Not printing to HP Laserjet 4 Plus from Windows XP

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Keith Snyder

I'm running a dual boot computer, Windows XP SP3 on one side, Fedora
Core 3 on the other.

Printing fails from the Windows side, but works fine from the Linux
side. So, it's not hardware. As an expedient I route printing from this
system to another computer on a home LAN. But I want to get printing fixed.

I tried reinstalling the HP Laserjet 4 Plus driver for XP, both from
www.downloads.com (CNET) and from HP. No luck.

Any ideas?

What about the driver for LPT1?
 
I'm running a dual boot computer, Windows XP SP3 on one side, Fedora
Core 3 on the other.

Printing fails from the Windows side, but works fine from the Linux
side. So, it's not hardware. As an expedient I route printing from this
system to another computer on a home LAN. But I want to get printing fixed.

I tried reinstalling the HP Laserjet 4 Plus driver for XP, both from
www.downloads.com (CNET) and from HP. No luck.
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Are you using the right driver? If you use the 4M Plus one, it won't
work unless you have the PostScript option.

FWIW, I can print to my LJ 4+ printers from XP, using the drivers
supplied with XP. No special LPT1 driver.
 
Keith Snyder said:
I'm running a dual boot computer, Windows XP SP3 on one side, Fedora
Core 3 on the other.

Printing fails from the Windows side, but works fine from the Linux
side.
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Define "fails".
So, it's not hardware. As an expedient I route printing from this
system to another computer on a home LAN. But I want to get printing fixed.

I tried reinstalling the HP Laserjet 4 Plus driver for XP, both from
www.downloads.com (CNET) and from HP. No luck.

Any ideas?

What about the driver for LPT1?
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If the printer is connected to the network, why would you use a parallel
port? For that matter, your printer might be set to only accept input
from Ethernet. The second part of these instructions tells how to set
up true network printing on Windows.

http://groups.google.com/group/comp.periphs.printers/msg/850d68c775d43f25
 
Bob said:
Are you using the right driver? If you use the 4M Plus one, it won't
work unless you have the PostScript option.

FWIW, I can print to my LJ 4+ printers from XP, using the drivers
supplied with XP. No special LPT1 driver.
Click to expand...

That's a possiblity, I might be trying the 4M driver, but I thought I
had Postscript option installed. Still, I'll check.

Failure to print was sudden with no obvious explanation. I turned the
machine over to my wife some time ago, and she uses it for email and web
browsing. I remain the family CTO, so she does no maintenance. She has
no admin privileges because her naive clicking on URLs worried me.

We shared the printer with a data switch. She got the hang of it. Then,
one day she could no longer print.

As an expedient, I set up her machine to print via LAN through my
machine. The printer is not on the LAN. It is connected by parallel port
to my machine.

But I'd still like to get her machine to print directly (via the data
switch) to the HP 4+.
 
We shared the printer with a data switch. She got the hang of it. Then,
one day she could no longer print.
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If it's a manual one, the LJ4s were notorious (AFAIR) for blowing up the
parallel interfce if used with one that was just a switch.
 
Bob Eager said:
If it's a manual one, the LJ4s were notorious (AFAIR) for blowing up the
parallel interfce if used with one that was just a switch.
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Aha! That would explain it. The data switch is manual.

Thanks.
 
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