HP 870Cxi Crashes every time arround [42] of this HTML

[Selthek]

Hi All,

I have made a stange experience with printing this HTML document,
it is crashing every time one my printer HP 870Cxi on every browser
(Mozilla, M$IE) under different operating systems (W2K and GNU/Linux):

http://www.andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Texts/frontier.html


I'm mostly interessted !!! why this crash occurs !!! as I'm a little
familiar with HTML and found only minior errors in the page!


If someone else would try to print it with an HP DeskJet 870 or so it
would be interesting when you would get it without stack there on the
page paragraph [42].

Thanks for your help! Jan

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[DrZonk]

Hi All,

I have made a stange experience with printing this HTML document,
it is crashing every time one my printer HP 870Cxi on every browser
(Mozilla, M$IE) under different operating systems (W2K and GNU/Linux):

http://www.andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Texts/frontier.html

Try leaving your question in the comp.sys.hp.hardware newsgroup
as you will get a better answer.

DrZonk

 

[Rus]

I had the 870Cxi for several years. Good printer. Replaced it with a 6122
only because I needed better quality color raster graphics.

I'm thinking your problem may have developed because the printer crashes
trying to do a font or graphic as a "true type font" that isn't in the
firmware.

In Windows, the HP driver installs a hidden configuration utility. This
utility is a tool for modifying an *.ini file used by the driver.

I don't remember the exact file name. Do a hard drive search for *hp*.* and
it will be in there somewhere. The file name, as I remember, had "cfg" in
the file name. In other words, the utility will be something like:
hp8cfg.exe.

With that utility, you can tell the driver to ignore "true type fonts" and
tell it to print "text as graphics." Maybe this will help. There are other
configuration settings in there also that might help you.

As far as Linux goes, I'm not that familiar with the CUPS driver. I know
that the CUPS driver worked well on my computer for the 870Cxi. I don't
know if the coders offer this same type of configuration utility with the
RPM for CUPS. Maybe there is some similar method for modifying the driver
in CUPS?

Good luck.

//rus//

 

[Selthek]

Hello Rus,

Thank you very much for your help!

Regards, Jan