Okay, I have two printers, a HP Deskjet 890C and an Epson. I recently switched over to XP and with a few adjustments all has gone pretty well.

My problem comes when I go to print a .PDF file. Now it doesn’t happen every time, but it’s pretty often that the printer will print a page or two and then just start pulling all the paper through piece by piece and printing nothing or just a character or two until I turn it off. Has anyone else experienced this? I usually just cancel the print job, turn off the HP and print the file from the Epson. I was just curious why the PDF file tends to corrupt the HP. Any ideas?

That's wierd! Do you have an XP driver? I wouldn't be able to help you even if you did, but maybe someone else can.

Ed

hmmm...that's a tough one. Might be a problem with how the HP driver is interpreting certain Postscript within the PDF? Only advie I can give is like Ed...check to make sure you have the latest XP driver. (I sound like bad tech support! :) )

If it only happens with PDF files that sure sounds like a post script driver issue. You definitely need post script drivers for PDF on hp printers. You should be able to get one on their website.

Or it could be something as simple as page width. I used to get that blank page thing on occasion with my Epson when i tried to print a page from a website. If your occasional printed characters are on the left edge of the paper that would be a clue.
:wavey:

It's odd. I can print a file fine one time and perhaps the next time the printer might go wacky or perhaps it will print two pages fine and then decide to go wacky. I do have the most current XP drivers so that's not it. I did send an email to HP to see if they had any ideas too. Hmmmm.

THANKS for the help.

-T