PRINTING PROBLEM WITH XP PRO, USB OR NETWORK

[Guest nepeanmotorgroup@gmail.com]

I have a XP PRO machine with a strange printer problem, installed a

new HP multifunction printer via USB then about 2 months later it

refused to print, yet you could print from another machine to the

printer through shared printing.

 

Tried reinstall of drivers, no good, then restarted spooler service -

fixed! the spooler was running already & had no errors came up, also

when you bring up the print que it shows no jobs from the pc it is

installed on, yet when another pc shares it you see the job go through

normaly

 

Restarting machine does not help, you have to restart spooler

manually! the problem presented itself on & off over the next few

weeks with no pattern, I did a regclean with MS regclean, then another

using Freeregistrycleaner, still no good

 

Gave up & switched the user over to a network Laser printer next to

the other printer, all ok for another few weeks, now it is back to

playing up again

 

Anybody got any ideas? I am almost ready to format & start again

 

Michael