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Carlitos
January 8th 04, 09:25 PM
Hi there, I'm having exactly the same problem, have you
guys found any solutions?
thanks a million

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>>>I am XP Professional, P4 2.6. I consistently get
>>>the "This document failed to print" popping up every
20
>>>seconds while printing on either one of my 2 HP
>>printers.
>>>The print does complete successfully but it pauses
>every
>>>time I get the message so it slows everything down
>>>considerably. I can't pin down any changes that I made
>>>that corresponds to this starting. It seems only to
>>>happen when printing color. I have downloaded the
>latest
>>>drivers with no luck. Any ideas. Jim
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>>I have more or less the same problem with an HP Deskjet
>>880C! I cnnot even print a test page. It is independant
>>from application and of the type of document
black&white
>>or color. i already reprted the problem to HP, but
>>without success until now; Did you solve it?
>>Thanks for help (if you can)
>>.
>>Here is more data for the problem. I have two HP color
>printers. It happens on each no matter what type of
>application I use to print. Here's a new wrinkle: when I
>print from another computer on my lan, it prints without
>a problem. I am wondering if it has to do with the print
>manager, buffer size, work size, speed of USB, etc. Do
>you have anything similar?
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Cari \(MS-MVP\)
January 10th 04, 10:53 AM
I've only seen this on an HP PC using a parallel port - which has not been
set to EPP in the BIOS or on using a USB port when the PSU in the HP PC is
by far inadequate for the PC.

Does this apply to you?

Cari
www.coribright.com

"Carlitos" > wrote in message
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> Hi there, I'm having exactly the same problem, have you
> guys found any solutions?
> thanks a million
>

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