Printing from laptop at home and at the office

[Brutus Hallibaster]

Hello,

Annoying printing problem here:

My boss uses a Dell Inspiron laptop, docked either at home or at the
office, running WinXP. At home, he's got an HP printer, and we
network to an HP Laserjet 4000 PS at the office. Proper drivers are
installed for each printer.

He gets major print problems when he creates a document on his laptop
at home, and then tries to print at the office -- and a similar
problem when documents are created at the office, and he attempts to
print at home.

It appears that, after being connected to the network at the office
for some time (say, an hour or so) he can print fine. I believe the
same "adjustment period" occurs when he returns home and tries to
print.

Attempted fixes:

1. Re-setting the default printer in WinXP;
2. Re-saving the document before printing;

Is there any known work-around for this? I'd appreciate any
wisdom-from-experience.
TIA,
Brutus

 

[Shootist]

I use my laptop, XP Home, at home and at work and do not have this problem.
At home I have 3 PC's, 1 Desktop 2 laptops. Also have 2 printers, 1
connected to the desktop and 1 connected to my old laptop. At work we have 5
printers. 1 Encad plotter networked, 1 HP LJ 5000 networked, 1 Epson color
connected to a XP pro desktop, another HP LJ 2300?? connected to a XP Pro
desktop and a HP Inkjet color connected to my work desktop. I have no
problem printing to any of the printers at work from my laptop and no
problem printing at home to my home printers. I would look at a driver
problem/conflict.

 

[DMMi]

Hello,

Annoying printing problem here:

My boss uses a Dell Inspiron laptop, docked either at home or at the
office, running WinXP. At home, he's got an HP printer, and we
network to an HP Laserjet 4000 PS at the office. Proper drivers are
installed for each printer.

He gets major print problems when he creates a document on his laptop
at home, and then tries to print at the office -- and a similar
problem when documents are created at the office, and he attempts to
print at home.

It appears that, after being connected to the network at the office
for some time (say, an hour or so) he can print fine. I believe the
same "adjustment period" occurs when he returns home and tries to
print.

Attempted fixes:

1. Re-setting the default printer in WinXP;
2. Re-saving the document before printing;

Is there any known work-around for this? I'd appreciate any
wisdom-from-experience.
TIA,
Brutus

Just a guess.

When your boss is have problems printing, in the application being used
check File, Print to ensure that the application has picked up the current
default printer.

Don

 

[Ron Sommer]

Try using File, Print and select the correct printer.