printer prints 1 extra unwanted page every time

Hello all -

I've got a Dell XPS600 PC and a Hewlett-Packard Laserjet 4MP printer. Yes
the printer is about 10 years older than the PC !!! (But it has worked just
fine so why get a new one?)

I only just got the XPS600 actually, and I needed to get a USB-to-parallell
adapter to get the printer to work so I got a Bandridge CPL4302 (if anyone
wants to know).

The printer works fine except for one thing - an extra page is always
printed out before the document I've asked it to print. The page has next to
nothing on it, just the letters "s1M" at the top left, like some invisible
codes that have accidentally been exposed.

Any ideas how I can get rid of this extraneous page? It wastes paper, and
the printer isn't very fast either

Thanks in advance - GG

Check using Print Preview before printing and see if that gives any clues.
The page setup should be checked for headers which may be inserted
without your knowledge. Headers can be deleted in your settings.
--
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Today is the first day of the
rest of your life.


"GGMUS1" wrote:

> Hello all -
>
> I've got a Dell XPS600 PC and a Hewlett-Packard Laserjet 4MP printer. Yes
> the printer is about 10 years older than the PC !!! (But it has worked just
> fine so why get a new one?)
>
> I only just got the XPS600 actually, and I needed to get a USB-to-parallell
> adapter to get the printer to work so I got a Bandridge CPL4302 (if anyone
> wants to know).
>
> The printer works fine except for one thing - an extra page is always
> printed out before the document I've asked it to print. The page has next to
> nothing on it, just the letters "s1M" at the top left, like some invisible
> codes that have accidentally been exposed.
>
> Any ideas how I can get rid of this extraneous page? It wastes paper, and
> the printer isn't very fast either
>
> Thanks in advance - GG

Yeah, Yeah. The printer is too old for the BIOS setting on the new computer
parallel port.

I usually change to AT or Bidirectional rather than ECP or EPP.

There was one post that fixed a similar issue just by setting the Device
Manager, Port, LPT properties to Legacy mode so you could try this first
before rebooting to get to the BIOS configuration.



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Alan Morris
Windows Printing Team
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"Byte" <Byte@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:89126461-988C-463A-955B-959F10F49DBE@microsoft.com...
> Check using Print Preview before printing and see if that gives any clues.
> The page setup should be checked for headers which may be inserted
> without your knowledge. Headers can be deleted in your settings.
> --
> XP - WNP
> Today is the first day of the
> rest of your life.
>
>
> "GGMUS1" wrote:
>
>> Hello all -
>>
>> I've got a Dell XPS600 PC and a Hewlett-Packard Laserjet 4MP printer.
>> Yes
>> the printer is about 10 years older than the PC !!! (But it has worked
>> just
>> fine so why get a new one?)
>>
>> I only just got the XPS600 actually, and I needed to get a
>> USB-to-parallell
>> adapter to get the printer to work so I got a Bandridge CPL4302 (if
>> anyone
>> wants to know).
>>
>> The printer works fine except for one thing - an extra page is always
>> printed out before the document I've asked it to print. The page has
>> next to
>> nothing on it, just the letters "s1M" at the top left, like some
>> invisible
>> codes that have accidentally been exposed.
>>
>> Any ideas how I can get rid of this extraneous page? It wastes paper,
>> and
>> the printer isn't very fast either
>>
>> Thanks in advance - GG