I have a HP P1005 laser printer connected to my RND4000. It works well for a few days then it wont print. it shows as running fine in all areas just wont print.
That model is a "host based" printer and they do not play well with the print server in the ReadyNAS units. Most of HP's printers are PCL (Printer Control Language) printers starting with the original Laserjet in the early 1980's. They do have a line of inexpensive printers in the 1000 number range that are host based, meaning the image is created by the computer and sent to the printer as opposed to the PCL printers in which the raw data is sent to the printer and the image is created by the CPU in the actual printer.
What operating system are you operating on your PC's and how many PC's are printing to the printer?
Are you running the driver that was on the CD or the latest from the HP website.
Does the printer act the same regardless of which PC is generating the print job?
I noted in research, that this particular printer was not highly rated and a similar problem was quoted in user reviews. No mention of whether they were using a print server or a direct connection to a PC.
What do you have to do to get the printer to work?
I have got the latest drivers available and it does the same thing on all computers. As for getting it working, I have to reinstall on all computers to get it working through the NAS again. I can plug it into one of my desktops and share and all is well never had any problems that way it just dosent seem to like going through the nas. oh and rebooting the Nas dosent work.
