Re: Suddenly phantom printer port

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From: Julian Thomas (jt_at_epix.net)
Date: Sat Sep 02 2000 - 19:32:33 EDT


In <4.3.2.7.0.20000901220104.01d41670_at_pilot.msu.edu>, on 09/01/00
   at 10:03 PM, "STeve Andre'" <andres_at_msu.edu> typed:

>The first thing I'd do is hook the printer up to another computer, to see
>if the printer is OK. The second thing would be to hook up another
>printer to the suspect computer. Doing those two things will give you a
>pretty good clue what's wrong.

One more thing that may shed some light - boot a dos diskette and see if
you can print from DOS. If you can, that tends to eliminate hardware.
 

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