Print job won't print to local printer, just network printer

[smileyca2002]

Hello all,

Whenever I try to print to my local printer, all the print job would print to the network printer. Whenever I've uninstall the local printer driver and reload it, it would work for a couple of days and then the print jobs would go to the network printer instead of my local printer again. BTW, both the local printers are HP (local is LJ 1100 while the network printer is LJ 5M). Any ideas/suggestions?

Any insight would be greatly appreciated! Thanks.

Smiley

 

[dbMark]

Do you have the local printer set as the default? If so, does it stay set as the default?

Are you aware that if you click on the printer icon shown on many Windows programs, it will often print imediately to the default printer or perhaps to the last-used printer. If you want to select a printer and be sure where you're printing to, then use the File/Print menu option to get the full print menu options window.

Does this answer your issue or is it something other than the above?

 

[smileyca2002]

Hi dbMark,
Thank you for responding. I do have the local printer set as my default printer. Even when I print a test page from the local printer, the print job gets printed on the network printer. I suspect the problem may be a combo of windows 2003 (as that is the print server's OS) and windows 2000 pro (the local workstation).
Regards,

smiley

 

[gbaughma]

Are you running any batch files to link network printers?

For example, if you were to do a:

NET USE LPT1: \\server\printershare ... then all of your print jobs sent to your local printer would go to the network printer instead.

Also, check for printer pooling; make sure that's turned off before trying to print to your local printer; if the local printer isn't available for whatever reason, then it would be pooled out to another printer in the pool.



Just my $.02

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