HP-LaserJet

Here's a page to describe some of the twitchy things we've discovered and work-arounds we've found for the HP LaserJet printers installed in the district.

HP Color LaserJet 4650 Setup
Are things getting simpler or ...

Setting up a connection from a Windows XP Pro HP desktop PC to a networked **HP Color LaserJet 4650DN**. Not quite the standard routine of having to walk the Novell/NDS "tree" to arrive at the established ASD tag-numbered print queue residing on a school server.

Went through the network wizard and had to choose the **TCP/IP address** based connection to the printer. (Tried using the wizard to connect via NDS, but later found that setting up a connection to a Novell-based queue is not supported in the Installer—I'd walk the tree, select the print queue, hit OK, and get a blank queue name field. Apparently, providing some type of visual or text-based feedback to the user is a bit too much to ask of HP.) Luckily, there is only one of these printers on our campus network, so I selected the printer on our static IP network strand, told the Installer to not use the **PCL6** driver, but to use the **PS** (Postscript) driver. Hit the numerous confirmation buttons and had to reboot the PC before I could have the //test page// and //software/driver update// routine complete.

HP LaserJet 4050 & 79.00FE PRINTER ERROR
Our Data Processing clerk reported having the above error message show repeatedly when she was trying to print some documents. She'd get a few pages, get the error message on the printer's control panel, cycle the power, get a page or two to come out, then the error message. After a little research, turns out she was trying to print an **Adobe Acrobat PDF** from the state of **AZ Dept. of Ed**. that had all kinds of graphics and fonts. The above error points to a problem with the **Postscript formatter** in the printer not understanding newer Postscript being sent to it. The clerk deleted the jobs that were queued up and no more messages.