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| Thread ID: 36178 | 2003-08-02 06:24:00 | HP Laserjet 5L | Sami (667) | Press F1 |
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| 164647 | 2003-08-02 06:24:00 | Adding to the list of problems since I upgraded to XP, my printer is now giving me grief. I have upgraded the printer driver to ij631en.exe which should make it compatible with XP. It will print a one page document in Word most of the time, but when I attempt to print from a scanned document or a PDF file it prints two thirds on the first page and then the remainder on the bottom of a second sheet of paper. Neither HP support, nor the local OEM who put together my machine, have been able to help. They feel it may be a memory problem. I have 128 RAM and the printer has 1Mb of onborard RAM. 4Mb RAM for the printer now costs $270! Cheaper I guess to buy a new printer! |
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| 164648 | 2003-08-02 08:17:00 | Previous o/s's (win95, 98 etc) supported a 'host' driver for the 5L, where the computer handled the 'rasterisation' of the printout, so the 5L coped admirably with only 1MB of memory. HP have not bothered with a host driver for XP, and so you have to use the generic PCL driver, which is far more demanding on printer resources. The bottom line being, you won't be able to satisfactorily print out a lot of .pdfs, web pages (pages with graphics etc). You will have a degree more success lowering the resolution to 300dpi, but a lot of printouts then look terrible. The 5L is a bit of an orphan with it's JEIDA memory card requirement, so a new printer is probably the answer. | wuppo (41) | ||
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