Remote printing fails until print spooler is restarted

[Hector Balanzar]

Hello:

PC1 Windows XPSP3 with HP Laserjet 1020 (shared on LAN)
PC2 Windows XPSP1

Laserjet printer is connected by USB to PC1, shared over LAN and configured
in PC2.

The problem is that every time I send a printout from PC1 the document sent
is shown in the print pool but it is not printed until PC1 print spooler
service is restarted. I can print as many pages as needed from PC1, but if I
print even one single page from PC2, the print spooler service in PC1 fails
every next printout until it's restarted.
Any hints anyone?

Greetings
Hector

 

[Cari \(MS-MVP\)]

PC2 has corrupted drivers which are crashing the spooler. Uninstall and
reinstall the printer... correctly.

http://www.coribright.com/windows/Article_One.htm

BTW is there a valid reason why PC2 does not have all the SPs installed?

 

[Hector Balanzar]

Cari:

Thanks for your reply. I solved this long ago, but didn't reply until now. I
followed your procedure and uninstalled and reinstalled drivers and the
problem persisted.

The problem was that I was re-installing the new driver for the printer
found on the web site (HP Laserjet 1020). Once I removed manually the driver
and reinstalled the one on the CD it everything wen't fine. I hope someone
else will find this useful.

Greetings