Very strange effect when printing to Lexmark X75 over home..

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Thanks for the info, however what I did do was a clean uninstall of all
printers following the adivce of Bruce Sanderson's website, and then
reinstalled only the Lexmark, however this did not help.

Maybe I have a corrupted profile or something, as it seemed strange
that it worked for a while and then stopped.

BTW, I tried another thing (just to log it here in case someone else
has the same problem). I hooked the lexmark up to my laptop via USB,
and it printed well. I then made it available over the network and it
produced the same screen effect on the laptop this time.

Very strange

Dungo


Chuck Wrote:
> When you say switch off the Canon printer monitor, what exactly does-
> this involve? Does this mean just deactivate the printer?-
>
> No. The Canon printer drivers generally have an option to
> disable/enable
> the"BJ"status monitor buried in one of the printer driver settings
> windows,
> usually the maintaince window.
>
> "Dungo" Dungo.1uxqdr@pcbanter.net wrote in message
> newsungo.1uxqdr@pcbanter.net...-
>
> Hi Chuck,
>
> First of all thanks for replying! During the time that I posted the
> inital message I tried some other things such as changing the USB
> port
> that the Lexmark is connected to, however this did not help the
> problem.
>
> When you say switch off the Canon printer monitor, what exactly does
> this involve? Does this mean just deactivate the printer? I should
> say at this point that the Canon is not always attached and online,
> we
> only plug it in when needed to print.
>
> Also, as another point to my inital post, I am now wondering if I
> have
> caused the problem by some recent changes I made to the system. My
> problem was that the initial profile on the desktop PC had some
> problems, and I couldn't set privileges up to access both this and
> the
> notebook over the network. So What I did was set up a new profile,
> and
> then copied all the data from my documents, and the data from
> Application data across to the new profile. Maybe this is the
> problem?
>
> I will certainly try deactivating the Canon and seeing if this fixes
> the problem. I have also followed the links in some of the posts in
> this forum by Bruce Sanderson where he gives detailed instructions on
> how to rid your system of printer drivers so that a clean install is
> possible. Maybe this is worth a go next.
>
> I would still be interested to know if anyone else has seen the
> effect
> I originally showed on the screen shot of the desktop pc.
>
> Thanks again
>
> Duncan
>
>
>
>
> Chuck Wrote:-
> Try turning off the Canon print monitor. It can cause problems with
> other
> printers. Also, some printer drivers assume that the coresponding
> printer is
> the only printer attached to a USB port. Further, which USB port
> used
> with
> which printer may even have an effect.
>
> "Dungo" Dungo.1uu11o@pcbanter.net wrote in message
> newsungo.1uu11o@pcbanter.net...-
>
> Hello People!
>
> I have a very strange problem when trying to print to a network
> printer
> (Lexmark X75). I will give a list of my hardware, and what I am
> trying
> to do
>
> * Desktop PC (Dell Dimension 4600, purchased 2003) connected to
> D-Link
> 6-24+ wireless router, which is connected to a DSL modem for
> internet.
> * Dell Inspiron 6000 notebook (purchased 2005)
> * Small home network set up via the router which works perfectly for
> file transfer.
> * Lexmark X75 printer connected via USB to the Desktop PC (purchased
> 2003)
> * Canon photo printer connected via USB to Desktop PC (This is
> important for the subsequent discussion)
>
> When I first installed the Lexmark on the network a month ago, it
> printed perfectly, however as of a week ago the problems started.
>
> When I print to the Lexmark printer from the desktop PC, there is no
> problem it prints fine. When I connect to the lexmark from the
> notebook
> over the small network, there also seems to be no problem
> connecting,
> and in the printers and faxes view it is there, online, and I can
> even
> look into the preferences etc. However, when I try to print over
> the
> network, there is a problem with the pc, as a weird pop up window
> comes
> up in the centre of the screen which consists of white and brown
> lines
> which can only be removed by a pc restart. I have attached a screen
> shot to illustrate this. In terms of the printer, it comes out of
> standby as if it is about to print and then does nothing. Strangely
> though, when I restart the desktop pc the document prints out!!!
>
> I mentioned above that I also have a Canon photo printer connected
> via
> USB to the pc, and when I try to print to this over the network it
> works fine, which makes me think that it is not a network problem,
> but
> rather a Lexmark printer problem.
>
> I would really like to hear from other Lexmark owners to see if this
> has happened to them, or indeed from any expert that could help with
> this problem.
>
> Things that I have done to try and fix things;
>
> * Removal of Lexmark drivers on the pc, and then reinstall from cd
> that
> came with printer (done this a number of times now)... No change
> * Download of the drivers and 'clean uninstall' utility from the
> lexmark website... No change
> * Hit my head against the wall... No change
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated
>
> Cheers
>
> Dungo
>
>
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