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Printing problems to Network Share Printer after SP2 upgrade
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I have recently installed Windows XP SP2 on 2 of our PC's. Since doing that, they are experiencing problems printing to an HP Color Laserjet 4500n printer which is shared on a PC running Windows 98 (really). They use Excel 2003 and when they try to send a print job to the 4500 printer, it takes about a minute to switch printers. They can print one job, but when trying to send the 2nd job, Excel stops responding. We have found out by trial and error that if you go to Services and stop, then re-start the Print Spooler everything works "fast" for one print job. I finally gave up and un-installed SP2 from one of the PC's because she really has to be able to print to the 4500 printer, and everything is working great. No problems printing to 4500. One thing, just for info, we have some HP LJ 2200 shared printers (on Windows 98 PC's) and these 2 updated PC's have no problems when printing to those. We also have some new PC's with Windows XP Pro that came with SP1. Before updating them to SP2 I was able to print to the 4500 with no problems. I know that SP2 is new and that you guys are working on the bugs, but does anyone have any info on this problem? I have seen posts on the web for the same issue, but no answers. Any help would be appreciated because we'd really like to be able to take advantage of the great features in SP2. Thanks, Sandy M |
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Printing problems to Network Share Printer after SP2 upgrade
Sandy:
We have experienced the exact same problem on our peer-to-peer networks but with our large Minolta document center which has an on-board printer server. Other printers which are slaved off of other machines and shared still work but the Minolta requires opening the printer properties and printing a test page then it will printer most of the time. Otherwise, the print jobs just go into space. No machines other than those upgraded to XP SP2 fail. Failure comes immediately after upgrade. Have you heard of, or found, a solution yet? Robert "Sandy M" wrote: Hi, I have recently installed Windows XP SP2 on 2 of our PC's. Since doing that, they are experiencing problems printing to an HP Color Laserjet 4500n printer which is shared on a PC running Windows 98 (really). They use Excel 2003 and when they try to send a print job to the 4500 printer, it takes about a minute to switch printers. They can print one job, but when trying to send the 2nd job, Excel stops responding. We have found out by trial and error that if you go to Services and stop, then re-start the Print Spooler everything works "fast" for one print job. I finally gave up and un-installed SP2 from one of the PC's because she really has to be able to print to the 4500 printer, and everything is working great. No problems printing to 4500. One thing, just for info, we have some HP LJ 2200 shared printers (on Windows 98 PC's) and these 2 updated PC's have no problems when printing to those. We also have some new PC's with Windows XP Pro that came with SP1. Before updating them to SP2 I was able to print to the 4500 with no problems. I know that SP2 is new and that you guys are working on the bugs, but does anyone have any info on this problem? I have seen posts on the web for the same issue, but no answers. Any help would be appreciated because we'd really like to be able to take advantage of the great features in SP2. Thanks, Sandy M |
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Printing problems to Network Share Printer after SP2 upgrade
Sandy:
We have experienced the exact same problem on our peer-to-peer networks but with our large Minolta document center which has an on-board printer server. Other printers which are slaved off of other machines and shared still work but the Minolta requires opening the printer properties and printing a test page then it will printer most of the time. Otherwise, the print jobs just go into space. No machines other than those upgraded to XP SP2 fail. Failure comes immediately after upgrade. Have you heard of, or found, a solution yet? Robert "Sandy M" wrote: Hi, I have recently installed Windows XP SP2 on 2 of our PC's. Since doing that, they are experiencing problems printing to an HP Color Laserjet 4500n printer which is shared on a PC running Windows 98 (really). They use Excel 2003 and when they try to send a print job to the 4500 printer, it takes about a minute to switch printers. They can print one job, but when trying to send the 2nd job, Excel stops responding. We have found out by trial and error that if you go to Services and stop, then re-start the Print Spooler everything works "fast" for one print job. I finally gave up and un-installed SP2 from one of the PC's because she really has to be able to print to the 4500 printer, and everything is working great. No problems printing to 4500. One thing, just for info, we have some HP LJ 2200 shared printers (on Windows 98 PC's) and these 2 updated PC's have no problems when printing to those. We also have some new PC's with Windows XP Pro that came with SP1. Before updating them to SP2 I was able to print to the 4500 with no problems. I know that SP2 is new and that you guys are working on the bugs, but does anyone have any info on this problem? I have seen posts on the web for the same issue, but no answers. Any help would be appreciated because we'd really like to be able to take advantage of the great features in SP2. Thanks, Sandy M |
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