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More info?)
Yes. I have discovered that it will print with word perfect but converted
files from microsoft office just give a bunch of character and symbols.
Don't know why.
Definitely a problem somewhere. My computer had the explorer removed and
other items changed. Fortunately, back up took it back to good settings for
the program. microsoft downloaded the sp2 package yesterday and maybe that
will solve the problems. Spy bot, Ad Aware and microsoft anti virus all say
nothing is wrong.
Thanks for the reply. If I can only use word perfect to print, i can live
with that.
"Thomas Ferguson" wrote:
> Has this printer ever operated properly with this computer with the Windows
> XP operating system?
>
> If no:
>
> The usual problem that gives the symptoms you describe is the setting for
> the LPT port in the computer's BIOS. If set for EPP or ECP or ESC&EPP, it
> can happen that the data is sent to the printer too rapidly.
>
> The fix at your disposal is to change the setting for the port the printer
> uses to standard parallel port. The language used for the setting differs as
> between BIOSs. Look for something like SPP, bi-directional printer port,
> standard or the like.
>
> OK out and save the setting change.
>
> Allow the computer to re-boot.
>
> Let us know.
>
> Tom
> MSMVP
> Windows Shell/User
>
>
> "Hopeless" <Hopeless@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:6C4FB9BE-BD4D-448A-A746-56855583341C@microsoft.com...
> : The self testing on the printer tests ok. It will print out a test page
> when
> : I set up the printer ok. XP did not recognize the printer to set it up
> : automatically and I had to install it manually. I had one page print
> : properly from Corel. After that, it just prints a bunch of charachters
> and
> : it seems to load thebuffer in the printer up with garbage. Any ideas of
> : where the problem is and how to fix it?
>
>
>