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by per.r.pedersen

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I have a workstation(a) with a networkprinter installed,
when i print out from this workstation(a) everything work
just fine. But, the printer is also shared out, and for
those(b) who print out with the shared printer there are
problems, theprinter are very unstable, may or may not
print. It seems like that when i print out something from
the workstation(a) who have the printer installed
first,then the other workstations(b) who use the shared
printer can get some prints done. Ican see the printjobs
in the print spooler on the workstation(a) that have the
printer installed but after some time, "Error" The
printer is an Brother MFC 9870 and we have a HP Jet
Direct Print server, but since i can print out from (a)i
do not think that it is a networkproblem.(Or?) It is
256mb Ram on (a)and aprox. 12Gb free space on
harddisk,1700Mhz Intel prosessor.OS is XP and we use also Offic XP I used TCPIP adress on
printer and all workstations have fixed TCPIP. eg.I have
tried all possible way to install the printer with same
result,with ore without DHCP.
Greatfull for input on this.
Regards
Per R. Pedersen
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by madmark

Sound slike the problem is with the Jet Direct card.

Since you are using a Jet Direct Print Server, there is no need to hook the printer up to the XP system. Just let the HPJD sit out on the LAN by itself and assign it its own IP address. When you send a job to the HPJD, it should serve it up to the printer.

Don't connect the XP system directly to the network printer. It may not be able to prioritize multiple input streams. Also, ensure that the users have the correct drivers installed for the printer and the OS that they are using. Here's some info from one of Brother's webpages:
http://www.brother.com/E-ftp/windowsxp/europe.html

by per.r.pedersen

Thanks for reply.
The reason for that the printer is hooked up like this is that this is a classroom with 15 pupil PC's and 1 Instructor PC. As a Instructor i want to have full control of all printing since the pupils not always know what they are doing, like one time someone tried to print out a MP3 file(!)(it was several hundreds pages)
When it is like this i easely turn of and on the printer from my PC. Maybe there is another way i can do the same thing, the printer is also used by other people so it can not be turned of.
Regards
Per R Pedersen

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