Stange print job re-direction

Ok got a strange one here. We have a SBS 5.1 server with queue based
printing. I recently installed a brand new HP Laserjet 2430dtn and used the
included HP cd for network installation. So the printer does not use the
Netware queue for print jobs but the HP networking utility only for the
people who need access to this printer. Long story as to why I didn't set
this up on the Netware queues but I was having major problems getting that
set up, hence the HP networking wizard. Now, a queue based printer that has
been on our network for years will no longer print, anything sent to that
printer now ends up on the brand new HP 2430dtn even if the user printing
never had the drivers/utilities installed for that new printer. I can't for
the life of me figure out why this is happening. My initial thought was
maybe the IP adress was the same for both printers so I changed the IP
address of the newly installed printer. No luck with that.
Any ideas? Totally confused by this one.
Thanks,
Tom

Strange, I checked the JetDirect settings via the http interface and there
was no queue or server specified so I just disabled IPX and the print jobs
no longer redirect themselves to the wrong printer. All print jobs go where
they are supposed to.
Thanks,
Tom
"Peter Kuo" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]..
> The only way a JetDirect can grab a job off a queue is that its config
> is set up to ... so, I'd start by looking at the new printer's config
> setup ..
>
> --
>
>
> Peter
> eDirectory Rules!

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This discussion posting may or may not have some relevance to my previous posting, CS4 : memory leak errors (?) in Os X console log
I am working on a clients workstation and they are having a few problems. Specific hardware and software details are at the bottom of this posting.
THE PROBLEM
The problem is that I can not seem to print from CS4. The problem seems to be specifically Adobe CS4 related as I will explain below.
From the end user perspective, the CS4 suite appears to function normally with one exception - CS4 will not print. In the below example, I am referring to mainly Adobe Acrobat CS4 and InDesign CS4 as these are the programs that they use the most. The artist can still work with all the CS4 applications - opening new or existing indesign/acrobat documents, adding text, import, export, create pdfs, saving to same name or new name, etc... but they can't print out to a printer (Fuji Xerox c2255). For example, using InDesign, the artist can open an existing Indesign document and make changes to the Indesign document. She can save the document using the same name or a new name, but when she attempts to print the Indesign document, the document will not printed. If she saves the file as a pdf and using Acrobat to open the pdf and attempts to print the document, it will not print. BUT, if she uses preview to open the document and attempts to print, then it WILL print.
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PRINTER or PRINTER DRIVER
I have installed and uninstalled the printer driver half a dozen times. I have source the driver from different locations (US, Asia and Australia). In all three cases,the Fuji Xerox printer drivers look identical (I've opened them up in text edit). Every other application, on the Mac, appears to access the printer without any problems -Office 2008 ( Word, Excel), Preview, Text Edit, Text Wrangler, Mail, etc can all address the printer and print to the printer without any problems. Using any of these programmes, I can access all the functionality of the printer (A4 in Tray 1, A3 in Tray 2, Levels of the inks, etc) via the driver. When I installed the generic printer drive, I have no access to any of the Fuji Xerox Printer functionality. This leads me to think that the Fuji Xerox printer driver is not the problem.
Interestingly, using Apple's Preview, I can print any existing Acrobat documents without any problems - in either A4 or A3. However, if I attempt to print the SAME Acrobat document from Acrobat CS4, it will not print.
USE 'PRINTER DRIVER' option rather then choosing paper size.
I read in another posting, in the Adobe forum, of a similar problem with Duplex printing - if the the paper size is manually set (A3/A4) in the 'print document options', printers do not print duplex. The answer seemed to be instead of manually choosing the paper size (A4/A3), allow CS4 to determine the paper size. So, in the 'print document' dialog option, one should choose 'use printer driver' instead of specifying A3 or A4. An explanation suggested that the print engine refers to the printer driver to find out what options are availible and then CS4 chooses what size it wants to send the print job to. Forcing CS4 seems to stop duplex printing from working.
I will look at this suggestion next week when I return to the site.
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I have since been informed that a staff member had (recently) updated all the documents to CS4 via INX. I wonder if this anything to do with the problems ? Unfortunately, I don't have any 'old' documents to test with. I wonder if the conversion process had 'modified' the pdf wrapper in some way ? I have tested this in the following manner - I opened a 'updated' CS4 document in Indesign CS4. If I try to print straight out of CS4, then the above problem occurs (i.e. the document will not print as descibed above). BUT, if I copy all the contents - from the updated CS4 document - and paste the contents directly into a NEWLY created document, then it WILL print.
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I have tried printing an existing CS4 document file with a freshly installed CS4 suite - directly from the media file (will not print). And I have attempted to print a CS4 document file after applying all updates (will not print) Neither approach improves the situation.
USE CS3
This has been considered but as the client(s) have already done the conversion of all their documents to the CS4 format using INX, then they are really committed to working with CS4. What I am attempting to do at this time is to find out WHY CS4 is doing what it is doing, and if there is a fix to this problem. If there is no fix, then I know I should use a different approach.
I am posting this message in the hope that someone may have already come across this problem or perhaps may be able to spot something that I have overlooked. This problem has really got me stumped - I have had experience with Adobes products since Photoshop 1.0 (1990s / Pre-CS1) but never had a problem as annoying or time consuming as this one - this is a dousy. I have lodged a case number with Adobe Technical Support.
Thank you for taking the time to read this longish posting. I would be most grateful for any feedback solutions, or suggestions.
Have a wonderful weekend.
Thank you,
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MACINTOSH MODEL (Intel) 8 core - new model Mac Pro; just 1 month old.
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Model Identifier: MacPro4,1
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Total Number Of Cores: 8
L2 Cache (per core): 256 KB
L3 Cache (per processor): 8 MB
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SMC Version (system): 1.39f5
SMC Version (processor tray): 1.39f5
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I have a friend who asked for help in troubleshooting a problem with his printer. His printer is a brand new HP Officejet 6600 sitting near his computer and is on his wifi network. He can not print to it wirelessly from his iMac running Lion, but his wife can print wirelessly to it from another room on her iMac. He can print using USB, though, but he prefers wireless because of the wiring situation in this room. Plus, he bought for wireless printing.
When I got there I checked his System Preferences:Print & Fax and confirmed that his printer was installed and had the green idle light showing ready for a print job. I tried to print and everything looked normal and showed that the job was sent to the printer and was 100% completed but the printer never responded. I tried it from his wife's computer and confirmed that she was able to print a page with no problem. I brought my MBP and joined his wifi network and added his printer and was also able to print.
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LilyLC, hold on to your chair you will not believe what happened today. Bear with me while I give you all the details but you will want to read the entire story.
First, to answer your question in the first paragraph of that last post, his wife's printer is connected to his wifi and is using the driver installed by Apple and has been updated on the same date as his computer that I gave earlier. She can print to her printer and so can he. After the troubleshooting steps I have taken and took today I agree with your assessment about an intermittent issue with the printer, too, but let me tell you what I did today.
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I was getting a little pressed for time today and had time to try one more thing, so I decided to forgo the new Location setup until tomorrow and instead chose to plug his printer directly into the Airport Extreme via USB and see what happened. I deleted the IP driver and clicked the + to add the installed driver and was presented with an HP Officejet 6600 on the top line and lower down under "Nearby Printers" found an HP Officejet 6600 series [XXXXXX] and under that HP Officejet 6600 Fax.
I chose the first driver and installed and tried to print and was successful. However, the scan function was not available. So I deleted that driver and chose the second one. I noticed immediately that the scan function was available. Thinking I might have something I tried to print and was unsuccessful. Mmm...printing works with the first driver but not the second and scan works for the second but not the first. What's with THAT?
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I recommended that he bring the printer back and exchange it for another printer. He agreed and immediately boxed it up and left for the store. I returned home to more friendlier surroundings.
Here's where it gets interesting, and it helps to know that my friend is in his mid-eighties. About an hour later he calls and tells me he's sitting in the parking lot of Office Depot. He tells me that when he was in the store discussing with Customer Service about an exchange it dawned on him out of the blue that he DIDN'T NEED TWO PRINTERS!! He said that if he could print to his wife's computer today then he could print to it from now on. I was speechless!!! I told him I asked him at the beginning of all this why he had to have two printers, and at that time he said "trust me, we need two printers". Ok. He tells me he has no idea why he didn't realize that wifi worked differently than cable. He thinks that maybe since his older two printers were each connected to his and his wife's computer these newer computers operated the same way too. But he admits to me that he was the one who set the printers up on his wifi network, so why he didn't realize that only one printer was necessary with wifi he didn't know. He was embarrassed. He admitted to me that technology is very difficult for him to understand. No kidding!!!
I didn't need to remind him how much time had been spent on this problem because he was quick to apologize and was very sorry for taking up so much of my time, and he really appreciated the effort. I told him I didn't mind.
And I really didn't, because I learned so much from this experience by following your suggestions, LilyLC. I never knew how to set up a printer using its IP address, and the protocols to use, and I never knew how to add new Locations in the Network pane and why it might be useful. You also got me to considering other troubleshooting ideas I wouldn't have thought of otherwise. So maybe my friend and I aren't that different after all.
I really appreciate all the suggestions, links, and ideas you offered during this effort, LilyLC. I wish I could have determined the cause of the problem but, not knowing the inner workings of these devices, I can only assume that it had to have been the printer.
I bet I get a call from my friend a week from now saying that he just bought a second printer for his room because his knees can't take the walking from his room to his wife's room to get all of his printouts. All I can say is THAT printer better work.
Thanks again, LilyLC, for all your time and help. It was really appreciated!

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I have, perhaps, the most frustrating problem on the planet. In my home network, I have a HP Color LaserJet 2600n connected to my main PC, with 2 other PC's on the network. All 3 run Windows 7. Printing from my main PC works fine, but if I try to print over the network, the print job always gets stuck in the queue. I can see it stuck in the queue on my main PC, but I can't do anything about it. I can't delete it, nothing. If I restart the spooler, then it magically prints and clears the queue, but it's annoying to have to do that all the time. I've reinstalled the drivers several times to no avail. Tips?
RPGillespie

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Rebooting several times a day is getting old.

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I am running Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard. I have a Printer HP LaserJet P4015n set up as a network printer thru DNS. The printer is working fine all print job will come
out. Each time I send a print job to stays in the queue with the Status "Sent to printer". If I send another print job to the printer it will print out however the job will stay in the queue. I have added the printer to a user’s machine and they were
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After about 5 - 10min of the jobs are sitting the in the queue they delete themselves.
Does anyone know of anything I can do about this?

Hi,
Thanks for the post.
Here is something I need to confirm:
1. Does this issue occur with other network printers?
2. Does this issue occur when printing a text file?
If this issue just occurs with HP LaserJet P4015n, it is caused by the specific printer driver.
Now please perform the following steps to troubleshoot this issue.
Clear spool file
1. Stop the spooler by doing the following:
a. Click Start , Settings , Control Panel , Administrative Tools , then Services .
b. Scroll down the list of services for the Print Spooler.
c. Right click Print Spooler and click Stop .
2. Delete the spool files
a. Open My Computer.
b. Go to C:\WINDOWS\system32\spool\PRINTERS\ .
c. Delete all of the files inside of this folder.
3. Restart the spooler.
a. Click Start , Settings , Control Panel , Administrative Tools , then Services
b. Scroll down the list of services for the Print Spooler.
c. Right click the Print Spooler and click Start.
Change the spooling format
Set the spooling format to RAW, and then try to print directly to the printer instead of spooling the print job. To do this:
          a.       Click "Start", point to "Settings", and then click "Printers".
          b.       Right-click the printer that you are using, and then click "Properties".
          c.       In the Advanced tab, click "Print Processor".
          d.       Set the default "Data type" to "RAW" for both "WinPrint" and "ModPrint".
          f.        Click "OK", click "OK" again, and then close the Printers dialog box.
Does it work?
Hope this helps.
Miles
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Hi , and welcome to the HP Forums! I see you are experiencing print speed issues. I would like to help! Do you have the same issues when making a copy, as opposed to a print? I'd recommend starting with a power reset. Disconnect the power cord from the printer and the power outlet, then wait 60 seconds. After 60 seconds, plug the printer back in. Ensure you plug the printer directly to a wall outlet. Make sure to bypass any sort of surge protector or power bar.
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Mr or Ms Light,
No, I don't think it's an OS problem. Printing on the Mac is nightmarishly complicated (under the hood), and HP installs its own system that bypasses the default FreeBSD system. This is an occasional problem with my HP 5550. HP claims to have good user support.
I've had, regularly, the exact symptoms. I've a migraine now, so I can't remember what I do about it. But it would be typical of me to press the printer button off, then clear the queue, then turn on the printer and have it remove the paper still in it. If needed, I might restart the computer.
As for the cause, for the last 10 minutes I've been asking my 4-year old granddaughter, but she's not in the mood to tell me. However, she often prints pictures of Elmo off the internet to color, and she captures parts of screens and prints them. This is with the USB cable disconnected; and its when I reconnect it, the exact symptoms you describe occur.
Try the above, and I may be able to give you a definitive answer later, after my granddaughter's nap.
Bruce

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I apologize for the delay in responding to you. I was on the road all day yesterday.
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I have the following which sends a print file to a specific printer. It works perfectly in Windows 7, but not in Windows 8. The print job shows in the print queue until the print job is closed. Then the print job literally vanishes from the print
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using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.IO;
using System.Printing;
namespace PrinterLib
public static class PrintToSpooler
public static string SendFileToPrinter(string szPrinterName, string szFileName, string docName)
try
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//PrintQueue defaultPrintQueue = LocalPrintServer.GetDefaultPrintQueue();
//PrintQueue mypq = new PrintServer().GetPrintQueue(szPrinterName);
//using (var printq = defaultPrintQueue)
using (var printq = new PrintServer().GetPrintQueue(szPrinterName))
using (PrintSystemJobInfo job = printq.AddJob(docName))
using (var memoryStream = new MemoryStream())
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fs.Close();
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catch (Exception ex)
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Hello folks,
I have been facing the same problem until right now. All above suggested methods failed (as it did for Jeff0123) . But after long research on that issue I think I found the reason (but no proper solution yet).
MS Windows 8 and 2012 use a new printer driver generation based on XPS. Which means drivers like "generic text-only" won't work properly depending on the method the data is sent to the printer. In my case the
same way like Jeff0123 tried to access the printers.
See link http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2779300
One solution might be to use API calls. I have also found a site which shows an example project for thermal slip printing. The VB.NET source code there features a wrapper class for all API calls. The functions you find behave pretty similar to the ones of
the posted C# code example of Jeff0123. I did a small test so far and for my needs that works fine.
Although the page is in German you can find the mentioned class by searching for "Public
Class RawPrinter". Beside the comments the class methods are written in English. You find the class here: http://www.vbarchiv.net/tipps/tipp_2375-kassenbon-drucker-mit-vbnet-oder-c-per-esc-pos-befehle-ansprechen.html
Hope that might help for at least a few of you. So long!

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I have a acer 5542 running windows 7 (64bit), connected wirelessly to an Orange Livebox hub, to which my HP PSC 1350 printer is connected (via USB cable) therefore using the Livebox as a USB printer server. This configuration has worked very well for my 2 XP laptops for the past year or two. I set up the printer on the windows 7 laptop by connecting it directly, via the USB cable, letting windows install it, and download the latest drivers, (although HP say they have no specific 64bit drivers for this printer, but the drivers they have, and that windows downloaded, work fine!) then i changed the port to the livebox ip address.
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I have posted on microsoft answers forums, but the one answer i have recieved (re installing everything) did not solve the problem. Although i am not too savvy on computers, i kind of get the feeling it is a spooling issue. (not processing or holding onto the last part of a print file! But its only a feeling!)
any help would be very much appreciated

Hi there,
I understand you're looking for drivers for your PSC 1210 on Windows 7. I will certainly do my best to guide you in this issue.
At this time there are no HP drivers available for this printer for Windows 7. You can still use the printer with Windows 7, you will just have to use the drivers available within Windows 7. That document will walk you through what you need to do in order to get printing again, and will also show you how to scan with this Windows driver.
Hope this helps, have a great day!!
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