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HP 7140xi multi-function printer woes and fix
Authored by: magir on May 17, '04 01:01:38PM

I also had quite a few problems with my HP Officejet G85 which is connected thru a JetDirect printserver.

Both under OS9 and OSX one hint quite often resolved any issues: HP uses a background application to communicate with the Printer - it is called HP Communications.app. As it is a background application it can only be quitted using the Activity Monitor or the Terminal. To resolve an issue, quit it and restart it - that helps! Besides that if you want to print using GIMPPrint you have to quit HP Communications to free up the communication channel to the printer. I usually leave the application quitted and only temporaily start it for scanning.



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HP 7140xi multi-function printer woes and fix
Authored by: schuehlieh on May 17, '04 03:21:09PM

dear magir
I am dealing with a different aio-problem, and I have to kill the hpcommunications-app sometimes in the activity monitor the way you wrote above . after shutting down my powerbook, the app restarts itself, and I haven't found a "starting object" until now, neither am I able to restart the app directly after having quitted. Could you please tell me, how you restart it manually?
sorry for my bad english.
thank you for your answer
julie



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HP 7140xi multi-function printer woes and fix
Authored by: magir on May 19, '04 08:11:19AM
It took me quite some time to find where HP Communication is autostarted :-). Problem is - I don't remember anymore. Luckily I've written everything down on my webpage.

Simply search for the file loginwindow.plist which contains a list of applications to autostart and remove the approriate entry.

Luckily I found your comment here - I guess a reminder email when comments are added would be a great feature for this forum...

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thank you!
Authored by: schuehlieh on May 19, '04 01:22:19PM

wow- I thank you very much! I'll try this tonite!
and your suggestion of a reminder email really would be a great new feature for this great site!



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