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by chester peterson

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Can anybody shed some light on this on going problem.
Basically I have 3 PC's here, the 2 generic PC's have no problem printing to a HP OfficeJet 85 using any OS.
The 3rd being a Packard Bell keeps freezing after printing a few pages.
I have tried every different OS on the PBell and have the same results. (I was told it could be Win ME but it doesnt work on any OS). I have come to the conclusion that it must be a hardware problem with the PBell (there is no conflicts or any other problems, it has plenty of Ram and resources free). It looks like the two just aren't compatable!.
Any thoughts would be gratefull.

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by bobho

How is the printer connected? USB or parallel (bi-directional or not). If parallel, us it using EPP, ECP or SPP? It might be trying to use a mode that is not supported by your hardware. If it's not using SPP (standard parallel port) try and change it to this and see what happens.

Let us know,

DrBob:>)

by chester peterson

Thanks Dr Bob,
I changed the printer port to 'bi-directional' instead of ECP. Even though the HP manual says for the printer to work it MUST be set on ECP.
Thanks again

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