Printer timeouts

[Joseph M. Newcomer]

I keep getting an annoying popup informing me that there has been an error printing. There
is no such error; I am printing a complex document, several hundred pages with many
photos, which takes a while to print. How can I stop this offensive popup from happening
(in general, I would like to kill off all these popups, since they never, ever convey
anything useful--for example, they tell me that I have unused desktop icons, which I think
is none of the operating system's concern. How I use my desktop is my business). But this
printer bug has the additional annoyance that it locks the popup start menu bar into
exposed position, which makes it hard to use the application it is now covering.

I should point out that the document takes about 50 minutes to print. The printer is
connected to the network, and is accessed using raw protocol on a TCP port. (None of my
several printers any longer have a parallel port connection; if parallel ports
disappeared from computers I would never notice).

So I need to either be able to change the spooler timeouts to be about 60 minutes, or
suppress the popups. Any solution that suppresses all popups forever is certainly
attractive. But I'll settle for a way to change the spooler timeouts.
joe

Joseph M. Newcomer [MVP]
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[Hound Dog]

I keep getting an annoying popup informing me that there has been an error printing. There
is no such error; I am printing a complex document, several hundred pages with many
photos, which takes a while to print. How can I stop this offensive popup from happening
(in general, I would like to kill off all these popups, since they never, ever convey
anything useful--for example, they tell me that I have unused desktop icons, which I think
is none of the operating system's concern. How I use my desktop is my business). But this
printer bug has the additional annoyance that it locks the popup start menu bar into
exposed position, which makes it hard to use the application it is now covering.

I should point out that the document takes about 50 minutes to print. The printer is
connected to the network, and is accessed using raw protocol on a TCP port. (None of my
several printers any longer have a parallel port connection; if parallel ports
disappeared from computers I would never notice).

So I need to either be able to change the spooler timeouts to be about 60 minutes, or
suppress the popups. Any solution that suppresses all popups forever is certainly
attractive. But I'll settle for a way to change the spooler timeouts.
joe

Joseph M. Newcomer [MVP]
email: (e-mail address removed)
Web: http://www.flounder.com
MVP Tips: http://www.flounder.com/mvp_tips.htm

Have not printed any really long files in quite a while, but when I did my
old dot matrix printer would time out several times. Found out the time outs
were done by the printer to keep the print head from getting too hot and
burning out.

Don't know if my laser jet printer would time out on long printing sessions,
but sort of doubt it.

Hound Dog

 

[Joseph M. Newcomer]

That's interesting. Thank you for sharing. However, my color laser printer does time out;
it takes a while to heat up from standby, and even with compressed, severely reduced
jpegs, with 3-4 photos per page at 600dpi it takes a while to ship and format the data for
each page. So your observation about a completely different printer in a completely
different context not timing out doesn't actually contribute to solving the problem of the
annoying popups and suppressing this timeout popup or all popups.
joe

Have not printed any really long files in quite a while, but when I did my
old dot matrix printer would time out several times. Found out the time outs
were done by the printer to keep the print head from getting too hot and
burning out.

Don't know if my laser jet printer would time out on long printing sessions,
but sort of doubt it.

Hound Dog

Joseph M. Newcomer [MVP]
email: (e-mail address removed)
Web: http://www.flounder.com
MVP Tips: http://www.flounder.com/mvp_tips.htm

 

[Hound Dog]

That's interesting. Thank you for sharing. However, my color laser printer does time out;
it takes a while to heat up from standby, and even with compressed, severely reduced
jpegs, with 3-4 photos per page at 600dpi it takes a while to ship and format the data for
each page. So your observation about a completely different printer in a completely
different context not timing out doesn't actually contribute to solving the problem of the
annoying popups and suppressing this timeout popup or all popups.
joe

Joseph M. Newcomer [MVP]
email: (e-mail address removed)
Web: http://www.flounder.com
MVP Tips: http://www.flounder.com/mvp_tips.htm

Well now! Maybe if you would dry your eyes and make it clear what printer
you are using, someone might be able to help you. However, don't count on
it. Someone with your attitude seldom gets help.

Hound Dog

 

[Joseph M. Newcomer]

It shouldn't matter what printer I'm using, if I'm getting gratuitous timeouts, I'm
getting timeouts. It wouldn't matter if it were a dot-matrix (which I have not owned since
1986); timeouts that produce popups are a design flaw, and I do not wish to be subjected
to design flaws like this. I want to make it go away.
joe

That's interesting. Thank you for sharing. However, my color laser printer does time out;
it takes a while to heat up from standby, and even with compressed, severely reduced
jpegs, with 3-4 photos per page at 600dpi it takes a while to ship and format the data for
each page. So your observation about a completely different printer in a completely
different context not timing out doesn't actually contribute to solving the problem of the
annoying popups and suppressing this timeout popup or all popups.
joe



Well now! Maybe if you would dry your eyes and make it clear what printer
you are using, someone might be able to help you. However, don't count on
it. Someone with your attitude seldom gets help.

Hound Dog

Joseph M. Newcomer [MVP]
email: (e-mail address removed)
Web: http://www.flounder.com
MVP Tips: http://www.flounder.com/mvp_tips.htm