vetteboy
06-12-2005, 10:41 PM
hi, ive been trying to figure this one out for some time, and its got me pulling my hair out! heres the background story / timetable:
i bought the printer used off ebay, page count supposedly low 5,000's, pretty sure looking back that that count is false, came with 6mb of ram, PS, jetdirect
gave it a full cleaning before starting it up, worked fine, printed about 400 pages over 2 weeks
got a 32mb memory upgrade, installed it, still worked fine for another 50 pages or so
until now it was running on a windows 2000 laptop via paralell cable, and it was shared on the network, i could print successfully from a network computer or the laptop. at this point i moved the printer into the next room and hooked it up to a win xp pro desktop, and tried to print something, all that came out was a page with one line of print at the top, all garbled up, text, numbers and symbols. from now on anything i try printing on the printer comes out like that, it is generally random, ive tried 4 different computers, different cables, messed with different memory combinations, cold resetting it a couple times, messed with every concievable setting in the printer- same result.
now the really strange part- it prints self test pages from the control panel fine.
OH!, forgot to mention one other strange thing- prolly the key thing too- before it started printing garbage if i printed something it would start printing immeadetly- now i print something on the computer, the printer shows ***processing*** then goes back to ready, and flashes DATA RECIEVED every few seconds, and i have to press GO for it to start printing then it will show ***processing*** again and then it will start printing
thanks in advance for any ideas y'all might have, because im completely lost
-Jim
i bought the printer used off ebay, page count supposedly low 5,000's, pretty sure looking back that that count is false, came with 6mb of ram, PS, jetdirect
gave it a full cleaning before starting it up, worked fine, printed about 400 pages over 2 weeks
got a 32mb memory upgrade, installed it, still worked fine for another 50 pages or so
until now it was running on a windows 2000 laptop via paralell cable, and it was shared on the network, i could print successfully from a network computer or the laptop. at this point i moved the printer into the next room and hooked it up to a win xp pro desktop, and tried to print something, all that came out was a page with one line of print at the top, all garbled up, text, numbers and symbols. from now on anything i try printing on the printer comes out like that, it is generally random, ive tried 4 different computers, different cables, messed with different memory combinations, cold resetting it a couple times, messed with every concievable setting in the printer- same result.
now the really strange part- it prints self test pages from the control panel fine.
OH!, forgot to mention one other strange thing- prolly the key thing too- before it started printing garbage if i printed something it would start printing immeadetly- now i print something on the computer, the printer shows ***processing*** then goes back to ready, and flashes DATA RECIEVED every few seconds, and i have to press GO for it to start printing then it will show ***processing*** again and then it will start printing
thanks in advance for any ideas y'all might have, because im completely lost
-Jim