Another Laserjet 4 with WinXP issue

[Steve S]

My company recently purchased 10 HP LaserJet 4 Printers. Functionally
they all print internal test prints. When I connect them up to various
Dell systems in our office, Windows XP Pro detects the printers, and
installs them. However, when we try a test print, nothing is printed. I
have tried several Computers and had the same result. I have another
Dell/WinXP Pro system where it installs and runs correctly.

So far I have tried:
1. Re-installing the driver.
2. Updating the drivers from HP.
3. Tried each of the Parallel port settings in the BIOS. (ECP, EPP,
PS/2, & AT). The only variance here is when I set it to AT and
rebooted, the test print printed when Windows came up (it was left in
the queue). But then nothing else printed.
4. Installed the Windows updates.

I have followed as many of the Usenet options as I could find.

Any info would be great.
Steve

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

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| My company recently purchased 10 HP LaserJet 4 Printers. Functionally
| they all print internal test prints. When I connect them up to various
| Dell systems in our office, Windows XP Pro detects the printers, and
| installs them. However, when we try a test print, nothing is printed. I
| have tried several Computers and had the same result. I have another
| Dell/WinXP Pro system where it installs and runs correctly.
|
| So far I have tried:
| 1. Re-installing the driver.
| 2. Updating the drivers from HP.
| 3. Tried each of the Parallel port settings in the BIOS. (ECP, EPP,
| PS/2, & AT). The only variance here is when I set it to AT and
| rebooted, the test print printed when Windows came up (it was left in
| the queue). But then nothing else printed.
| 4. Installed the Windows updates.
|
| I have followed as many of the Usenet options as I could find.
|
| Any info would be great.
| Steve