Printer & Dataswitch Problems

[mobyduck]

Here's the deal.

I have two printers attached via a Belkin dataswitch to a standard printer port.

Printer one is an HP Officejet 1050 all in one jobbie, whcih has installed itself to port DOT4_001. Provided the switch points to this printer, no problems.

Second printer is an HP Laserjet 1100a which is installed to port LPT1. No matter what I try, including taking the Officejet out of the equation and plugging the Laserjet directly to the printer port, all I get is garbage.

As an experiment, I set up the laserjet on a Windows 2000 machine and shared it across the network. Then added the printer to the original PC as a network printer and run a test print - perfect..so I don't think it can be drivers or dll versions.

I've removed and re-installed drivers until my fingers bled.

Help please before I toss it out of the window....

MD B-(

 

[Sympology]

If in doubt with HP Laserjet printers, try Laserjet 4 drivers. they work with everything!

Also have you changed the parrallel cable?

One other thing see what the printer port is set to in the BIOS.
Try variations of
EPP
ECP+EPP
BiDirectional.

May of got them mixed up, running from memory



Only the truly stupid believe they know everything.
Stu.. 2004

 

[mobyduck]

Thanks Stu.

Will try this and get back to you.

MD

 

[Rick998]

Is it all garbage or an PCL error followed by garbage? If it's the latter, try using the PCL5 driver, not the PCL6 one. It's slightly slower but IMHO more stable.

Another thing to try is, on the 'Ports' tab, remove the checkmark against 'Enable bidirectional support' and, on the 'Advanced' tab, remove the checkmark against 'Enable advanced printing features.

Hope this helps...