HP 4000 Laser printer problems.

[EvilHomer]

I have a friend that does not want to get rid of his Old HP 4000 LJ printer....the thing has worked great forever...he recently upgraded his computer and it did not have a parallel port so we hooked it up via USB with a Parallel - USB adapter. the problem is that I can not get it to keep working well....It will work great for a little while then it just prints really slow and sometimes prints jarble ..I have tried alot of different drivers but I can not get it to print consistantly ...It almost seems seems to keep defaulting to a bad driver or something...

any Ideas ..???

 

[corkyg]

I have the same printer, and it performs perfectly. What I did was install a LAN card in the printer, and then use it as a network printer with 3 machines with Cat 5 cable - XP, Vista, and Win 7. Nary a problem that way.

 

[EvilHomer]

ok great ill try that ..any specific lan card / driver you are using...???

 

[corkyg]

ok great ill try that ..any specific lan card / driver you are using...???

I honestly don't recall - but it was a Gderman knock-off of this:

http://www.getthatpart.com/shop42/product.php?productid=100298

I got it off the shelf at Fry's Electronics in Burbank a couple of years ago. It uses the HP Directnet driver.

 

[gsaldivar]

If the printer doesn't already have a network card, install one for $10 and put the printer on the network.

http://shop.ebay.com/i.html?LH_BIN=...&_sticky=1&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_sop=15&_sc=1

 

[gsaldivar]

See page 164 / C-7:

http://bizsupport1.austin.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/bpl05328/bpl05328.pdf