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From: JohnB on 24 Mar 2010 08:48
We have a HP 2605dtn that is shared out on a Windows 2003 server. This week
people have been complaining that PDF files take a long time to print. It
prints a page, then stops, then starts back up.

The driver on the server is a PCL6 driver. I have had problems in the past
with PCL6 drivers, so I went to HP's site, but did not find a PCL5 driver,
just a PostScript driver.

I downloaded that and changed the driver on the server. Now on my PC, it's
saying "printer not found on server". The share name is the same. If I
change it back to the PCL6 driver, my workstation finds the printer again.
I wasn't expecting it to work that way. Is that normal behavior? All I
changed was the driver on the server, not the share name.

Thanks.


From: DE on 25 Mar 2010 00:59
JohnB wrote:
> We have a HP 2605dtn that is shared out on a Windows 2003 server. This week
> people have been complaining that PDF files take a long time to print. It
> prints a page, then stops, then starts back up.
>
> The driver on the server is a PCL6 driver. I have had problems in the past
> with PCL6 drivers, so I went to HP's site, but did not find a PCL5 driver,
> just a PostScript driver.
>
> I downloaded that and changed the driver on the server. Now on my PC, it's
> saying "printer not found on server". The share name is the same. If I
> change it back to the PCL6 driver, my workstation finds the printer again.
> I wasn't expecting it to work that way. Is that normal behavior? All I
> changed was the driver on the server, not the share name.
>
> Thanks.
>
>
You'll need to be sure you also load the drivers on the server for
whatever OS is on your PC.

PDF file printing is usually a function of the settings for the printer;
check those details, such as if you're printing the entire document
rasterized.
From: JohnB on 25 Mar 2010 08:04
Yes, I have the XP driver loaded on the server, and my PC is running XP.



"DE" <nowhere(a)all.disorg> wrote in message
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> You'll need to be sure you also load the drivers on the server for
> whatever OS is on your PC.
>
> PDF file printing is usually a function of the settings for the printer;
> check those details, such as if you're printing the entire document
> rasterized.


From: DaveMills on 29 Mar 2010 16:04
On Wed, 24 Mar 2010 08:48:09 -0400, "JohnB" <jbrigan(a)yahoo.com> wrote:

>We have a HP 2605dtn that is shared out on a Windows 2003 server. This week
>people have been complaining that PDF files take a long time to print. It
>prints a page, then stops, then starts back up.
>
>The driver on the server is a PCL6 driver. I have had problems in the past
>with PCL6 drivers, so I went to HP's site, but did not find a PCL5 driver,
>just a PostScript driver.
>
>I downloaded that and changed the driver on the server. Now on my PC, it's
>saying "printer not found on server". The share name is the same. If I
>change it back to the PCL6 driver, my workstation finds the printer again.
>I wasn't expecting it to work that way. Is that normal behavior? All I
>changed was the driver on the server, not the share name.
>
>Thanks.
>
I think the 2605 is supported by the HP Universal Driver, you might try
switching to that.
--
Dave Mills
There are 10 types of people, those that understand binary and those that don't.
From: JohnB on 31 Mar 2010 08:37
I'm using the Postscript driver, and for whatever reason, that works fine
with PDFs.
I still haven't figured out the other problem.... why workstations lose
their connection to this shared printer, when I change the driver on the
server. And... if I change the driver on my workstation, it changes the
driver on the server. At which point I lose connection with that printer.
Very strange.

So what I've done for now is use direct TCP/IP printing (with the PS driver)
for those that had the problem with PDFs.



"DaveMills" <DaveMills(a)newsgroup.nospam> wrote in message
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> On Wed, 24 Mar 2010 08:48:09 -0400, "JohnB" <jbrigan(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>>We have a HP 2605dtn that is shared out on a Windows 2003 server. This
>>week
>>people have been complaining that PDF files take a long time to print. It
>>prints a page, then stops, then starts back up.
>>
>>The driver on the server is a PCL6 driver. I have had problems in the
>>past
>>with PCL6 drivers, so I went to HP's site, but did not find a PCL5 driver,
>>just a PostScript driver.
>>
>>I downloaded that and changed the driver on the server. Now on my PC,
>>it's
>>saying "printer not found on server". The share name is the same. If I
>>change it back to the PCL6 driver, my workstation finds the printer again.
>>I wasn't expecting it to work that way. Is that normal behavior? All I
>>changed was the driver on the server, not the share name.
>>
>>Thanks.
>>
> I think the 2605 is supported by the HP Universal Driver, you might try
> switching to that.
> --
> Dave Mills
> There are 10 types of people, those that understand binary and those that
> don't.


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