On Saturday, September 21, 2002, at 07:15 AM, craig o'donnell wrote: > > 2. Sometimes, for reasons which are obscure, it seems the printer > doesn't "wake up" when a job is sent - no "processing data" light > blinking - and again the system hangs. Forcing a restart causes the > print job to print and the printer, having been whacked upside its > pointy haid, acts normal until the next time...
This is an endemic problem with low-end HP laser printers and isn't the computer. These printers have no on/off switch. Unplugging and plugging in the printer to power cycle it seems to work most of the time. Something in the printer's memory gets corrupted and power cycling is the only way of clearing it. It's gotten better, but it's affected every one of these vertical paper path designs they've put out. We had one (a 5L, the worst offender of these) here that wouldn't run for more than about an hour or two before it got screwed up. > > and 3 - mysterious to me - if the computer is not shut off overnight, > when I come back in, the System has bloated itself to about 190M (all > RAM plus VM) and nothing can be run until it's restarted. That's a memory leak in the damned HP Printer Monitor stuff. Whenever I install software for HP printers I install the absolute bare minimum: just the driver, no toner/paper/ink/time of day/soap opera monitoring software that HP just loves to stick on. It craps up Windows machines worse than Macs. -- Bruce Johnson Wherever you go, there you are. -- PCI-PowerMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Sonnet & PowerLogix Upgrades - start at $169 | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> PCI-PowerMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/pci-powermacs.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive:<http://www.mail-archive.com/pci-powermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
