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Installed XP ProSP1 from the ground up on new hardware (Intel 865 chipset),
all post sp critical hotfixes installed. Then installed a Lexmark 3150 per
the Lexmark instructions (i.e. cancelled all the 'found new...' messages).
Everything went smoothly, no problems, printer prints, scans, faxes, does
OCR and all that wonderful stuff.
However, when I print the job won't delete from the spool after printing is
complete, it just sits there with the status message 'deleting'. To get the
job to delete I have to cycle the printer (this works most of the time,
sometimes I have to stop the spooler, delete the spl files then boot).
Needless to say I think this is a stupid solution.
Lexmark says 'reinstall' but as I've done that about 5 times (even followed
the instructions from the guy at shaw.ca) and run into the same problem -
I'm starting to get really p*&%$d with it. In fact one of the reasons for
installing on new hardware was the thought that my old hardware was the
source of the problem - silly me (at least I ended up with a faster box).
I see similar kinds of problems (but not quite like this) reported in this
group but there appears to be a lack of solid solutions. Could this be USB
related (I've a satellite modem and mouse on usb as well as the printer) or
has Lexmark sold me junky hardware and/or software?
grrrrrrrrrr!!!!
Installed XP ProSP1 from the ground up on new hardware (Intel 865 chipset),
all post sp critical hotfixes installed. Then installed a Lexmark 3150 per
the Lexmark instructions (i.e. cancelled all the 'found new...' messages).
Everything went smoothly, no problems, printer prints, scans, faxes, does
OCR and all that wonderful stuff.
However, when I print the job won't delete from the spool after printing is
complete, it just sits there with the status message 'deleting'. To get the
job to delete I have to cycle the printer (this works most of the time,
sometimes I have to stop the spooler, delete the spl files then boot).
Needless to say I think this is a stupid solution.
Lexmark says 'reinstall' but as I've done that about 5 times (even followed
the instructions from the guy at shaw.ca) and run into the same problem -
I'm starting to get really p*&%$d with it. In fact one of the reasons for
installing on new hardware was the thought that my old hardware was the
source of the problem - silly me (at least I ended up with a faster box).
I see similar kinds of problems (but not quite like this) reported in this
group but there appears to be a lack of solid solutions. Could this be USB
related (I've a satellite modem and mouse on usb as well as the printer) or
has Lexmark sold me junky hardware and/or software?
grrrrrrrrrr!!!!