Re: [WinMac] Print spooling & SP5 error with Regsvr32.exe

Bruce Johnson(johnson[at]Pharmacy.Arizona.EDU)
Fri, 10 Sep 1999 09:20:52 -0500

Michael Eilon wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> Not sure if my previous email made it to the list, so I'm sending it again
> (below). Apologies if you've already read this.
>
> I've got a couple of esoteric problems with NT, which I hope someone will
> be able to help me with:
>
> 1) We have a WinNT server (SP5) acting as a spool for our Apple
> LaserWriters. All the Win95 PCs spool through the server, and everything's
> fine, except for one particular PC which can't print to one particular
> LaserWriter... it can print to all the others, but if we try printing to
> that particular one, we get the error "The Access code is invalid".

Never seen that one.

Truth be told, though, after much futzing with PC's and printers trying to
track down weird errors; I've often found it's easiest, and more effective, in
the long run, to delete all the printers from a Win95 PC and reinstall them.

Another suggestion. If you're using the Win95 drivers, definitely dump all the
postscript printers from them and reinstall them using Adobe's postscript
driver (I think it's up to V4). That one's MUCH more reliable than the
standard Windows one.

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