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by chester peterson

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I have a HP Office Jet printer (G85 All in one) running on Celeron 900, 128mb ram,10Gb HD and using Win ME.
I have downloaded the correct drivers from the net and installed correctly but the printer only prints 1 or 2 pages of any 10/15 page document. The PC also freezes sometimes when trying to print and have to reboot.
Any Ideas?

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by rcom

First try changing your printers setting to "RAW".

1. Go to the "PRINTERS" folder in "CONTROL PANEL" Open your printers "PROPERTIES" by right clicking on the printer's icon.

2. Select the "DETAILS TAB" across the top.

2. Open "SPOOL SETTINGS" and select "PRINT DIRECT"
TO THE PRINTER"

Also you can try some of the other settings there.

Second, try changing the LPT Port settings in your system's BIOS. Usually you press the delete key when it displays on the screen to do so as thecomputer's first booting up. Select "INTERGRATED PERIPHERALS" and change the printer port to another of the settings. The use of or lack of use of DMA may be causing the problem.

by meltvn

Set the printer properties in the bios to ECP, 378 and IRQ7. Reinstall the lineport device manager. reinstall printer driver. If problem persists change printer cable. Try printing out of DOS a few pages see what happens, if nou trouble and you havedone the above. Download the driver again and reinstall

Good luck
Melt

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