Strange shared printer problem

[dezt]

I am ahving a strange problem with 2 shared printers. They are both HP laserjet 1018's which are locally attached to PC's via a USB cable. the permissions and security settings are set right.

 

The problem I get is when a user tries to print to the printer which is mapped accross, the job goes into the print que but does not print, it just sits there and does nothing. If i log onto the PC that the printer is attached to as a user and send a job to print it will work fine. I have no idea why this is happening, and it only happens on these 2 printers, it doesn't happen on any others.

 

Can someone please help????

[ces973]

We had this happen with some 1022's. You have to go into the printer properties, go to the "ports" tab, and uncheck "enable printer spooling".

[dezt]

i'll give that a try tomorrow, thanks.

[Jiser]

Bidirectional printing - 'unselected' worked for me a few times with printers (on the above issue), mainly of the HP variety.

[dezt]

printer pooling is off in the ports tab, so is bi-directional

 

Printer spooling is under the advanced tab, i'm going to turn that off and try it then.

Edited October 14, 2008 by dezt
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