Simple printing setup. 3 machines, 2 printers. One prints invoices, other prints misc documents.
We use $300-400 range dell laser printers. Usually they work great. 3 times now, we have replaced the printers with the same and different models. Often going to the next model up or newer.
For no noticeable reason, A printer will start acting up. Test pages and documents output gibberish. Sometimes hundreds of pages that don't stop until we power cycle. Regardless of the spooler queue.
Reinstalling printer and drivers do not help. Due to wiring constraints, the printers are each attached via USB and shared over the network.
Any ideas?
Please change the printer driver you are using. Those issue is because the language the driver use is not recognized by the printer.
Its like using a postscript driver for a printer that does not support postscript.
If all drivers does not work try with a basic hp laserjet 4 driver, even if its a dell, as the basic pcl language was born on that model. If that model does not work too it then can be the formatter board, this is the hardware that receive and translate the printout in the printer.