Win 2000 Pro Printing Prob Update

[Guest roback@earthlink.net]

I appreciate the feedback yesterday. I dumped my drivers both from

within the control panel and in the registry. I uplugged the printer,

turned off the spooler service, and shut down / rebooted computer. I

then turned printer on, reconnected cable and restarted the computer.

The problem still exists. Upon startup, gibberish comes out of the

printer, and upon printing any document, gibberish comes out. This all

started from within a visual basic app, when I went to print a form

without indicating a date range on the form. It is a billing program. I

am at a loss. Any additional info would be appreciated.

[Guest Sid Elbow]

Re: Win 2000 Pro Printing Prob Update

 

roback@earthlink.net wrote:

> I appreciate the feedback yesterday. I dumped my drivers both from

> within the control panel and in the registry. I uplugged the printer,

> turned off the spooler service, and shut down / rebooted computer. I

> then turned printer on, reconnected cable and restarted the computer.

> The problem still exists. Upon startup, gibberish comes out of the

> printer, and upon printing any document, gibberish comes out. This all

> started from within a visual basic app, when I went to print a form

> without indicating a date range on the form. It is a billing program. I

> am at a loss. Any additional info would be appreciated.

 

Just a thought because I don't think it was mentioned: is the printer

connected via a print server? I went through a similar problem until I

realised the print server was buffering the printer data and had to be

rebooted to flush it.