Q: After a clean install of win2k . I wanted my printers . Now every time I boot or reboot to install my LJ 1200 prints a test page to print win2k. I tried deleting it and reinstalling . did not help . any help appreciated!
Re:it detects the printer ,etc…it's only if you print something out while the computer is on…the spooler never clears…when it boots, it will print everything you printed earlier…so far i had it print 5 pages of different things on boot up.
i'm wondering if when the install was done, something got corrupted in windows…
Re:Still thinking about this one. What happens when you unplug/plug the printer with the computer on and Windows running?
Re:I have a very similar problem with an HP Deskjet 820 — every time I boot the machine up or just reboot winders (XP SP1), it spits out one page with a single character on it in a corner, the character varies. Strange…. it works fine after that, but it's irritating.
Re:Man, that's a toughy. Technet is coming up blank. You could try digging around in HP's site.
As a workaround, try setting that printer to work offline and just leave it. Then install an identical printer and see if it works ok.
hehe have you tried actually printing a test page to see if it "toggles off"??
Re:tried that…no luck.
Re:try shutting down the spooler service then cleaning out the directory and starting it again.
Re:it's usb…tried different ports…i found that if i disabled print spooling it went away…but why is that? that's not right…i shouldn't have to do that…it used the spooler before
Re:Is this on a parallel or USB connection? Either way, have you tried a different cable? If it's parallel, you could try changing the mode (ECP, EPP, etc.) in your BIOS and see if that helps.
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