Strange printer (HP Laserjet IIIp)

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Charl

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Hello folks,

My printer has been acting up lately. When I try to print something,
it spits out a lot of white pages and VERY rarely the correct print is
somewhere inbetween those white sheets.

So basically, WHEN it prints, it prints correctly and at a good
quality. It's just that it only makes the print 5% of the time - the
remaining 95%, it just spits out empty sheets.

I am not using a printer switch. What could this be?

-- Charl
 
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Hello folks,

My printer has been acting up lately. When I try to print something,
it spits out a lot of white pages and VERY rarely the correct print is
somewhere inbetween those white sheets.

So basically, WHEN it prints, it prints correctly and at a good
quality. It's just that it only makes the print 5% of the time - the
remaining 95%, it just spits out empty sheets.

I am not using a printer switch. What could this be?

-- Charl
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I regularly had the same problem but there was no white pages but a
lot of copy of the same page. I only had this problem with IE6 on
Win98SE.
My solution with IE6 is to translate the page into .pdf and then print
it out. Since then I don't have the problem anymore.

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charl@home.nl (Charl) wrote in news:567d7ec3.0401260643.1e96b54
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Hello folks,

My printer has been acting up lately. When I try to print something,
it spits out a lot of white pages and VERY rarely the correct print is
somewhere inbetween those white sheets.

So basically, WHEN it prints, it prints correctly and at a good
quality. It's just that it only makes the print 5% of the time - the
remaining 95%, it just spits out empty sheets.

I am not using a printer switch. What could this be?

-- Charl
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Do you have the under printer paper tray installed? If so try feeding paper
through the drop down paper feed and see if it still does it. I've no idea
why but mine has the same problem with the papertray feed only.
 
Hi Jeff,

Do you have the under printer paper tray installed? If so try feeding paper
through the drop down paper feed and see if it still does it. I've no idea
why but mine has the same problem with the papertray feed only.
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Yeah, I do have that tray installed, but manual feed doesn't help, it
yields the exact same results, only I then also have to put the sheets
in manually, which means more work ;)

-- Charl
 
On 26 Jan 2004 06:43:08 -0800, charl@home.nl (Charl) wrote:

Hello folks,

My printer has been acting up lately. When I try to print something,
it spits out a lot of white pages and VERY rarely the correct print is
somewhere inbetween those white sheets.

So basically, WHEN it prints, it prints correctly and at a good
quality. It's just that it only makes the print 5% of the time - the
remaining 95%, it just spits out empty sheets.

I am not using a printer switch. What could this be?

-- Charl
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I used to have a similar problem once that turned out to be the wrong
BIOS setting for LPT port mode (ECP, ECP+EPP etc.), but that can't be
the culprit here, can it?
 
I used to have a similar problem once that turned out to be the wrong
BIOS setting for LPT port mode (ECP, ECP+EPP etc.), but that can't be
the culprit here, can it?
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Hey,

I suppose it could... what do you think that the setting should be?

-- Charl
 
ECP would be my guess.

what sort of setup are you running. I don't know about the laserjet III but
this should only be one of a few things. Is it connected parallel? When did
the trouble start. Have you just installed another piece of software or
hardeware?

What you have is a communication problem. Could be software related. What
OS? try turning off background programs. the utility MSCONFIG can be very
good for this if you are using 98/me/or XP. Could be a hardware problem
where you might try changing the settings to ECP or maybe beg/borrow another
cable from a friend. If you have more trouble Email me and I'll be glad to
help.

--bill

"Charl" <charl@home.nl> wrote in message
news:567d7ec3.0401281116.55eaed18@posting.google.com...
I used to have a similar problem once that turned out to be the wrong
BIOS setting for LPT port mode (ECP, ECP+EPP etc.), but that can't be
the culprit here, can it?

Hey,

I suppose it could... what do you think that the setting should be?

-- Charl
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Try removing and re-installing your printer driver.

"Charl" <charl@home.nl> wrote in message
news:567d7ec3.0401260643.1e96b54@posting.google.com...
Hello folks,

My printer has been acting up lately. When I try to print something,
it spits out a lot of white pages and VERY rarely the correct print
is
somewhere inbetween those white sheets.

So basically, WHEN it prints, it prints correctly and at a good
quality. It's just that it only makes the print 5% of the time - the
remaining 95%, it just spits out empty sheets.

I am not using a printer switch. What could this be?

-- Charl
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