HP problems with Postershop 4.5

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I just upgraded from Postershop 4.0 to 4.5 and now have the following problem:

Each time when I try to print to a HP Designjet 2500 CP I get the following error:

"An error occured while initializing printer communication port for job "printfile.onx" "

I have a Encad ProE also connected to the same port (I use a switchbox) and this works fine. When I used Postershop 4.0 I never had a problem printing to both the HP and Encad printers. I use the following system : Compaq proffesional workstation 6000, PII 266 Mhz, 128 Mb RAM, Windows NT 4.0 with servicepack 5.

Thanks, richard

-- Anonymous, November 03, 1999

Answers

I forgot to mention that I hooked up the printers to the parallel port (LPT1).

-- Anonymous, November 03, 1999

j'ai eu le mjme problhme mais avec une HP 2000 sur LPT1 et une ENCAD 500 sur IP. Virifiez dans POSTERSHOP>Tools>SetupPrinter si vous jtes bien paramitri et si les deux imprimantes ne seraient pas diclaries par erreur de la mjme fagon. Philippe CRESSO

-- Anonymous, January 26, 2000

Did you change HP2500 in "Device"-menue?...(in german it4s Gerdteeinstellung) from Postscript -> HPGL2 to drive HP with an external RIP? You have to do so!

-- Anonymous, March 06, 2000

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