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Legacy Forums => General Discussion (Legacy) => Topic started by: Jamie on October 26, 2003, 02:42:42 PM
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I've set up my printer successfully in the past, but recently I haven't been able to get it working. The workstations can connect to it, but it only prints garbage. I installed the driver on the workstations with the install CD. I also downloaded another driver from the internet. (BTW its a HP Deskjet 5652)
I've tried re-installing different versions of SME but still no success. The only thing I can possibly put it down to, is that I've got a satellite receiver card installed.
From memory, the last time I installed the printer, I didn't have the satellite card installed. - Would this affect my printer?
The printer works fine on Windows XP machines. My printer also supports USB, I've tried a USB cable too, but still no luck.
Any Ideas?
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Jamie wrote:
> The workstations can connect to it, but it only prints garbage.
Then they have the wrong driver installed, or the driver is malfunctioning.
> I've tried re-installing different versions of SME but still
> no success.
That's not surprising. The SME server makes no changes to the data sent to the printer, so if the workstation sends the wrong stuff, the printing won't come out right.
Charlie
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I understand how it works. But the same thing happens when I have the same printer connected locally to a workstation. It obviously sends the correct data then right?
Also, its not just the one workstation that prints garbage out of the printer. The entire network does it too. I thought perhaps my printer port may be configrued wrong in the BIOS. So I reloaded setup defaults, but still no luck
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by process of elimination, perhaps the printer has malfunctioned ...