I have an application that prints to a share on my windows 2000 server.
The application simply points to \\servername\printersharen
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The printer is an OTC 850XL Line printer (large dot matrix)
The print jobs that are being sent to the printer are usually very long reports that take a long time to print.
Here is the issue. Every time I happen to connect to the windows 2000 server that is hosting the printer share, there usually is an error that goes away on its own.
Title: Printers Folder
Red X: There was an error found when printing the document "\RMS\Spool\ZSPL2465" to IP_192.168.10.165. Do you want to retry or cancel the job.
The end users report no problems but these constant popups get in the way when I'm trying to administer that particular server.
I have turned off all notifications possible in the printers folder.
This happens with other line printers with different drivers.
I have contacted the software product vendor and of course, they point to Microsoft.
One thing that I do notice is that it never completely spools up on the print server until the print job is finished. For example, right now there is a print job that is erroring out that is 447KB/801KB. Maybe that is a clue.
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