Reverse Question - FC2 Prints over network perfectly,

[J. Erik Hemdal]

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> Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 10:17:28 -0600
> From: "Berg, Ivan Michael (Ivan)" <ivanberg at avaya.com>
> Subject: Reverse Question - FC2 Prints over network perfectly,
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> 	XP does not
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> Now, all used to be fine printing locally from WinXP to my old school
> BJ200, with occasional horizontal lines fixed by cleaning the printer or
> replacing the cartridge. Now, imagine my surprise when I print from my
> FC2 box, and it prints flawlessly 100% of the time!
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Hi Ivan:

By "used to be fine", I assume you mean "before installing Service Pack 2"?
And I read your post to mean that the printer is local to the XP box and
shared using Windows printer sharing to the Fedora system.

> Every application in WinXP (Word, Firefox, Excel, etc.) now has trouble
> printing locally with horizontal lines. Why does FC2 work fine printing
> to the same exact printer over the network? Doesn't it eventually use
> the same BJ200 Windows driver that seems to be having issues?
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> Anyone have any ideas?

Service Pack 2 on XP breaks a lot of things.  I would start by removing SP2
(the installation should have backed up your old files and made a restore
point for you) and testing if that resolves the problem.

The "improved security" in SP2 changes a lot of behavior, including the
firewall configuration and printer sharing.

If XP is now handling your local printer like a shared one, and the firewall
is turned on by default, XP might be corrupting or blocking data from your
print requests.

Please post back with your results.  I'm not able to test things out so I
can't verify precisely what's happening for you.

Erik


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> Ivan Berg
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