Windows 2000 Printing Mulitpal copies on shared printer.

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Vince

I am going to post here first but may have to go elsewhere but believe this
should be my first step.

I have a rather strange issue. I have a mixed network I am currently working
with that has Windows 2000 server, Windows 2000 pro and XP Pro machines
included.

Not a regular user of these machines I just discovered a strange issue. I
have two machines that both have HP5si printers attached. One of the
printers is attached to an XPPro machine and the other is connected to the
Win2000 server machine.

When I try to print from Note Pad or Word Pad using the File/Print not the
print icon on the tool bar, and I change the quanty to print more than one
copy I will still get only one copy. But if I use Word Viewer to open the
same file and change the quantity I get the correct number of prints.

Now for more details. This only happens if the default printer is the
printer attached to the Windows 2000 server machine. It don't matter if I am
printing to the Windows 2000 server printer or the XP printer I still get
only one copy from Note Pad and Word Pad.

Now if I change my default printer to be the one attached to the XP Machine
then try the same thing every thing works perfect. It will print multipal
copies to both the Win2000 Server printer and the XP Printer.

Any explaination for this?

Thanks
 
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