Re: BJ200 prints garbage even at DOS but will self test

Fenrir Enterprises wrote:

Paul Furman <paul-@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

A friend has an 'antique' Canon BJ200 which prints only a few garbage characters, then asks for more paper even at a DOS command line or test page from properties but it will print in a self test (powering on with the button held down) it prints some two page letter from 1982 <grin> which must be loaded in the firmware.

So it's a problem even at the DOS level. We uninstalled & redid the default driver listed in win 2000.

Any ideas?

I know it's an ancient b&w cheap printer but it has worked just fine for about a decade <grin>. It's on lpt1.

I know my BJC-4300 would do this if it was turned on during the
computer start-up. The easiest solution was simply to make sure the
printer was turned off before turning the computer on.

Also, if it has a program that auto-extracts the drivers and then
launches an installation routine, try to find that directory and copy
it/write protect it, don't do the installation routine, and then use
the Add/Remove Hardware wizard (install manually, browse to the INF
file, etc), to install the printer. This worked better with less
hardware conflicts for my old BJC-4300 (and also for my Ensoniq
AudioPCI card).

We rebooted the computer & printer a few times different ways. Maybe download a new driver & manually install, it might have got corrupted or something.
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