Print Manager Displays Error Status with HP LaserJet 4+ (125382)



The information in this article applies to:

  • Microsoft Windows for Workgroups 3.1
  • Microsoft Windows for Workgroups 3.11

This article was previously published under Q125382

SYMPTOMS

When you print over a Windows for Workgroups (WFW) peer-to-peer network to a computer acting as a print server, only the first page of the spooled print job is printed successfully. Print Manager displays an error status after the first page, and all the remaining pages are stalled. Immediately after the Print Manager error, the mouse pointer flickers erratically.

There is no problem printing from the computer acting as the print server.

CAUSE

When you install the Hewlett-Packard (HP) LaserJet 4 Plus printer driver version 31.v1.50 by running the HP-supplied installation program (HSETUP.EXE), the following files are replaced, edited, or added:

  • In the Windows directory:

    AUDIT.LOG
    CONTROL.INI
    DINSTALL.EXE
    DINSTALL.ICO
    DINSTALL.INF
    DINSTALL.RC
    DOSAPP.INI
    HP4PLUS.HLP
    HPLASERJ.GRP
    HPLJPS.INI
    HPPDF4PL.DLL
    HPSW.EXE
    MSACM.INI
    NDISLOG.TXT
    PRINTMAN.EXE
    PRINTMAN.HLP
    PROGMAN.INI
    WIN.INI

  • In the Windows\SYSTEM subdirectory:

    COMMCTRL.DLL
    FINSTALL.DLL
    FINSTALL.HLP
    HPLJ4QP.DLL
    HPLJCOMM.DLL
    HPLJVPD.386
    HPPCL5E.DRV
    HPPCL5E.HLP
    HPPCL5E0.HLP
    HPPCL5E1.DLL
    HPPCL5E2.DLL
    HPPCL5E3.DLL
    HPPCL5E4.DLL
    HPPJLMON.DLL
    PADDPAP.WAV
    PCOMMERR.WAV
    PCOVER.WAV
    PERROR.WAV
    PFEED.WAV
    PJAM.WAV
    READMEHP.WRI
    SPEAKER.DRV
    THREED.VBX

RESOLUTION

Workaround 1

Install the HP LaserJet III printer driver on all the computers that exhibit this behavior and set the HP LaserJet III printer as the default printer.

Workaround 2

  1. Expand the following files from your original Windows for Workgroups disks to the Windows directory:

    PRINTMAN.EXE
    PRINTMAN.HLP

  2. Expand the following file from your original Windows for Workgroups disks to the Windows\SYSTEM subdirectory:

    COMMCTRL.DLL

    The Windows for Workgroups 3.11 COMMCTRL.DLL and PRINTMAN.EXE file sizes and dates are listed in the following table:
          Filename       Size     Date      3.5"     5.25"
          -------------------------------------------------
          COMMCTRL.DLL   48,112   11/1/93   Disk 2   Disk 2
          PRINTMAN.EXE   71,824   11/1/93   Disk 3   Disk 5
    						
  3. Remove the following entry from the LOAD= line of the WIN.INI file:

    HPSW.EXE

  4. Remove the following section and any entries in it from the WIN.INI file:

    [HPQSPOOLER]

MORE INFORMATION

The HP installation program replaces the PRINTMAN.EXE and COMMCTRL.DLL files. The COMMCTRL.DLL file contains internal custom control user interface functions, and is used by File Manager.

Modification Type:MajorLast Reviewed:10/14/2003
Keywords:KB125382