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HP 2000C unpredictable
When it's going, my HP 2000C is a beauty. However, it has these non-
cooperation attacks where it either fails to respond at all accompanied by all the front panel lights flashing or shows amber attention light and prints out an ink status page (all OK). Using the latest driver (XP) but exhibited the same behavior with Win2000. I've tried several parallel cables and with/without a switch box Any suggestions? John Mackesy |
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HP 2000C unpredictable
Suggest you connect it to a laptop or other desktop to rule out PC
hardware fault. Try a borrowed PCI parallel card to see if that stops the fault. You might try removing all software specific to the HP2000C and reinstalling the latest drivers. You may need to delete the drivers and reset the PC more than once - see: http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport...ectID=bpd05369 Perhaps the printer has an intermittent fault. It's no spring chicken is it? hope this helps, Peter On Sun, 23 Mar 2008 05:56:19 -0700 (PDT), John wrote: When it's going, my HP 2000C is a beauty. However, it has these non- cooperation attacks where it either fails to respond at all accompanied by all the front panel lights flashing or shows amber attention light and prints out an ink status page (all OK). Using the latest driver (XP) but exhibited the same behavior with Win2000. I've tried several parallel cables and with/without a switch box Any suggestions? John Mackesy |
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If I understand your posting, you have tried this same printer with two
different operating systems (and maybe even two different computers) with two different drivers and with several parallel cables and the results are the same, is that correct (you get intermittent no response, or LEDs flashing). Are the LED flashing patterns always the same? Have you attempted to document the LED flashes and tried to determine their meaning? Is there any rhyme or reason to the times these things occur (such as if the document is from a certain program, or has a certain number of pages or a certain size graphic, or a certain file size?) Or perhaps when certain other programs are open? Do you have any problems with paper feeding properly, or sensing? Does your hard drive have adequate clean space on it for printer spooling (probably would be on the C drive unless you've manually changed it). Intermittent problems are a real pain to track down, but if you can find a pattern to when it is occurring, that can be a hint as to what may be involved. Art John wrote: When it's going, my HP 2000C is a beauty. However, it has these non- cooperation attacks where it either fails to respond at all accompanied by all the front panel lights flashing or shows amber attention light and prints out an ink status page (all OK). Using the latest driver (XP) but exhibited the same behavior with Win2000. I've tried several parallel cables and with/without a switch box Any suggestions? John Mackesy |
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On Mar 24, 11:41 am, Arthur Entlich wrote:
If I understand your posting, you have tried this same printer with two different operating systems (and maybe even two different computers) with two different drivers and with several parallel cables and the results are the same, is that correct (you get intermittent no response, or LEDs flashing). At this distance I think I've been through all the hoops, tried with various O/S's, computers and cables and drivers. Seems to be an intermittent printer problem, which is as you say a real pain. I was hoping someone who'd encountered the same problem with this printer might be able to share their insight with me, to speed things up after I get stuck into it. Repair manual seems to unobtainium and the User Guide isn't that informative. My proposed next step is to take the thing completely apart, check the power supply voltages, security of connections and mechanical operation. I'd been hoping to avoid this... All suggestions gratefully received. John |
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On Mar 23, 8:23*pm, John wrote:
On Mar 24, 11:41 am, Arthur Entlich wrote: If I understand your posting, you have tried this same printer with two different operating systems (and maybe even two different computers) with two different drivers and with several parallel cables and the results are the same, is that correct (you get intermittent no response, or LEDs flashing). *At this distance I think I've been through all the hoops, tried with various O/S's, computers and cables and drivers. Seems to be an intermittent printer problem, which is as you say a real pain. I was hoping someone who'd encountered the same problem with this printer might be able to share their insight with me, to speed things up after I get stuck into it. Repair manual seems to unobtainium and the User Guide isn't that informative. My proposed next step is to take the thing completely apart, check the power supply voltages, security of connections and mechanical operation. I'd been hoping to avoid this... All suggestions gratefully received. John Have you tried different printer "data" cables (cable used the send print info to the printer?) I have also seen a wall power jack problem where the printer became "affected" becoase on an improper wiring (reverse polarity or bad groudnd.) |
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HP 2000C unpredictable
John wrote in news:7607e141-9dc6-4f34-9bc4-
: When it's going, my HP 2000C is a beauty. However, it has these non- cooperation attacks where it either fails to respond at all accompanied by all the front panel lights flashing or shows amber attention light and prints out an ink status page (all OK). Using the latest driver (XP) but exhibited the same behavior with Win2000. I've tried several parallel cables and with/without a switch box Any suggestions? John Mackesy Have you tried looking up the error code [2/3 down this page]? http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport.../Document.jsp? lang=en&cc=us&taskId=110&prodSeriesId=25517&prodTy peId=18972 &prodSeriesId=25517&objectID=bpd05587 I have often had a failing head give problems which come and go. Sam |
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