HP LaserJet 4050 help

[sktsee]

On Sun, 2007-07-15 at 20:46 +0100, SteVe Cook wrote: 
> Wade Smart wrote:
> > Wade Smart wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I was just given a HP LaserJet 4050. Its great. But, I cant get it 
> >>>>> to run on Fiesty. Its connected via parallel cable. I clicked on 
> >>>>> Printers under System, clicked New Printer. It found it and 
> >>>>> installed. When I clicked Print Test Page nothing happened. It is 
> >>>>> seeing the configuration of the printer but isnt printing. In the 
> >>>>> Wiki someone said it was working under 5.04 so I know it works. The 
> >>>>> hpijs files are already installed.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Ideas?
> >>>>>
> This may be a red herring but, I've been trying to hunt down a BIOS 
> setting that occasionally affect some parallel printer but can't find 
> it.  I may be imagining it as I've just looked at he BIOS settings on 
> one of my machines and can't spot any thing.
> 
> SteVe
> 
> 

I think what you are referring to are the BIOS EPP/ECP settings for the
parallel port. Some people have had problems when the port was set for
EPP + ECP. Usually just choosing ECP support fixed the problem.

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