I don't know what generates these documents or how they can be blocked. Any help greatly appreciated. I'm on Windows XP Home
 
If it's not a simple A/B switch box (sounds like not) it could be bad.
 
There are a host of hits you'll get at groups.google.com in the query "local down level documents printer"...if you wanta' sort thru them...
 
Finally discovered what it was, a virus called W32bugbear. Took a number of goes to get rid of it but eventually norton anti virus cleared it out
 
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