Subscribe Feed (RSS)Laserjet 2600N – Jobs Stick in SBS2008 Print Queue
December 23rd, 2008 by Paul Sterley | Filed under Not in the Windows Box, Windows Server, Workstation OS.I just spent some time wrestling with an HP Color Laserjet 2600N printer on SBS2008.
The workstation was XP Pro SP2 x32.
The driver was for Vista x64, downloaded from HP (closest I could get).
The symptom: The driver loaded fine on the server and workstation. Server could print OK. When workstation printed, the job would stick in the queue and not go to the printer, and could not be deleted except by stopping the spooler and deleting the files from the spooler folder. When I restarted the print spooler service without deleting the files, the job would then go to the printer.
The solution: Disable bi-directional support in the printer driver on the server.
Tags: Laserjet 2600N, Print Spooler, SBS 2008
Beautiful! Fixed it for me. This was driving an exhausted person (me) crazy at the end of a long migration! Well done.
Thanks for this fix, this problem was pissing me off for days! Well done.
Excellent it works for me as well
Top tip many thanks.
Another thing that helps is to select WinPrint (instead of ZIMFPrint) in the print processor section in the Advanced tab of the print properties. (Well it worked for me)