[BC] Hanging, locking computers

[Jason R. at KGVL - KIKT]

One thing I discovered with a Networked 7050HP was that several users were 
trying to shove their jobs through as 'Administrators' - NOT computer 
admins, but printer admins. That's great.  Everybody's job is the most 
important.

  Another big issue was too many users trying to SHARE the same printer. 
(Vista did it For you, want it or not, you gotta turn it OFF manually.)

  Our printer was exhibiting the same symptoms as you describe.

Ou OLD HP printer has it's own server; but the users kept trying to share 
the printer! uhhh, why?

Creating multiple paths to the printer by sharing it all over the place 
means there's no single straight path from any machine but one to the 
printer.
Duh. don't share it. The printer has a print server, why do we need 
somebody's PC somewhere to share it...??

Second problem... set the stuff to print after last page is spooled, rather 
than printing immediately. oN EACH pc. Let the printer handle the queue.

third... I used a fixed IP for the thing.

Last - go ahead and use the HP printer discovery software, and create a port 
etc. instead of letting windows try to do it.

  Doing that fixed ALL of the weird problems, slow prints, etc. and things 
print fine now, about a dozen machines looking at the same printer no 
problems.  (Next task is to put it on a server...)

Jason..

>
> 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>