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>If you have a good look in the Universal Thread, you will find that there is a >problem with most recent HP printers, especially the Series 600 injets. >Basically, the driver does not release system resources. Try this experiment - >set up the Win95/8, or Win NT resources monitor and print a few reports. the >resources drop away until there are none left. I read on the 'thread that one >user complained so much to HP that they purchased his printer back. He bought >an Epson and had no trouble.

Hi,

I was researching this problem last week as I ran into this problem with the first VFP6 app I distributed. The test user is on Win98 printing to HP 5N and the app was locking up. I tried the _fpreset() function that was pointed to in earlier threads (Thread# 161105 Message# 167435, and MS KB Q183522), and it seems to have fixed the problem. For now, I'm going to keep the 'replace the printer driver' solution as a "spare" in case the _fpreset() ultimately proves to fail. There seems to be some disagreement about whether _fpreset() is really the solution or whether is just diminishes the problem somewhat, so I'd like to test it out as much as I can while I have a few test cases to work with.


Rod Poujade
Information Systems Resources
McGill University
Montreal, QC