Garbage sent to Laserwriter if too many jobs: printer or desktop?

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Mauricio

Have a HP laserwriter 5M printer here connected to a PC using
a usb-to-parallel cable. This setup has worked fine for the entire
last year even under heavy printing. A month ago the memory in the
computer was upgraded. Two weeks later we began to see an interesting
problem: if you print files one at a time, it works fine. But if you
print a bunch of jobs together, it will print pages with
stuff like

Error: undefined

OFFENDING COMMAND: 923

Stack: 2397

which probably means it is just garbage the PS processor in the
printer is trying to make sense out of. I connected the said printer
to my ubuntu laptop and just could not replicate the error, so I am
guessing the printer is ok. I also checked the Events and Errors page
in windows and saw there were a lot of events with ID 6004 around the
time these events happened; from what I understood, there might be a
driver issue or something like that. AFAIK, it has the latest XP
drivers for the said printer. Can anyone confirm my findings or,
perhaps offer more suggestions?
 
        Have a HP laserwriter 5M printer here connected to a PC using
a usb-to-parallel cable. This setup has worked fine for the entire
last year even under heavy printing. A month ago the memory in the
computer was upgraded. Two weeks later we began to see an interesting
problem: if you print files one at a time, it works fine. But if you
print a bunch of jobs together, it will print pages with
stuff like

Error: undefined

OFFENDING COMMAND: 923

Stack: 2397

which probably means it is just garbage the PS processor in the
printer is trying to make sense out of. I connected the said printer
to my ubuntu laptop and just could not replicate the error, so I am
guessing the printer is ok. I also checked the Events and Errors page
in windows and saw there were a lot of events with ID 6004 around the
time these events happened; from what I understood, there might be a
driver issue or something like that. AFAIK, it has the latest XP
drivers for the said printer. Can anyone confirm my findings or,
perhaps offer more suggestions?
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It needs to be noted that this printer was never designed to be
connected via a USB cable. This is the reason why you have added a USB
to Parallel cable. However, these USB to Parallel converting cables
are not all made the same. You might have to re-install these USB
drivers.
 
This will sound a bit off the wall--
There were some "speedup" patches made to the USB subsystems fairly
recently.
Try using a slower USB port, or a powered hub in between the USB port and
the USB/Parallel adapter.
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