Printing Mulitpal copies on shared printer.

December 18, 2007

I am going to post here first but may have to go elsewhere but believe this

should be my first step.

I have a rather strange issue. I have a mixed network I am currently working

with that has Windows 2000 server, Windows 2000 pro and XP Pro machines

included.

Not a regular user of these machines I just discovered a strange issue. I

have two machines that both have HP5si printers attached. One of the

printers is attached to an XPPro machine and the other is connected to the

Win2000 server machine.

When I try to print from Note Pad or Word Pad using the File/Print not the

print icon on the tool bar, and I change the quanty to print more than one

copy I will still get only one copy. But if I use Word Viewer to open the

same file and change the quantity I get the correct number of prints.

Now for more details. This only happens if the default printer is the

printer attached to the Windows 2000 server machine. It don't matter if I am

printing to the Windows 2000 server printer or the XP printer I still get

only one copy from Note Pad and Word Pad.

Now if I change my default printer to be the one attached to the XP Machine

then try the same thing every thing works perfect. It will print multipal

copies to both the Win2000 Server printer and the XP Printer.

Any explaination for this?

Thanks

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