Digital BW, The Print

Monday, October 13, 2003, 7:19:45 AM, you wrote:

AHcn> Richard,

AHcn> Sorry to hear you're having problems with the IP demo. I
AHcn> installed the demo under WinXP without reading anything and
AHcn> everything worked fine from the get go...I know this doesn't
AHcn> help, but there must be something really simple causing your
AHcn> situation. I know...it's ALWAYS something simple, you just have
AHcn> to find it!

AHcn> Anyway, FWIW, I get the same "machine ID" error in the
AHcn> message area of spool_face; and, I spent nearly the whole
AHcn> weekend printing and playing around with IP. I think, maybe,
AHcn> this error has something to do with the fact that a dongle is
AHcn> not present. Of course, this may be totally off base, but I
AHcn> don't have any problem printing.

AHcn> Good luck,
AHcn> Alan Huntley

Alan,

Thanks for the reply. I too think it must be something simple. I
suspect it's my "local" assignment. It defaults on installation to
LPT1, yet I use USB, so following the instructions I first tried to do
it as it tells you for Win2000 (as XP is not mentioned) and put in
USB001. This got the print job to go through the spool (at least
messages were there and the % went up to 100%, and even the green
light started blinking on my 2200 (which supposedly means a print is
on the way) but in the end nothing. I tried too, as suggested in the
manual and areas of the FAQ, to put the name of my 2200 as it already
is in the printers and faxes area of XP. But it added _ between the
words and made a new driver. So I re-named my 2200 and re-installed
with the name all one word. That's where I sit now. But now IP sends
the job to the IP spooler but it sits at 0% with an error message that
says "printer not ready (status = (0x709)". I may try to call someone
at Colorbyte and see if they want to provide tech support to someone
who really wants to buy IP but needs to see it work first.

Thanks again.

-- 
Best regards,
 Richard                            mailto:richard@...