Why does my printer print gibberish?

[baxwink]

I have a new Okidata 182 printer connected to a new Gateway computer running windows XP Pro and a parrallel connection. The printer worked fine when I first set it up now it has started printing about 2 lines of gibberish when I try to print a test page. What could be wrong? The Okidata site is absolutely NO help. I thought about reloading the print drivers but Okidata doesn't have them available at their site, only a note that says it's included with Win XP. HELP!

 

[leonec]

sounds like a memeory overflow. how big of a file are you printing? If it is too big for the printer try printing multipul sections one at a time. and don't send a lot of jobs all at once.

 

[edfair]

Can be printer setup got corrupted. Can be cables loose. Can be parallel port munged. Can be drivers.
Try getting into DOS at bootup and do a dir > prn. This should answer several of the possibilites. That is , if you can find a DOS bootable floppy. Ed Fair
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[superred]

Was this machine on a network with internet connection?
It may be related to the recent Bugbear virus that caused printers to print ambiguous / garbled pages

 

[leecarter]

Is there any OKI software that installs? Try unistalling / reinstalling that and the XP driver.

Just to confirm - it has worked in XP before?

The cable is bi-directional?

No scanners, switching boxes, etc... connected?