RE: Re: [Thinkpad] Win98 on 600X won't print

Greetings:
If you can live with restarting your print jobs, I would begin this
suggestion with removing everything in the queue via the following:

If you want to remove all print jobs from the queue, choose Printer | Purge
Print Jobs. All pending print jobs are removed from the queue and are not
sent to the printer

I believe the best option would be to 'start from scratch', i.e. to remove
all that is in the print queue and begin anew with the simple test I
proposed. Given the volatile nature of the print queue, I suspect the best
option to effect this is to reboot your machine. I hope this is viable for
your situation.

I suspect that the purge print job may not complete, so give the PC a minute
before rebooting. This way, the reboot process should not have any spooled
output pending.

Once you have verified that the queue is indeed empty after reboot, start
your troubleshooting process until you observe a failure.

HTH

> -----Original Message-----
> From: thinkpad-bounces@stderr.org [mailto:thinkpad-bounces@stderr.org]On
> Behalf Of Dr. Jeffrey Race
> Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 2004 12:42 PM
> To: amblan57@verizon.net
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> Subject: Re: Re: [Thinkpad] Win98 on 600X won't print
>
>
> Everything is stuck in the printer queue, even if I print from
> the command line to LPT1.
>
> When I click Print in an ap, there is a note to the effect that
> several items are
> waiting in queue; "user invervention"
>
> No idea what to do. Everything is stuck in both parallel and
> serial printer queues.
>
> Jeffrey Race
> On Tue, 4 May 2004 10:23:59 -0500, amblan57@verizon.net wrote:
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> >Hello:
> >
> >Assuming the issue is to troubleshoot the hookup, I would go to
> a dos prompt and type in the
> following:
> >
> >echo hello > LPT1:
> >
> >or
> >
> >echo hello > COM<X>:
> >
> >where X can be the appropriate numeric for the COM port your
> printer is connected to (1-4,
> usually)
> >
> >With the first connection point there are typically no user
> settings; with the second you will
> most likely have to set the Baud Rate, parity, number of bits,
> etc, i.e. 'match' up these values
> with the settings Windows 98 configures for this (usually 9600 N
> 8 1, i.e. 9600 bits/s No parity,
> 8 data bits 1 Stop bit)
> >
> >To eject the paper you may have to issue a form feed, i.e.
> >
> >ctrl L
> >
> >or in actual keystrokes
> >
> >^L (Shift 6 and uppercase L) i.e.
> >
> >echo ^L > LPT1:
> >
> >If this works, then you have validated connectivity. Next, you
> should experiment with the
> appropriate GUI interface, i.e. the Printer driver display page,
> the Print Spool Window
> interface, etc.
>
>
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