Hal Seabolt wrote:
>
> Recently I allowed my grand kids to surf the net, with my 586-133.
> The attached HP 660c was used to print.
> Now when the printer is turned on it loads a sheet of paper, the status
> light indicates printer busy or receiving a document.
>  When actually told to print the pre-loaded sheet is ejected with a
> varying length line similar to this,(N@NNNNNNNNNN@N),the number of
> characters varies. Printer will then print next in queue, but after a
> short time, the message "computewr lost communication with printer"
> comes up.
>  Printer works perfectly on another machine and a dot matrix printer
> works fine on this computer.
> Any suggestions as to probable cause, on board parr. port bad, or what
> do you think?
>                  TIA
>                  Hal Seabolt
Hal,

I just installed an HP Deskjet 560C and removed an Okidata Microline
(which for some reason I had to install it for the computer to read as
an IBM Proprinter for it to work).

I configured it as my default printer and had no problem printing from a
webpage.  However, I had the same problem you had when I tried to print
a Quicken report.  I eventually figured out that although I had also
checked the printer setup from within the Quicken program and set the HP
as the default printer, there was still another option within Quicken
where I had to do the same thing before it stopped using the old Okidata
as the default.

So, I can only suggest for you to check and see if you might have a
similar situation.  It was a silly thing, but it was 2 a.m. and I'm no
computer expert.

Good luck,  Sophie