From: by way of MAGNet mailing list administrator (forrest@ce.berkeley.edu)
Date: Mon Jul 14 2003 - 11:51:57 PDT
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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