Re: Re: [Micronet] HP Laserjet 4100 printer problem

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From: Bruce Satow (satow@ssl.berkeley.edu)
Date: Mon Jul 14 2003 - 11:47:06 PDT

It's probally not the printer. You can verify this by unpluging the network
connection from the printer and/or usb and/or parallel cables so that it is not
connected to anything and letting it running in standalone mode.

Gordon Vrdoljak wrote:

> Could also be a word macro virus. Scan your computer with norton.
>
> At 10:47 AM 7/14/2003 -0700, Jon Forrest wrote:
> >At 02:35 PM 7/11/2003, Eric Fong wrote:
> >>Hello:
> >>
> >>Our department has an HP Laserjet 4100N which has a printing problem
> >>that's baffling to me. It seems that every hour or so, it starts
> >>printing 2 pages. One looks like the beginning of an HP test print page
> >>(the "Congratulations") picture on top, followed by lots of symbols and
> >>two thick black lines below them. The next page is an e-mail that was
> >>sent on May 7, 2003 that I guess someone had wanted printed. I also
> >>found out just now, that these pages have been printing on a daily basis
> >>since May 7, but no one told me up to now. I tried turning off the RAM
> >>disk, but that didn't seem to do anything. I'm not familiar with these
> >>kinds of printer problems, so I'm asking people for their
> >>suggestions. Worse comes to worse, we call WHSG for someone to come
> >>up. So, any ideas? Thanks.
> >
> >I've seen this too. It's probably due to somebody
> >trying to print to your printer, but their spooler thinks the job
> >failed so it resubmits the job every day.
> >
> >I suggest using a network monitoring program,
> >such as tcpdump, to find the source of the print
> >job.
> >
> >Jon
> >
> >
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