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Printer partially ejects on cold boot
Windows XP Pro SP-1
HP DeskJet 970Cse (parallel port) When my computer system is turned on (cold boot), the printer starts up. Its head starts moving back and forth (that's typical) but it also feeds in a sheet of paper (not typical). However, the paper feed stops with the edge of the paper just after the exit rollers so it is stuck partially inserted. On occasion, and after a couple minutes, it will fully eject the paper, but it should never have injected the paper in the first place. This is not a Windows driver problem. This occurs immediately on bootup and is probably before the POST even completes. I know a reset gets sent to all devices to put them into a known state. The printer is connected to the parallel port. No operating system is even loaded at the point when the printer starts going through its power-on throes. If the printer is off when the computer is powered on and I later turn on the printer, no problem. If I power on the printer with the parallel cable detached, no problem. So it is the initialization of the parallel port that causes the problem (and when the printer is on during that initialization). Other than having to remember to power off the printer before powering up the computer, got any suggestions as to a fix? What could the parallel port be sending to the printer that would make it partially inject (and not fully eject) a sheet of paper? Why would powering up the parallel port even send a paper feed to the printer? -- __________________________________________________ __________ *** Post replies to newsgroup. Share with others. *** Email: domain = ".com" and append "=NEWS=" to Subject. __________________________________________________ __________ |
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