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Name: metalinspired (by EDY)
Date: August 6, 2008 at 05:30:45 Pacific
OS: Windows XP
CPU/Ram: Athlon X2 6000+/2GB
Product: ASUS M2N4-SLI
Comment:

Is there a command to enable/dissable bidirectional printing support? One of my printers only works if bidirectional printing is off, and to make things more complicated once the PC gets restarted it's bidirectional printing has to be turned on than turned off for printer to work correctly. It gets frustrating when I try to print only to remember that I didn't do the procedure. It would be simplier to make a batch file that would run every time I log on. Cheers



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Response Number 1
Name: Jennifer SUMN
Date: August 6, 2008 at 08:21:13 Pacific
Reply:

What's the printer make/model?

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Response Number 2
Name: StuartS
Date: August 6, 2008 at 10:53:19 Pacific
Reply:

The make and model would be useful. Sounds more like a driver problem than anything else.

Stuart


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Response Number 3
Name: metalinspired (by EDY)
Date: August 6, 2008 at 22:57:57 Pacific
Reply:

It's HP LaserJet 1020.

I forgot to mention that if I don't turn on/off bidirectional support all the pages that were in queue print out when I reboot.


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Response Number 4
Name: Jennifer SUMN
Date: August 7, 2008 at 15:50:36 Pacific
Reply:

Did you look on HP's site?

http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/...

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Response Number 5
Name: metalinspired (by EDY)
Date: August 8, 2008 at 04:42:30 Pacific
Reply:

Yes and it didn't help. Like I said I can print normaly once I enable than disable bidirectional support. Otherwise I need to reboot host PC to get the queued pages to print.


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Response Number 6
Name: Jennifer SUMN
Date: August 8, 2008 at 07:45:55 Pacific
Reply:

So none of those three workarounds is acceptable?

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Response Number 7
Name: XpUser
Date: August 8, 2008 at 08:12:32 Pacific
Reply:

Mind telling us which of the two kind of parallel cables you are using - the "old" standard IBM Printer cable, or the "newer" IEEE-1284 bi-directional cable?

i_Xp/VistaUser


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Response Number 8
Name: metalinspired (by EDY)
Date: August 8, 2008 at 08:41:47 Pacific
Reply:

Actually printer is connected using USB cable not parallel.


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