> After trying to print an email which I received from > somebody who is using Windows XP my printer does not print > normal any more. > The email seemed to have some (hidden) ascii characters > after I cleaned the email. On the screen it read as a normal > text file, printing brought only problems. > Dos printing commands of programs, copy to prn etc. al give > the same result with files from which I know that they > always gave a normal print output.
Try printing an HP test document but holding down one of the printer buttons. If that does not work, use the HP software to try to clean the ink jet nozzles, or buy a new ink cartridge. You can examine mail for hidden characters with any freeware hex editor. With some frequency, a ^-Z (control-Z) or EOF (end-of-file) characters early in a text file will make a printer quit, but will not show up on the screen of an ordinary text viewer or editor. You can clean a text file of non-txt characters with the freeware program, rt: ReadText v1.01! Program written and Copyright by Runar Skaret. This Program is Freeware. Look it up. Use it at your own risk. No modifications are allowed. Latest version is found at http://home.sol.no/~rskaret This program will strip binary coding from binary files such as EXE, COM, DLL - files. The resulting file will contain just the readable part of the binary file. Nice when searching big binary files for hidden information. To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies. More info can be found at; http://www.softcon.com/archives/SURVPC.html
