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Windows Forum / Windows 98 / Printing and Faxing / July 2004computer wont print
Trying to pring & communications fault comes up,"unable to establish bi-directional communications with printer". Pressing continue on screen will allow printer to print. However, now printer will not print. Items show up in print queue & the queue sometimes shows items printing, but their not. Computer shows a spooling problem. Have used printers with another computer and it works. Used IBM recovery CD, & took computer to original settings. Reinstalled programs and printer. Same problem. Is there a fix? Could be your driver is corrupt, might try re-installing the driver after completely removing it. How to clean up printer drivers http://members.shaw.ca/bsanders/CleanPrinterDrivers.htm Go to the manufacturer's web site and look around for a driver upgrade for your printer. How to Troubleshoot Spool32 Error Messages http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;191949&Product=w98  SignatureMary Sauer MS MVP http://office.microsoft.com/ http://www.mvps.org/msauer/ news://msnews.microsoft.com > Trying to pring & communications fault comes up,"unable to > establish bi-directional communications with printer". [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > Reinstalled programs and printer. Same problem. Is there > a fix? Try a new printer cable. PattyL > Trying to pring & communications fault comes up,"unable to > establish bi-directional communications with printer". [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > Reinstalled programs and printer. Same problem. Is there > a fix? Can be a printer cable defect. Also can be the printer port not setup properly for ECP. Check your printer port in device manager. Ran across one printer that would not work with ECP/EPP combo set in bios. But, would work with only ECP set. Also look for resource conflicts with printer port. > Trying to pring & communications fault comes up,"unable to > establish bi-directional communications with printer". [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > Reinstalled programs and printer. Same problem. Is there > a fix? |
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