Printing nightmare

[Kenneth Brody]

Harwyn Berens wrote:
[...Windows XP with a "Brother 1440", which I assume is actually "HL-1440"...]
> Got on the internet and went to the Brother site and downloaded a driver
> specifically addressed to my problem (as I interpreted it).  Things went ok
> for a couple of days.  I just tried to hardcopy several screens because
> I've got to change them for a user.  Things went bad quickly.  Same
> thing.  I can't open "Printers and Faxes" and I can't print
> squat.  Nothing.  If I try to go through the "Printing Problem Resolver" or
> whatever in Windows I get the message that Print spooler service isn't
> running.   Somebody help.  I don't mind reloading the drivers again but
> what's going on.
[...]

This sounds a lot like a Windows and/or driver issue, and not a filePro
issue.  If Windows can't even open "printers and faxes", and Windows says
that the print spooler isn't running, this is something not under the
control of filePro.  filePro (especially the 4.5 DOS version) doesn't do
anything to the Windows spooler.  (The Windows version of filePro can
be told to use the spooler to send the output, but it still doesn't do
anything _to_ the spooler beyond sending it a print job.)

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