HP 8150 printer

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<< Whilst not being used, the PC displays that the Printer has disconnected, I
double click the system tray printer icon and it connects straight back up
again. >>

Andi-

I suspect the message is the result of the 8150 going to sleep to save energy
and extend printer life. Normally it wakes up as soon as you initiate the next
print job.

Does it cause a problem when you try to print? If your computer refuses to
print to the sleeping printer, you may be able to go into the printer setup and
change the delay before it sleeps. It may be possible to set it to never
sleep.

The front panel menu system should have control of such parameters. If it were
an ethernet networked printer, you could access its internal web server to
change its settings. The HP utility program may work over USB as well.

Fred

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But then you don't get the tools telling you how much ink is left or what
the printer is doing.

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Andi.

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"Christian Dürrhauer" <cduerr@geog.fu-berlin.de> wrote in message
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> On the seventh day, Andi Cole wrote...
>
> > I have an HP 8150 connected to a Windows XP SP2 PC with a USB cable
attached
> > to an extension USB cable.
> >
> > Whilst not being used, the PC displays that the Printer has
disconnected, I
> > double click the system tray printer icon and it connects straight back
up
> > again.
> >
> > Anyone know how I can stop thsi happening?
>
> I'd connect such working horses by using ethernet print servers. USB is
> mainly cheap and causes all kinds of troubles, although it is a big
> improvement over some of the cheap serial stuff on COM1/2.
>
> --
> mit freundlichen Grüßen/with kind regards
> Christian Dürrhauer, Institute of Geography, FU Berlin
>
> 100,000 lemmings can't be wrong.