I recently had this issue with our HP printers as well. PCL6 was at fault and once I had all the printers on PCL5e the print spooler stopped crashing. I still have PCL6 drivers for our networked Toshiba and Konica\Minolta copiers (they don't have PCL5 drivers) but they are not crashing the spooler.
On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 9:03 AM, Miller Bonnie L. < [email protected]> wrote: > Ben--any chance you were using the PCL6 universal? After much > troubleshooting since WS03 SP2 came out, we finally started using PCL5e for > everything, and the universal one seems to work well too (as you mentioned, > where you can use it). Certain models (LJ 4250, some 4200s) pretty much > also required firmware updates. After those changes, we started doing okay > again with the HPs we have. > > Since changing to using PCL5e, we have as of yet for anyone to be missing a > feature they need. For a few printers we use PS as well, but I'm pretty > much avoiding the PCL6 drivers completely as we constantly get the "PCL XL" > error pages for various reasons. Mail merge in excel will almost always set > it off. > > -Bonnie > > -----Original Message----- > From: Ben Scott [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2009 8:36 AM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: Re: PRINT SERVER spooler > > On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 11:15 AM, Ziots, Edward <[email protected]> > wrote: > > You can always use the HP Universal Print drivers in those cases too.. > > We tried the HP Univ Print Driver and it killed half the HP printers > in the place, including HP printers which were still on their own > drivers because the universal driver didn't support them. They kept > printing PCL job error pages instead of print jobs. > > We ended up hacking the HP LJ 4 driver that came with Windows XP > into a generic PCL driver that seems to work with most HP printers. > It's been stable. It is also fast, lightweight, and has a consistent > UI across models, which is something I can't say for HP's own crap. > > I can post if people like. > > -- Ben > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > -- Mike Sullivan [email protected] ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
