Have you downloaded the latest drivers for your HP printer.

I started getting the same type of problems with an HP 970Cse along with my
parallel port
print speed dropping through  the floor.  If you don't have the latest
driver, you will be unable
to turn off the HP I/O in order to speed up the old LPT printing.

Unfortunately, I've ended up turning off the HP printer and using only my
Laser Printer since I
couldn't get any assistance from HP.

Mark C. Barron

At 10:38 1/25/01, you wrote:
>A friend of mine has a problem with printing.  The problem originally
>started as his Epson printer not feeding paper correctly.  He bought a
>new HP printer around Christmas (with both parallel and USB connections).
>  The HP prints a garbled mess, one or two lines per page, until the paper
>runs out.  We've tried the HP on both parallel and USB ports with the
>same results.  He's replaced the parallel cable with a new HP certified
>bi-directional cable.  Both printers work fine on his notebook computer,
>through either parallel or USB connections!  Where should we look to
>solve this problem?
>
>My first thought was to disable the onboard parallel connection and
>install a parallel port card.  But I think the problem is more involved
>than that because the USB printer connection doesn't work either.  He
>does have a parallel port scanner installed (Storm? brand).  The scanner
>isn't working either.  The printers have been tried with and without the
>scanner connected (but not removing the scanner software & drivers).
>
>The desktop computer is a generic make with an AMD K6 cpu, and (I think)
>a Tyan motherboard, 64 MB ram, 4 GB hard drive (less than half used),
>parallel port scanner, etc, running Windows 98 SE.

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