From: Chuck Blaisdell (cblaisd_at_tdl.com)
Date: Sat Sep 23 2000 - 19:48:58 EDT
On 1 Sep 2000, at 22:03, STeve Andre' wrote:
> 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.
>
> If both work, then you have one of the just wondrous spontaneous
> Windows mess ups, and I'm not sure what is the best course for
> that. Off hand, I'd delete every printer in the system--every one--
> and then reboot, then add that printer again.
Steve and all who answered.... Thank you. It ends up that it was
one of those mysterious Windows things. When I went through
device manager and manually changed the configuration of the LPT
port (enduring all sorts of warnings about PnP), the printer port
again works fine.
Weird.
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