Printing to hp1100 too slow

[ctopmep]

I have win 2000 professional system and hp1100 printer installed on LPT1.
If I click on Printers->HPlaserj, I get the page with documents to be printed and I can see size of sent data to printer/size of whole data to be sent.
The problem is that application is sending only about 30 KB of data to printer, and then stops for several minutes. After that I receive a message:

There was an error found when printing the document "document name" to LPT1:. Do you want to retry or cancel the job?

If I retry, another 20-30 KB are sent to printer and another pause and the same message again. I must continue retrying until all data is sent to printer and then printer starts printing.

I reinstalled the drivers for the printer, the drivers for the LPT port, I tryed SPP, ECP configuration of paralel port, changed the cable of the printer and nothing works. The same printer is working normally on another computer.
Any idea what could be the problem?

 

[pcs800]

3 suggestions, use a different driver. Try the hp4 driver, it seems to be a pretty general driver that works with a lot of their LJ's
Also try setting it send data directly to the printer without spooling, or vice versa depending on what the setting is now.
Third, is the printer cable new enough to support 2 way communications? If not, maybe the printer is sending back data but you are not getting it because of an older cable.

Eric VanLandingham
The Bargain Monkey

http://www.bargainmonkey.com

 

[ctopmep]

With lj4 driver I have same problem. Under Linux, the printer is found automaticly and with it's drivers I have the same problem, but when printing pages that need more processing (sent to printer one by one), they are printed correctly. Is there any parallel port testing utility for checking is it ok?