Printer misbehaving hooked up to print server

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I bought an new laptop that doesn't have any parallel ports for my HPR80 all
in one. according to the HP web sight there was no way to convert it to
USB. As a last resort I decided to try to connect it to the wireless
network in my house using a printserver with a hard wire into the wireless
network hub. Well, miracle of miracles, I finally got the old HPR80 to work.
HOWEVER, I have a couple of problems:

1.When I send a large print job to the printer, the printer constantly
pauses, gives me an error message, restarts but prints the same page (or
part of it) dozens of times. It is almost as if the print buffer isn't big
enough - is
this possible? What can I do to resolve it?

2. When I send even a couple of pages to the printer, it may or may not
print correctly, it may stall, it may print the document twice or 1.5 times
All in all the printer is just unreliable to produce exactly what I want it
to.

Any advice will be greatfully received