More problems with HP 820cse

[pgluth1]

I posted last week about an HP 820cse (parellel) that printed very jittery
and added color on a b/w document - adding to the fuzziness. The problems
only occur on ONE XP Pro machine. This is what makes me scratch my head:

The printer works fine on a different XP pro machine.
The printer works fine on a 98se machine.
The self-tests within windows are perfect.
The self-tests from the printer alone are perfect.


I have reinstalled the drivers from two different xp disks and copied the
drivers from a different (working) xp machine.

I did a repair install of XP. (Though did not delete).
I did a repair install of MS-Word.

I ran spyware, antivirus software from Ad-aware, spybot S&D, spyware
doctor, and bazooka. Ran repair utilities reg-mechanic, reg-repair, and
tweaknow reg-cleaner. Ran tests with MS-anti-spyware and Avast! Uninstalled
all spyware, firewalls and anti-virus software except that from MS. Still
bad printing.

Tried "standard print" option for the port in the bios.

Anything that you can think up that might still be screwing up the printing
on ONLY ONE machine?

 

[George E. Cawthon]

I posted last week about an HP 820cse (parellel) that printed very jittery
and added color on a b/w document - adding to the fuzziness. The problems
only occur on ONE XP Pro machine. This is what makes me scratch my head:

The printer works fine on a different XP pro machine.
The printer works fine on a 98se machine.
The self-tests within windows are perfect.
The self-tests from the printer alone are perfect.


I have reinstalled the drivers from two different xp disks and copied the
drivers from a different (working) xp machine.

I did a repair install of XP. (Though did not delete).
I did a repair install of MS-Word.

I ran spyware, antivirus software from Ad-aware, spybot S&D, spyware
doctor, and bazooka. Ran repair utilities reg-mechanic, reg-repair, and
tweaknow reg-cleaner. Ran tests with MS-anti-spyware and Avast! Uninstalled
all spyware, firewalls and anti-virus software except that from MS. Still
bad printing.

Tried "standard print" option for the port in the bios.

Anything that you can think up that might still be screwing up the printing
on ONLY ONE machine?

Parallel cable, did you use a different cable on
the first computer or use the original cable with
a different computer?

Also could simply be the parallel port in the
original computer. You could try a different card
in the original computer.

 

[pgluth1]

Over the course of the last few weeks, I have posted everywhere I can think
of (including here, of course) questions about an old parallel HP printer
that prints jittery on only one XP pro machine. It stubbornly prints fine
on other XP and Win98 machines. I tried almost every suggestion, but a few
dozen of my own until I decided to do the ultimate: I reformatted the HD
and reinstalled everything from scratch.

Darned thing works perfectly now.

Oh well, I probably spent way too many hours bothering people about this,
but I still had interest in the problem - even though it would have been
cheaper to just toss the machine.

Thank you to all who replied - sometimes the easiest solution is not the
one that works best.