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I have HP printer series 842 inkjet. That is giving error on Excel XP documents what is "SPOOL 32"

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by johnm

Spool32.exe is a Windows 95/98 component that mediates print activity between the computer and printer. Some basic troubleshooting information is at ht tp://support.microsoft.com/def ault.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q191949 (remove spaces). Spool32 is not part of Windows XP. Sounds like you might need a printer driver update to work with XP.

by scarlett

This is a known issue with Hewlett Packard printers, it usually is caused by laser printer drivers, the answer you need will be found on Hewlett packards website under laser printers. What I have found is usually the driver you use there are 3 things that may help.
1) If under your printer settings spool setting it is set to EMF then you need to change it to raw, or vise versa.
2) Some TSR's with H.P drivers can cause this problem you will need to disable any unnecessary
TSR's and see ifthis helps, if not then you need to use a driver, I.E HP600 series driver.
I now with the laser's that if you set the driver to HP4 or the HP11p driver it seems to correct this problem, but be aware that according to HP there is no in stone fix, you may still get the error but by doing the above may not get it as frequently.

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