I believe there are two parts to the driver. The windows part assumes the printer is connected to the parallel port (or another local port) The stuff I HAD to download from HP was the stuff that found the printer on my network, not associated with a server, but as an IP address. Maybe there is a way to talk to it without this piece from HP, but I couldn't figure it out.
> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Jon Elson > Sent: Thursday, September 05, 2002 2:07 PM > To: Protel EDA Forum > Subject: Re: [PEDA] Long overbars on printed output > > > Ray Mitchell wrote: > > > Tony, > > > > My printer is configured as a simple Ethernet IP printer. Several > > users here tried the HP Jet Admin stuff but it never worked > properly. > > I'm not clear on the printer driver business, though. If a > printer is > > networked does each user still need to fool with printer drivers on > > their individual machines or is the printer driver somehow now > > attached to the printer itself? > > The driver is part of Windows (sort of), and is associated > with the icon you can select under control panel/printers. > When problems showed up, I often downloaded a printer driver > from HP's web site (for HP printers, of course) and installed > it. This often fixed odd problems with the Windows default > drivers. So, yes, you still need the RIGHT driver on your > machine, and a generic Windows HP driver may not get all > possible graphical possibilities to print exactly right. > > > Actually, the long overbar problem just started. I'm not > sure when, > > however. I'm beginning to wonder if Win2K SP3 might not > have caused > > the problem, or possibly one of the other multitudinous periodic > > updates that Microsoft comes up with. > > Yes, that is possible. You may want to add an additional > driver from HP and try it. > > Jon > > > ************************************************************** > ********** > * Tracking #: B41BF3B030570C4797FC61D3355F2590993FD856 > * > ************************************************************** > ********** > * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * To post a message: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * * To leave this list visit: * http://www.techservinc.com/protelusers/leave.html * * Contact the list manager: * mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * * Forum Guidelines Rules: * http://www.techservinc.com/protelusers/forumrules.html * * Browse or Search previous postings: * http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
