Anyone know anything about Jetdirects?

[wardog25]

I inherited a network with a several old HP printers attached to old Jetdirects. (Jetdirect 170X)

Recently I bought an HP Laserjet 2300L and replace an old printer with it. Now i get several strange errors. First I got some PCL6 error, so I changed to the PCL5e drivers. Now i get some error where in certain programs it will cut a line off at the bottom of the page.

So I have a question. Is there a possibility this Jetdirect is too old for the printer? I can't flash the firmware cause this model Jetdirect doesn't have any memory and it seems HP stopped supporting them long ago. Would I be smart to upgrade?

Or is it more likely something else. I have noticed the Windows NT machines have more issues with the printer than the Win2k ones, but that doesn't fix every problem, though.

 

[bluegroper]

Internal and External JetDirects mostly work real well.
I have some old one's that have worked flawlessly for years.
Can you temporarily connect the printer directly to pararallel port of the suspect computer, and test there ?

 

[DansDadUK]

I can't see that "in certain programs it will cut a line off at the bottom of the page" is anything whatsoever to do with JetDirect (which is merely the means of transport).

It is much more likely that you have a problem with either the application, or the print driver you are using.

One or the other of these is perhaps assuming a different paper size, or a different 'unprintable area' at the bottom of the page.

 

[hpwizzard]

If you are the "lucky" owner of a JetDirect 170x version with a FW of X.07.03 or above, you should be able to configure it via your browser on it´s IP address. Does the programs that causes any of these problem run off a DOS box ? If so you might need to change the printers pagesetting with a PJL command telling it how many lines per page should be printed. The LJ 2300L is probably set to a default pagelength of 60 lines, but can easily be set to fx. 80.