Hp4200 questions

[smurf]

Hi, I bought a used hp4200 some time ago and it works great, Ive added a duplexer and extra paper tray, and its a great part of my home office equipment which consists of 3 hp printers and 5 networked pcs.

I want to hook up the 4200 on the network. I put in an old 600n jetdirect card which i had, and I can see the card and access it through the ip address. Is the 600n card(3113 from memory) ok to leave in the printer or am I facing doom ?

Also when accessing the printer config pages which I hadnt done for ages, it reminded me that the page counter has not moved from when I purchased it. I might be suspicious, but I am wondering if some devious person has tampered with the counter before I bought it??? Some years back I was playing with a laserjet1200 with a paper problem and I remember a warning about not exiting the PCL code correctly when changing something to do with paper size? I have reset the printer. Is there a way to access and then exit the config, or else to start the counter working again?

Thanks

[redcow]

If the JetDirect works, keep using it. Just remember that it is old.
Run the config again. Then run paper path test, 10 sheets. Check the page count. It should have incremented by 10. Yes, you can change the page count, but I don't know of any way to stop it from counting.

[smurf]

If the JetDirect works, keep using it. Just remember that it is old.
Run the config again. Then run paper path test, 10 sheets. Check the page count. It should have incremented by 10. Yes, you can change the page count, but I don't know of any way to stop it from counting.

Hi Redcow. If I print pages in config menu the page numbers increase, but when I exit the config menu, and go in later it goes back to the page count before I print more pages? By the way I should have said PJL instead of PCL earlier.

[cs_steve]

It's not an error -- Page count on this model always rounds DOWN to the nearest 10.

It won't permanently register that you printed any pages if you print a small run of pages and then shut the power off. My guess is you print less than 10 pages per day, then power it off for the day. Page count won't move with that kind of printing.

[smurf]

It's not an error -- Page count on this model always rounds DOWN to the nearest 10.

It won't permanently register that you printed any pages if you print a small run of pages and then shut the power off. My guess is you print less than 10 pages per day, then power it off for the day. Page count won't move with that kind of printing.

Thanks cs_steve, You are obviously absolutely correct, even though I use the printer most days I do print in small batches, then switch off. Thanks again