Samsung ML-1210: Haven't seen this problem before

[SAM]

My wife has a new Compaq Presario F756NR running Vista Home Premium.
She has a Samsung ML-1210 laser printer that worked find under XP. I
installed the Vista Driver and when the install reached "Do you want
to print a test page?" I answered "yes." The printer "awoke" and the
data light on the printer began to flash but nothing printed.

I tried to print a Word document, the data light on the printer
flashed, and when I opened the printer window I could see that it had
received 64KB of nnnKB, then 128KB. But after that there was no
further movement until I got an error with no explanation.

After I flushed the print queue, and turned the printer off/on, I
created a very small text file with Notepad. This printed
successfully. But when I tried to print another Word document, I
experienced the same failure as previously.

Can anyone offer an explanation, or a clue?

Thanks very much.

 

[SAM]

My wife has a new Compaq Presario F756NR running Vista Home Premium.
She has a Samsung ML-1210 laser printer that worked find under XP. I
installed the Vista Driver and when the install reached "Do you want
to print a test page?" I answered "yes." The printer "awoke" and the
data light on the printer began to flash but nothing printed.

I tried to print a Word document, the data light on the printer
flashed, and when I opened the printer window I could see that it had
received 64KB of nnnKB, then 128KB. But after that there was no
further movement until I got an error with no explanation.

After I flushed the print queue, and turned the printer off/on, I
created a very small text file with Notepad. This printed
successfully. But when I tried to print another Word document, I
experienced the same failure as previously.

Can anyone offer an explanation, or a clue?

Thanks very much.

Replying to my own post...

I probably would have received solutions to this problem if I had
included what turned out to be the most pertinent piece of info. I
originally connected to printer to the laptop via a Parallel/USB
cable. This morning, I replaced that with a pure USB cable (and
installed the Samsung USB driver) and everything seems fine now.