lexmark printer and win. xp

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theresa

Am having a very difficult time getting my printer to
work with xp. I'm getting spooler sub system app
encountered a problem and needs to close error.....I am
trying everything and nothing seems to be helping me
yet. can anyone offer a suggestion? Once I uninstall
and reinstall the driver, the ass a new hardware wizard
tells me it cannot complete the setup and my hardware
will have problems. An RPC(?) error ? Can someone help,
before I throw my printer out the window.....not really
but you get the point. Very frustrating!!!!!
 
What kind of Lexmark are you using?
Lexmarrks have trouble with XP.
Follow these instructions that have been posted previously in this
newsgroup
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After a clean un-install, which hopefully you've done (if not read
this http://members.shaw.ca/bsanders/CleanPrinterDrivers.htm. ) Then,
check to make sure the USB port is powered
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;822968&Product=winxp
Download the driver for win XP
http://downloads.lexmark.com/cgi-perl/downloads.cgi

Follow the instructions to the letter. Do everything exactly as
directed, especially with disconnecting and reconnexcting the USB
cable. Then read this next article and change the settings and see
what you get:

*<[email protected]> posted on 4/21/04
*Lexmark suggested that I change the print processor to WinPrint and
*set the default data type to NT EMF 1.008
*the world is a much better place. not only are jobs deleted from the
*spool but they also go to the printer faster (because not as large)
*Perhaps I may have gotten to this on my own but I've simply never had
*to deal with print spool issues so I've never investigated processor
*and data types - I can't remember the last time I even looked at
these
*settings. Ah well, more wisdom for me I guess.

This is where you do the trial and error thing

*I have an X83. I hadn't been able to print for 2 weeks. I opened
*printers and faxes, right-clicked on Lexmark X83, properties, clicked
*the advanced tab, clicked Print Processor, changed the Print
Processor
*to WinPrint and tried the default data type NT EMF 1.008: nothing
*happened. That was good because nothing froze, no error messages.
So
*I tried 1.007, and again nothing happened when I tried to print a
test
*page from the General tab. But oh Boy! When I entered NT EMF 1.006
*and hit print test page from the General tab, this old X83 started
*printing like nobody's biznuss.
 
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