Bruce Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> says
>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.
Ah swell. Well, I'll gird my loins for a run-in with HP tech support.
Is there an alternative printer driver available anywhere? I know
there used to be serial drivers available, I thin' it was GDT
Softworks, Queeksdraw.
> > 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.
>
Ah, even sweller. And of course they're aware of it and doing their
best to fix it ...
David Klaus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sez
>Not sure about the printer, but what are you using to connect to the
>Internet? Is it Apple's Remote Access or something else? I know I
>could dial-up the Internet with USB running under 8.6 and had no
>issues what-so-ever, so that is the area I would attack first. Do
>you have any other USB devices connected, and do they work while
>dialed up. As a test, find a USB mouse and plug it in to see what
>happens.
It's FreePPP, whatever the last version was - 2.5.2? I can easily
switch over to ARA, but the users are used to FreePPP and the menu
thngie.
Nope, nothing else in USB-land though a CD RW drive is connected from
time to time for backups and there have been no problems with that
other than slowness, which I expected.
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