Printing Problems, issue with print jobs

Dear Sirs,

I have this issue with print jobs. and thought I could find out how to get around it. I have had the problem with both using the parallel cable and also printing using the USB. Printer is plugged into one of my PC's on my small 2 pc network and then shared out. Seems to work fine until you realize you send something to it you didn't mean to....then its hard to get the printer back working properly again. Power it off....don't see any printer queues showing any active jobs...but now the printer starts printing sheet of on line garble text....Is there some file or somewhere I can clean out the port ...If I leave the printer off and then turn it on...and send to it ...it just sits there looking stupid!!! Not sure how to get it back printing again...Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks....Operating with Windows XP Pro. Thanks much!!!

JD

 

Remove the printer from the network share first and then from the PC that has the printer attached.

Get the latest drivers available for the printer and reinstall it. USB is faster and should be fine.

Share the printer again.

From here on, I'm sorta guessing (I'm on a domain PC now and can't test a workgroup) but this should work. You want to avoid putting the printer drivers on the network PC that is sharing it. XP-pro is designed to use drivers from the print server for all NT systems that share it (so NT4/2K/XP).

On the network PC,
- if you run classic mode start menu, start~search~find printers
- if you run XP's default (just called start menu), start~search~printers, computers, or people~a printer on the network

When it finds the device and displays it for you, double-click on the printer and it should install using the master driver set rather than any local drivers. If it asks, say to use the ones from the master set.

Moving this to the networking section.