>>Stopped using HP along time ago, mainly because of their poor drivers.
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>I have an HP 550C inkjet printer which has produced excellent output for some years now. Unfortunately if I print more than half-a-dozen pages in a row, it starts coughing out pages which are mostly blank with a line of gobble-de-gook at the top of each.
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>Is this what you mean by "poor drivers"?
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>I recently downloaded and installed a new 550C driver from their web site hoping it would cure the problem but it didn't.
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>Peter Robinson
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>P.S.
> And I'm using an HP computer too! :-(

No, that sounds like you've got a bad (or incorrect) cable connecting the printer to your computer. The printer is trying to tell the computer to stop sending data, and the computer ignores it! It also could be a bad printer port, but I think the cable is more likely the culprit.

By "bad driver", I mean that a lot of the HP drivers diddle the Floating Point processor state and don't return it to what it was before they started to mess with it. This causes all sorts of grief, especially with FoxPro! Service pack 3 for Visual Studio 6 (VFP6) is supposed to get around this, but I don't use HP anymore, so I couldn't say if it does or it doesn't. Anyways, HP drivers have ALWAYS been a thorn in my side, be it printer, plotter, whatever. They just rot IMNSHO.