USB Printer problems..

[lindberg]

Recently I bought a Brother HL1250 Laser printer with a USB interface. Now I have a problem setting it up properly. At first when I install the USB driver it work fine, but after a reboot the problem starts. When I try to print the spool program performs an illegal operation and the printer wakes up but won't print. I reboot and when windows starts it tells me that I have one job in queue, I press OK to print and the printer prints the document! After that printing is normal, I can print whenever I want to.
If I don't have a printer job in queue the spool program will crash when I try to print and after a reboot it is the same thing with the queue, accept and print...

It seems like it is the only way to get the printer to print is to have a job in queue when windows starts and pause the job. This way I can also print normally.

Anybody have any experience with this kind of a problem and knows the answer? Feel free to help me out here, thanx

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[VIKINGMAN]

Hi Lindberg.

Try to see in that "Illigal operation" message, which file causes the error. It'll say something like: "File xxx.xxx caused an error in mudule so-and-so..."I bet you, that it's an driver confict error.

Also, are you running the newest driver, or the one that came with the printer?

Cheers!

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[lindberg]

Yep, I use the latest drivers.
And it is the BRUSB file that crashes, and I get the nice debug quota... This is the driver for the USB interface for the printer but as far as I know Win ME does not have an own USB printer driver since it actually asked for a driver
Win ME usually just installs its own drivers without giving the user a chance to select the manufacturers more proper driver.