Your questions make me realize how little I know about what I am doing.
At this moment, my printer is turned off. The status of the printer shows
"Ready" on my desktop PC, but it shows as "Offline" on my laptop. When I
look at the properties and ports of the printer on the different PCs, this
is what it shows:
Desktop: Port name: BRN_03A00F, Description: Standard TCP/IP Port, Printer:
Brother HL-2070N series
Laptop: Port name: 192.168.1.196_1, Description: Standard TCP/IP Port,
Printer: Brother HL-2070N
Since I set both of these printers by using the Start/Printer/"Add a
printer"/Add a Network printer process, I don't understand why they set up
differently.
Another curiosity (although not pertinent to my problem) is why the Printer
Properties windows are different on the two PCs. On the desktop, the windows
is wide and has all of the tabs on one line; the laptop has a small window
and the tabs are layered. Both systems are Windows Home Premium, Service
Pack 1 with all of the updates applied.
Even though I started programming computers in 1959, it is amazing how much
I still don't know :-(
Thanks for your thoughts.
Tom
"Alan Morris [MSFT]" <> wrote in message
news:...
>I will assume the queue is sending the data to the printer using Standard
>TCP/IP port.
>
> Is the port configured for an IP address or a Hostname? Is SNMP enabled
> on the port? Are the other machines that work printing over Standard
> TCP/IP Port and are the configurations the same as the port that is not
> working.
>
> --
> Alan Morris
> Windows Printing Team
> Search the Microsoft Knowledge Base here:
> http://support.microsoft.com/search/?adv=1
>
> This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no
> rights.
>
> "Tom from WI" <> wrote in message
> news:...
>> The printer is an HL-2070N B&W laser printer. The printer is usually
>> turned off, however when I turn it on, it becomes a "Ready" printer on
>> the other PCs but remains "Offline" for the laptop. When I turn the
>> printer on and then print something to the printer it goes in the queue
>> but does not print. If I leave the printer on and then restart my laptop,
>> the queue gets printed after my laptop finisihes its startup. For some
>> reason, when the printer is off at startup of my laptop, the laptop
>> doesn't get the message when I turn the printer on after the laptop has
>> started. This is the only PC of the three that works this way. The other
>> two notice when the printer is turned on and put it in Ready state.
>> Tom
>>
>> "Chuck" <> wrote in message
>> news:...
>>>I don't know what the model of the Brother printer is.
>>> Saying that--
>>> My experience was that sometimes Brother printers (mainly multifunction)
>>> can have driver install problems that chase back to the registry
>>> entries.
>>> Brother may have a "cleanup" utility on their web site that removes
>>> applicable registry entries, so that a Brother may install properly.
>>> It may also be that you need to do the install as administrator, or with
>>> administrator privilege.
>>>
>>> "Tom from WI" <> wrote in message
>>> news:...
>>>>I am running Vista Home Premium on my laptop. I have a Brother wifi
>>>>printer (although it connects to the router with a wire). I have 2
>>>>desktops and my laptop that use the printer. The two desktops use the
>>>>printer without a problem. My laptop only works during the period after
>>>>I add the network printer. When I reboot, it will seem to print to the
>>>>printer but it just gets stored in the printer queue and won't print it.
>>>>Telling the print queue to try again doesn't do anything. If I delete
>>>>the printer from my laptop and add it again as a new printer, it works
>>>>great until the next reboot. I have no other printers in my printer
>>>>list, only the Brother. None of the desktops (one Vista Home Premium,
>>>>one XP) have this problem. Any suggestions?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for your help.
>>>> Tom
>>>
>>>
>>
>
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