Well i work in a school with around 30 printers easily.

most of the scripts for these printers work ok.
there seems to be a problem though when people in the D&T department want to print to the printer that is right by the machines.

this printer was installed before i started here and they have constant trouble with it apprently only one computer can successfully print to that printer i'm guessing that was the computer that was used for the installation of the printer and maybey where the print script was imaged from and put onto all of the other computers in the department from the ict managers office.

i pose this question.

pretty much everyone can pickup the printer ( not phisically ...)
on the network so it can't be installed incorrectly but when a document is printed anywhere else besides the closest computer to the printer it spools as usual then the printing process stops no error message no crash nothing it's staus dissapears and the page count sets to N/A.

i would appreciate some help my manager is off with dental problems and i'm a one man show thanks luke.

The printer model i do belive is a hp3500 ( the bulky ones )

OS: XP SP2

The Computers Are Joined To The Schools LAN
The Server OS Is WSE 2002 I Belive.

and sorry i forgot to mention this before my manager mentioned he had problems like this before he thought it was the scripts/group policy.

but luckily for him the problem fixed itself.

and another quck note JD2066 for LAN security ( due to us being a school ) we run ranger maybey that has some issues too.

thanks

sorry about the OS.

no computers are connected via usb all of there are LAN connected.

yes only one can print via the network connection.

and yes no others can strangley i hope that changes things for you.

sorry that i'm unclear i'm still doing my apprentiship.

it's connected via ethernet to a switch which in turn sends the data to the main server room.

Yep It's all correct.
the driver recognises what printer it is and the port has the correct data showing.

it's becoming a mystery this someone get scooby doo

^_^

not to worry guys i've managed seems that the printer was getting confused with the computer names apprenlty there were other departments with similar names and the printer was printing from those computers not the desired ones.

print script was at fault it was edited and now everything works fine.

no more hassle with this..... i hope ¬_¬