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Offline printer issue

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Hey all, we have a HPM401dn printer that I installed on a print server a while back....recently it started saying the printer is offline....not sure why.  I can still ping the IP of the printer and access it via a web browser.  No other printer on the print server has this issue.  The server is a 2008 64bit server.

I reinstalled the drivers, changed the IP, changed the share name...nothing seems to work.  Not sure if it is a bad port or cable but I don't think it is since I can ping it and access it via the web browser as mentioned earlier.

Any ideas?


Managing Printers when Users Print to Mailboxes

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Hi all,

In our environment we have users printing multiple documents simultaneously that need to go out as one package. Everyone prints to the same printer, and so to stop interleaving documents, we print to mailboxes (Canon ir-ADV C5051)

I would like to find a way to automatically assign each user a mailbox, and create the print profile from the print server, and push the settings out through GP. We currently have our printers distributed by GP, but we have to set the "Store" destination to a default mailbox and have the users update it before printing.


This becomes an issue when our terminal servers reset the printer preferences and users end up printing to an unknown mailbox.

My solution (which would be tedious) would be to create a separate printer for each user, setting the respective mailbox as the default setting, and assigning the...

How to bulk manage printers

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Hello, I work at a company where we manage over 50 printers. The customer wants us to set the print defaults to: B/W, dubble paper and A4.

Is there a way like a GPO or select all and edit the printers once?

Doing it manual with every printer is gonna take ages :(

We have Samsung printers that all use the same driver PCL6. We use Print Management from Windows Server 2008 R2.

Printer Alerts in Spiceworks

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So I've noticed I get two kinds of alerts from Spiceworks regarding our multi-function printer devices:

Magenta Photoconductive Drum has less than 10% remaining on x.x.x.x

and 

Cyan Developer has less than 10% remaining on x.x.x.x

What's the difference between the Drum and Developer alerts? I've seen instances of both alerts for the same color on the same printer, and instances of different alerts for different colors on the same printer. I was never "the printer guy" - I'm lost! 

The printers in question are multi-function Sharp units - do these have separate toner and some kind of developer solution?

Regards,
Rob

PCL XL error on HP printers

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This is the error we're getting when some people try to print to networked printers installed on a Windows 2008 R2 print server:

PCL XL error
subsystem: kernel
error: IllegalOperatorSequence
operator: beginpage
position: 1217

The "position" line number always changes.

I have done plenty of research and troubleshooting, and this is what I know:

The problem started out of nowhere, but I suspect it was right after Microsoft's patch day September 9th. The printers have been on the network and configured the same way for well over a year. The people who are having the errors were printing perfectly fine for well over a year. The problem affects a wide variety of users in multiple departments and multiple different printer models, all of them HP. All users are using Windows 7. Some users have the issue, while others with the same model laptop...

RightFax Communications Error #53

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Unable to initialize communication the fax server "rightfax" (error #53)

This happens when I try to send a fax straight from an application such as word.

What would this have to do with?

Zebra ZM400

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Getting a print head error on my Zebra ZM400 any ideas on a fix.

Zebra 105SL Printing Multiple Labels

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We have Zebra 105SL thermal printers in our shop and one has suddenly started acting up. It will print a label normally but then spit out two blank ones. I've power cycled it and checked general settings and nothing seems to fix it. Any suggestions?If needed, these print from a Windows XP machine from a Bradbury machine software.


Zebra printer sensors

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So I got a ticket in from a user today about a zebra s4m that was printing "wonky" as they put it so I went and had a look. Turns out when this printer is powered on it spits out 3 labels and then the screen informs you that the head is open (which it is not) and it is out of media (it still has a full roll).

I've tried calibrations but to no avail. It simply refuses to see the labels.

TL;DR version:

  • Zebra S4M
  • Setup for direct thermal transfer (no ribbon)
  • Set to detect gap notch for label detection.

Keeps claiming the head is open and that the media has run out.

Any and all help on this would be greatly appreciated.

Zebra ZM4plus driver

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Anyone know of a source for Win 7 64 bit drivers for a Zebra ZM4 Plus? The product has been discontinued. The drivers aren't on the website and all I've found were the Zebra Universal Drivers - which isn't designed for 64 bit.

Any issues using the ZM400 driver with the ZM4 Plus?

Printers are in great shape, and don't feel the need to replace them yet. We have upgraded most everyone to Windows 7. Production floor is the last, and cannot upgrade until we get all these little issues like this,  resolved.

Replacement for Zebra Z6M printer

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Looking for a label printer, had Zebra z6m and that one stopped working. Looking for same one or the similar one to z6m. Used / refurbished around $600. Where do you guys buy a used or refurbished printers for good prices?

Printer Utility????

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Good Afternoon,

   Is there a Network Printer Utility that can tell us when a network printer goes offline or more importantly when a group of them go offline?

Thanks

Andrew

System Error: Code F245 for Kyocera FS 6525 MFP

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We had a power outage for a couple of hours. When we turned on the Kyocera FS 6525, we got the error code F245. I cannot find any info on this can anyone help? 

VBS Script to remove local printers

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Hello, I have been creating a VBS script to first remove printers and then add them. The problem is that some workstations have added the printers manual on local port.

How do I remove local port printers without knowing anything about them like an IP or name? Is there just a simple line for or.....???

Here is the script I made:

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Dim strComputer,strIPAddress,strIPRangeDim objNetworkDim IPConfigSet, IPConfigDim arrIPAddressSub RemovePrinters(strSearch) Set oNetwork = CreateObject("WScript.Network") strComputer = oNetwork.ComputerName Set oWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!\\" & strComputer & "\root\cimv2") Set colInstalledPrinters = oWMIService.ExecQuery("Select * from Win32_Printer") For Each oPrinter in colInstalledPrinters If InStr(UCase(oPrinter.Name), UCase(strSearch)) > 0 Then oPrinter.Delete_ End...

cannot connect to the printer 0x00000057

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I have a computer that was working yesterday that suddenly will not connect to any printers on our print server. when I try to connect to the printer I am getting

windows cannot connect to the printer operation failed with error 0x00000057

this is driving me nuts as I can't see why this is happening and the user needs the printer. I have full admin rights to this machine. Google revels lots of people with this issue an no solutions.

hoping someone can help me


Unable to print issue.

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I have one location that has a Konica Minolta printer with a fixed IP. As there are only four users I have the software installed on each desktop/laptop rather than having it shared from a server.  One by one last week the users lost the ability to print to this printer.  I can open the web interface from each workstation so obviously there is a network connection, but not only can they not print, when I type in the administrative password in that web interface, it fails to bring up the management interface.

If I connect a laptop directly to the printer, all works fine.  All other networking functions appear to be working normally, including VoIP phones.

With all of you bright souls out there, I am hoping one or more of you have resolved a similar issue and can give me some ideas.

Thanks,

Stan

pdf quality print

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Hello ,

I have design jet printer with roll when print from autocad the quality is good

but when try to print from pdf the quality is very poor (color print)

I have latest driver for my printer and convert pdf file to image the result the same

and try print form another pc also the same poor quality color

and replace all ink for printer also the same result .

any suggestion ?

thanks

Scan to Network not working - Brother MFC-8810DW

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I have a Brother MFC-8810DW (and a MFC-8510) that I am trying to configure the Scan to Network for. I am trying to scan to a network share on a Windows Server 2012 (standard). I have gone into the web interface and setup the scan profile. I get an Authentication error if I put the server IP rather than the server name. With the server name (see attached for current settings) I get a Sending Error.

I can access the share via computer and even add & delete files. I talked with Brother support and they say that Server 2012 is not compatible, but I am not sure why that would matter since I am just saving to a share location and not running the Control Center software on the server.

Anyone have any thoughts as to what I am doing wrong, or what I can do to make this work.

EDIT: I have the correct Server name and Domain name set in the...

Printing ZPL from file allocation

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We have a system set up to ship orders that requires the zpl files be downloaded locally.  I am able to send the file using the Zebra setup utility, but for the folks in the warehouse it will be too time consuming to do it that way.  Is there a program or something that would let me associate the zpl files with it and simply run the zpl which would send it to the printer?  I know I could probably rig something up to FTP the file to the printer, but I wanted to see if there was something out there to save some time.

Canon Irc5185 system firmware

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Hi everybody,

I am new to this forum, so please be patient. I have an imagerunner c5185 copier that had a failed HDD. I have replaced the HDD, but after much searching, have been unable to locate the system firmware/ software that the copier requires to run. Because the 80GB HDD failed, we were unable to salvage any firmware or software off it.
I would be immensely grateful if anyone can assist me with a link or place to download.

Thanks in advance... :) 

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