I believe the Zebra Printers use the plain text driver, which shouldn’t be really taxing....
Z Edward E. Ziots, CISSP, CISA, Security +, Network + Security Engineer Lifespan Organization ezi...@lifespan.org Work:401-255-2497 This electronic message and any attachments may be privileged and confidential and protected from disclosure. If you are reading this message, but are not the intended recipient, nor an employee or agent responsible for delivering this message to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that you are strictly prohibited from copying, printing, forwarding or otherwise disseminating this communication. If you have received this communication in error, please immediately notify the sender by replying to the message. Then, delete the message from your computer. Thank you. -----Original Message----- From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Kurt Buff Sent: Thursday, August 01, 2013 10:25 AM To: ntsys...@lists.myitforum.com Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] Odd spooler issue And the HP driver(s) would also affect some, but not all, of our Zebra printers? Kurt On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 1:26 AM, Ziots, Edward <ezi...@lifespan.org> wrote: > I would look for Bad HP drivers with the HPBPRO.exe and HPBOID.exe > running on the print server I have found in past travels that these > have been the root cause of some of our print server issues. Removing > the drivers with these additional HP software on them has addressed > the issue. But I also agree that using ADplus as recommended will get > you down to a driver issue and from there can work out which printers > are using that driver and maybe upgrade that driver or switch over to > universal print driver which works well enough for most cases but not > all :) > > Z > > Edward E. Ziots, CISSP, CISA, Security +, Network + Security Engineer > Lifespan Organization ezi...@lifespan.org > Work:401-255-2497 > > > This electronic message and any attachments may be privileged and > confidential and protected from disclosure. If you are reading this message, > but are not the intended recipient, nor an employee or agent responsible for > delivering this message to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified > that you are strictly prohibited from copying, printing, forwarding or > otherwise disseminating this communication. If you have received this > communication in error, please immediately notify the sender by replying to > the message. 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Thank you. > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com > [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Kurt Buff > Sent: Wednesday, July 31, 2013 8:18 PM > To: ntsys...@lists.myitforum.com > Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] Odd spooler issue > > Per our offline conversation, this has been initiated. > > Many thanks for your help on this. > > Kurt > > On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 4:49 PM, Brian Desmond <br...@briandesmond.com> wrote: >> Get a full hang dump with adplus, zip it, and ping me. >> >> You can find adplus in the debugging tools for Windows installer which is >> found in the WDK download. >> >> Thanks, >> Brian Desmond >> br...@briandesmond.com >> >> w – 312.625.1438 | c – 312.731.3132 >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com >> [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Kurt Buff >> Sent: Friday, July 19, 2013 5:42 PM >> To: ntsys...@lists.myitforum.com >> Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] Odd spooler issue >> >> I might well take you up on that offer next week. >> >> Currently am unable to reproduce, as the folks complaining about it are out >> of the office. >> >> Plus, I spent a fascinating bit of time last night troubleshooting a problem >> with our VNXe, which deserves an email all it's own. >> >> I'm going to set a reminder for this problem for next week, and see what I >> can dig up. >> >> Kurt >> >> On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 3:23 PM, Brian Desmond <br...@briandesmond.com> >> wrote: >>> So troubleshooting this without a dump of the spooler when the issue is >>> occurring is going to be hard, IMO. I'm willing to look at the dump, but >>> full disclosure it's been like five years so I can't promise I'll produce >>> anything for you. >>> >>> >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Brian Desmond >>> br...@briandesmond.com >>> >>> w – 312.625.1438 | c – 312.731.3132 >>> >>>> -----Original Message----- >>>> From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com >>>> [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] >>>> On Behalf Of Kurt Buff >>>> Sent: Wednesday, July 17, 2013 6:15 PM >>>> To: ntsys...@lists.myitforum.com >>>> Subject: [NTSysADM] Odd spooler issue >>>> >>>> All, >>>> >>>> I've got a little head scratcher, and would appreciate any insight >>>> folks might have. >>>> >>>> Printer Server: Win2k8 R2, fully patched VM running on vSphere 5 >>>> (recently gone from 5.0 to 5.1, the problem began on the earlier >>>> version.) >>>> >>>> Problem: Print jobs from our installation of Epicor Avante to >>>> various printers (an HP 2055 and several models of Zebra printer) >>>> hosted on the printer server, will intermittently hang in the print queue. >>>> Delay will range anywhere from 1.5 - 2 minutes, and they they'll >>>> print. I can see the jobs in queue, just sitting there (they have a >>>> status of 'printing', but do nothing.) >>>> >>>> I am seeing nothing in the event viewer for the printer server that >>>> looks relevant, and certainly no warnings or errors. Neither memory >>>> nor CPU spike >>>> >>>> The Avante server is running Win2k3 R2. >>>> >>>> The problem disappears and reappears a couple of times a week. >>>> >>>> Thoughts? >>>> >>>> Kurt >>>> >>>> >>> >> >> >> > > >
