[BC] Hanging, locking computers

[Jeff Glass]

In a message dated 2/22/10 1:33:57 PM Central Standard Time, 
broadcast-request at radiolists.net writes:

> Jeff Glass sayeth: "The immediate problem at hand is, after installing an 
HP 
> OfficeJet 7000 printer, it takes two minutes for the "printer" dialog box 
to 
> appear on a network client machine. Even after waiting the two minutes, 
the 
> print job never starts. When that happens, the application that initiated 
the 
> print job stops responding.  All other network functionality is normal. 
The 
> old Epson C88 printer never exhibited these problems."
>  
>  I have learned never to use the CD that comes with HP printers.  Lately, 
> more often than not, the CD's drivers are either defective or outdated.  
> Download the latest drivers from HP's web site, remove the existing ones 
and 
> install from your download.
>  
>  Sid Schweiger

Sid,

I have the same policy about this as you do. The downloaded driver set from 
HP helped, but it did not fix the problem. Hang time dropped fro two 
minutes down to a minute and 15 sec. I also downloaded a printer test utility from 
HP that reported that my printer is OK; no surprise there because it's fast 
when the local computer prints to it (the OfficeJet 7000). HP also has a 
web utility where they peek at your system to see if the HP drivers are up to 
date. No problems found there either. 

This is so typical of Hp's crap. Not sure if I'll just use it off network, 
or take the stupid thing back. It prints 11 X 17, so I could simply send the 
documents to be printed to that computer, and print them locally. That 
defeats the purpose of having a network. Sigh :-(

Jeff Glass</HTML>