Can not print to new C554e from Windows XP Workstations... News at 11
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Got a weird one. We just took ownership of a brand new C554e Minolta MFP and of the 15 workstations we have in our office, TWO of them will not print to the MFP/Printer from either the MS Office 2003 suite or our TOPS application. The working 13 workstations are a combination of Windows XP/SP3, One Windows Vista and 5 are running Windows 7. For the two that are not working, these are both Windows XP/SP3.
> We use Authentication for billing our clients for printing services and therefore an account code must be entered to print.
> Can not print from any of the MS Office Products ( MS Word, Excel, Outlook 2003), and our TOPS application.
> Both problem PCs error out at the point where the pop-up is displayed and is checking the settings
=> The process errors out with "It was not possible,to verify the settings. Check if the settings are correct"
> Both problem PCs can print a Test Page from the Driver/Properties which includes entering a valid account code when prompted.
> Both can print from Notepad which includes entering a valid account code when prompted.
> Both Fail when we use the 'Verify' button on the Driver's "User Authentication/Account Track" screen.
Minolta Tech Support believes that either MS Office (Which would include TOPS) or the Windows XP OS is the problem - their suggestion was to re-image the OS and/or reinstall the MS Office and TOPS.
We saw similar symptom with some of the other PC (Windows XP and Windows 7), but 'Removing/Rebooting/Reinst
I noticed that with each PC, the CD Based Minolta installation process did not work and each PC had to be manually configured, with the exception of ONE PC, which is one of the ones that is not working - I was able to install the print driver using the CD/Automated process.
What has been done:
> Removed/Rebooted/Reinstall
> Attempted installing from the original Installation CD and from downloaded driver packs.
I REALLY don't want to re-image the OS as we have some pretty old applications which will be difficult to reinstall.
Any ideas or suggestions..
Rojosho
Got a weird one. We just took ownership of a brand new C554e Minolta MFP and of the 15 workstations we have in our office, TWO of them will not print to the MFP/Printer from either the MS Office 2003 suite or our TOPS application. The working 13 workstations are a combination of Windows XP/SP3, One Windows Vista and 5 are running Windows 7. For the two that are not working, these are both Windows XP/SP3.
> We use Authentication for billing our clients for printing services and therefore an account code must be entered to print.
> Can not print from any of the MS Office Products ( MS Word, Excel, Outlook 2003), and our TOPS application.
> Both problem PCs error out at the point where the pop-up is displayed and is checking the settings
=> The process errors out with "It was not possible,to verify the settings. Check if the settings are correct"
> Both problem PCs can print a Test Page from the Driver/Properties which includes entering a valid account code when prompted.
> Both can print from Notepad which includes entering a valid account code when prompted.
> Both Fail when we use the 'Verify' button on the Driver's "User Authentication/Account Track" screen.
Minolta Tech Support believes that either MS Office (Which would include TOPS) or the Windows XP OS is the problem - their suggestion was to re-image the OS and/or reinstall the MS Office and TOPS.
We saw similar symptom with some of the other PC (Windows XP and Windows 7), but 'Removing/Rebooting/Reinst
I noticed that with each PC, the CD Based Minolta installation process did not work and each PC had to be manually configured, with the exception of ONE PC, which is one of the ones that is not working - I was able to install the print driver using the CD/Automated process.
What has been done:
> Removed/Rebooted/Reinstall
> Attempted installing from the original Installation CD and from downloaded driver packs.
I REALLY don't want to re-image the OS as we have some pretty old applications which will be difficult to reinstall.
Any ideas or suggestions..
Rojosho
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Hello Machienet,
Thank you for your reply...
Removed the driver using one of the install packages - one of the options during the install process is to remove the current driver, which i did.
> Oddly, this process resulted in the PC rebooting.
> And the Minolta printer object is now gone, so I had to use one of the other print objects.
> Remove any port that was not being used, and there was several, appx 10
> Ran CCleaner as well to clean up the registry, which is where i think the problem is.
> Rebuilt the port and installed the print driver
= Same symptom, Test Page is OK, but can not print from MS Office.
I am thinking about re-imaging this system to get to a base line on this problem.
Rojosho
Thank you for your reply...
Removed the driver using one of the install packages - one of the options during the install process is to remove the current driver, which i did.
> Oddly, this process resulted in the PC rebooting.
> And the Minolta printer object is now gone, so I had to use one of the other print objects.
> Remove any port that was not being used, and there was several, appx 10
> Ran CCleaner as well to clean up the registry, which is where i think the problem is.
> Rebuilt the port and installed the print driver
= Same symptom, Test Page is OK, but can not print from MS Office.
I am thinking about re-imaging this system to get to a base line on this problem.
Rojosho
If removing a port results in an auto-reboot then you have other issues needing to be addressed because that is not normal behavior.
If you have already uninstalled and re-installed Office Suite and still have the same issue I would agree a wipe is in order.
If you have already uninstalled and re-installed Office Suite and still have the same issue I would agree a wipe is in order.
Any update here?
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Haha, good job with that! And yes,I agree, those universal drivers are terrible in my opinion. The rebooting after manipulating the port is what three me for a loop because that is driver agnostic and its not normal behavior. Either way, you've proven your point and found a workaround so at least you've made progress.
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After removing the port, rebuild the port and install the driver manually - don't use the disk. Download the latest version of the driver you want and use that.