Re: Label printing problems after upgrade from Win2k to XP

[Gene Kenney <gkenney at bethel dot edu>]

John,

Did you re-install the local printer under Windows XP?

Gene

> Greetings all,
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> Before I opened a call with the Help Desk, I thought I'd poll the
> collective wisdom of this group to see if anyone had any suggestions on
> how to fix this.
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> We recently upgraded a workstation from Win2k to Win XP Pro (no SP2, but
> probably SP1).  Attached to the computer via a parallel port (LPT 1) is
> one of our handy dandy Okidata ML320 Turbos, which we use for label
> printing.  After the upgrade, any attempt to print to the label printer
> in Millennium results in output to the networked printer.  All of the
> settings in Millennium appear to be correct for the "Label printer"
> option (including, most importantly, the selection of the label printer
> as the output device instead of the networked printer, also available
> and established as the "Standard Printer" in Millennium).
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> The computer will print to the label printer from all other programs
> I've tried (test page, Word, Excel, etc.), causing me to rule out the
> computer and list Millennium as the sole culprit here.  Trying radical
> things like changing the parallel port assignment in Win from LPT1 to
> LPT2 also had no bearing on the condition.  Even removing the networked
> printer as a printing option altogether (by removing it from the list of
> printers in Windows, then restarting the computer and Millennium to
> ensure it wouldn't "see" it) STILL resulted in output to the networked
> printer which, technically, was no longer there.
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> Drivers have been updated (we had the most recent Okidata version before
> the upgrade), various printers have been uninstalled and reinstalled,
> etc., all to no avail.  We do have a workstation that does print to its
> attached label printer under XP.  The settings between these two
> machines are in every visible way identical, causing me further
> confusion in identifying the possible cause.
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> Does anyone have any ideas (even simple ones) that I may have
> overlooked?
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>
> John
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Gene Kenney
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Bethel University & Seminaries
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