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by ravencomputer

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Nt4.0 server,sp6,hp jet admin,114 users,4 hp5 printers with unique IP addresses.
Out of "nowhere" and at random intervals one HP printer is printing dozens of sheets of paper (watermarked bond) with AscII characters across the top two lines. Have traced print services with the event viewer with no success and have looked for errant print requests locally on the Win98 clients. On a long overnight I have shut down all systems except server and printer in question. Then waited. The printer beginsspooling out these sheets but the server does not indicate that anything is occuring. Any ideas?? Anyone! Printer outputs 1500-2000 pages daily with no problems from multiple local and remote hosts. Many Thanks

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by jlouis45

This problem i have faced too. But for that you neednt shutdown all the systems. Instead power off the printer which is having problem and also power off the print server which is located in the printer. This would solve the problem temproralily. This happens when users do not have sufficient memory on their PC and the error starts here.

by pclemente2

It sounds like one of you clients is set to LPR to your printer via IP. I'd start there. Next Check you HP jetdirect setting for accessability from Web browser. acutally check all the settings. It sounds like one of you systems is running a print job or they are printing from an application or web page. The most likely installed an incorrect version of the print driver. One question, Does it occur at the same time every night or random hours. If its alway late it mostly not your clients but bored security surfing the net. As a test remove the network connection from the printer in question. See who's local spooler floods. start there! I be back in touch. By the way Update all your server printer drivers while your at it.

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