Ask Felgall

I needed to reinstall one of my printers a few days ago. The reason I needed to do this was that I wanted to shift the printer from being connected to a specific computer to using a print server to connect it directly to the network. This would allow the printer to be available to print to from any of the computers without requiring a specific computer to be turned on in order to access it.

The actual install of the print server onto the network and enabling each of the computers to see the printer again after the move went through without any problem. Where the problem came was when actually trying to print to the printer from certain programs. For some stupid reason the printer insisted in installing itself with a configuration to use some obscure paper size that the printer itself doesn’t even have a paper tray for instead f configuring itself to work with the standard paper size that it does support. Every attempt to print to selected programs would just hang the printer since it knoew that it couldn’t print to that size.

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