On Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 02:41:44PM -0500, Steve Bergman wrote: > I have an ongoing problem with one of my clients' printers. It's an HP > laserjet 5. It is connected to an FC1 workstation parallel. In my experience, often printer problems can be traced to the firmware -- does the manufacturer provide newer firmware for this model? If so it would definitely be worth trying that first of all. > I've replaced the FC1 box twice, the printer once, and the printer cable > twice. Have you tried connecting the printer to an FC2 machine? > E [18/Aug/2004:13:01:25 -0500] ReadClient() 5 IPP Read Error! > > I see this when the printer gets disabled. So what is a "5 IPP read > error?" This means that it was expecting to be able to read IPP data from the other machine, but for some reason could not. > On the FC2 server, I have a similar situation, where a job will just > hang going out the parallel port to an HP 4050 right in the middle of a > job. Is that connected directly to the FC2 server? Tim. */
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