Jerry Paquette wrote:
> I have an old HP Deskjet 680C printer attached to my main home machine
> (a high-end PIV tower running XP Pro). The printer worked fine until
> early January. It still works fine directly off the LPT port on my
> laptop (same cable!) with identical printer configuration settings
> (I've compared these several times). From the tower, however, (and
> from the laptop when using a network connection through the tower) the
> Deskjet now makes strange grinding and clunking noises on many (but
> not all) print jobs from various software and then either prints
> blank pages or garbage or some combination thereof. Other networked
> printers, however, print perfectly and consistently from the tower.
>
> I've tried reinstalling the printer on the tower numerous times, each
> time choosing to reinstall the driver but to no avail. The only
> change I recall making in the system at about the time this problem
> began was to install a new LCD monitor and PivotPro so I could edit
> and do page layout portrait-wise. It seems hard to believe the
> problem could be related to PivotPro.
>
> I have a ghost image of the system drive from just before Christmas
> but I've made a number of changes during February and I'm very
> reluctant to do a restore from that image--at least until I've
> exhausted EVERY possibility with regard to the printer.
>
> Any ideas????
I was under the impression that clunking, grinding, and other strange
noises were by design in older Deskjets. You might want to visit Cari's
MSMVP site for WinXP printing problems:
http://www.coribright.com/Windows/ The first thing to do is to
*completely* remove the printer and driver and then reinstall it
follower Cari's procedures. That at least will provide assurance that a
corrupted installation is not the source of the problems.
Q
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