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by anejako

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On a Windows 98 machine with 128 MB RAM and about 4 GB hard disk space available, a user I support continually gets the message "storage to process this request not available" when he tries to print to HP 4500 and HP 4 Plus printers. Rebooting solves the problem, which happens frequently.
Any ideas on why this would happen?

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by seagull data services

Have you checked the printer driver?
I'm assuming that you have other machines printing to the same printers. Compare the driver versions.
HTH
John

by anejako

This is closer to the answer--deleted and reinstalled network printers and it's doing fine now.

by drdmc

Win 98 usually sends print jobs to the spool located in a temp portion of the harddrive. If the amount of space isn't available you get overflow problems. You should be able to check spool settings under the printers applet in control panel. I had to add more ram to several of my machines to handle large jobs (also increased size of swapfile might help.

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