[BC] my troublesome HP Officejet 7000

[Jeff Glass]

In a message dated 2/23/10 3:19:16 PM Central Standard Time, 
broadcast-request at radiolists.net writes:

> As already mentioned, multiple paths to the same destination ( both it's 
own
>   IP and a share, or multiple shares to the same printer, ESPECIALLY 
multiple
>   shares via multiple machines ) will cause inordinately long delays 
while 
> the
>   *real* destination is located, and tested, as each will be tested in 
turn 
> to
>   determine routing, formatting, who has the "driver" etc. etc. etc.
>  
>   That's your most likely scenario as I understand it.
>   The "wrong" driver would also cause this, or the same printer 
"installed"
>   multiple times.
>  
>   Firstly, can you ping the printer ?
>   What's the pong time ? ( windows has remarkably short time outs for
>   things that should be longer, and remarkably long timeouts on things
>   that can be shortened by orders of magnitude. )
>  
>  -- 
>  Cowboy

Cowboy:

No multiple shares. The printer is shared via the computer to which the 
printer is connected (via USB; does not have a parallel port), and the only 
computer that's accessing this share is the network computer I'm using for 
over-the-network print testing. All drivers are up to date, and all of HP's 
diagnostic software says everything is fine. 

I was going to take this POS back to OrficeMax tonight and get my $$$ back, 
but I'm going to give Jason's suggestion a try and connect the printer 
directly to the network, given that it has that capability. 

I have a few days before the OrficeMax return policy times out, but I think 
Jason's suggestion is worth the time spent and is worth taking the risk. I 
have doubts about my USB performance so a network direct connection will 
take the USB off the suspect list.

Jeff Glass

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