Windows NT Printing Blank Pages

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Mike Johnston

My client's using terminal services starting printing blank pages today. All
clients and all printers. Everything worked fine yesterday. Any ideas on a
fix or what to look for?

Mike
 
Mike,
Which Server / Client OS does this happen on ? You can try to uninstall the
printer drivers from the server (Control Panel /Printers / Server Settings /
Drivers / Remove) to see if it helps.

Thanks,
Makarand [MSFT]

"Mike Johnston" <MikeJohnston@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:DAFC6104-478F-4E64-BC08-3755FCEB1291@microsoft.com...
> My client's using terminal services starting printing blank pages today.
> All
> clients and all printers. Everything worked fine yesterday. Any ideas on
> a
> fix or what to look for?
>
> Mike
 
Server is 2000 client is XP pro. Although this makes no sense to me I found
that the Print Spooler on the server had stopped. The clients were still
seeing the their printers and they were spitting out blank pages. Restarting
the spooler solved the problem but a review of the logs does not show how or
why the spooler stopped. Thanks for the assistance.

Mike

"Makarand [MS]" wrote:

> Mike,
> Which Server / Client OS does this happen on ? You can try to uninstall the
> printer drivers from the server (Control Panel /Printers / Server Settings /
> Drivers / Remove) to see if it helps.
>
> Thanks,
> Makarand [MSFT]
>
> "Mike Johnston" <MikeJohnston@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:DAFC6104-478F-4E64-BC08-3755FCEB1291@microsoft.com...
> > My client's using terminal services starting printing blank pages today.
> > All
> > clients and all printers. Everything worked fine yesterday. Any ideas on
> > a
> > fix or what to look for?
> >
> > Mike
>
>
 
A crashing print spooler is often caused by a 3rd party printer
driver which is not TS compatible.
If this happens regularly, uninstall all 3rd party drivers and map
the printers to native drivers.
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Vera Noest
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<MikeJohnston@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote on 22 aug 2007 in
microsoft.public.windows.terminal_services:

> Server is 2000 client is XP pro. Although this makes no sense
> to me I found that the Print Spooler on the server had stopped.
> The clients were still seeing the their printers and they were
> spitting out blank pages. Restarting the spooler solved the
> problem but a review of the logs does not show how or why the
> spooler stopped. Thanks for the assistance.
>
> Mike
>
> "Makarand [MS]" wrote:
>
>> Mike,
>> Which Server / Client OS does this happen on ? You can try to
>> uninstall the printer drivers from the server (Control Panel
>> /Printers / Server Settings / Drivers / Remove) to see if it
>> helps.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Makarand [MSFT]
>>
>> "Mike Johnston" <MikeJohnston@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote
>> in message
>> news:DAFC6104-478F-4E64-BC08-3755FCEB1291@microsoft.com...
>> > My client's using terminal services starting printing blank
>> > pages today. All
>> > clients and all printers. Everything worked fine yesterday.
>> > Any ideas on a
>> > fix or what to look for?
>> >
>> > Mike
 
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