HELP! You may recall that I had a bit of a lightning problem here. The network card and the router went out on me. Reloading factory defaults got every thing on the router to working except the port the NIC was connected to which is DOA. The NIC was chopped liver but I got one cheaply locally.
Then I discovered that the laser printer, an ancient Canon LBP-430, was not working. Checking it out with an old Win 95 laptop I have showed that the printer was working so I figured that it was the LPT port that had bought it. I ordered a USB to Centronics cable, and a USB 2.0 card at the same time. When they arrived I hooked the laser up with the USB cable and printed a testpage OK. That was the last time it worked. Now using the USB cable the printer works with the Thinkpad, which has no LPT port, no problem. The printer works with the Win 95 machine using the LPT cable, no USB at all on this machine, no problem. So it does not seem to be the printer. Now the Epson R-200 works fine on the desktop using the USB ports. It makes no difference whether it is one the old 1.1 ports or the new 2.0 ports. But the laser printer does not work on the LPT port, the USB 1.1 ports, nor the USB 2.0 ports. I get a “printer ready” indication, but I get a “printer error” message in the printer queue window when I try to print anything. I have removed and replaced the printer ports. Removed and replaced the USB ports. Removed and replaced the printer, and even removed both printers and only replaced the laser. I have reloaded WinXPPsp2. NOTE: I have sp2 on the ThinkPad as well, but the printer works from it (USB connection not trough the network which would use the desktop). I ran the windows printer troubleshooting program and all it suggests in the end is that I seek help elsewhere. I did everything on the XP printer problem page at microsoft.com. I am thinking of just buying a new laser, this one is old and slow anyway, but am afraid that after buying one it won’t work either. Anyone have any suggestions? -- graywolf http://www.graywolfphoto.com http://webpages.charter.net/graywolf "Idiot Proof" <==> "Expert Proof" ----------------------------------- -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
