Printer problems

[BC]

I have a laptop pc that will not let a hp340 printer be installed correctly. Every time I
go to print it says that the print driver is not insalled correctly.
Now I have unistalled the printer.
And reinstalled it.
And got the latest driver and installed it.
I have even gone so far as to look in the registry and try and find all the hp type programs/drivers that I could find delete them and reinstall the pinter.
Is there something that I missed before I try and re-install windows?
I have win95a And before I go and do all this reinstalling I will go look for updates for it. Is there one in particular I should get?
Thanks,
BC

[Decklord]

Did you reboot your system after deleting all of your components?

[BC]

yes even a cold boot.

[fishboy]

Just a suggestion. Fiddle around with the printer types such as EPP, PPP, etc. Also check to make sure lpt port is enabled in windows control panel as well as bios.

[Jin Vitas]

check in your bios.. for parallel port settings so you can change it to bi-directional

[BC]

ok I will try. Thought of that but I had plugged in another printer and it worked fine. Just now realized that it is a uni- printer.

[BC]

nope no change. I am now getting a different error after it says that there is a driver error. Spool32 caused a gpf in fx-comm.drv.
you know what fx-comm.drv is? is it a driver for an epson fx-80+ by chance?

[philipg]

Sounds good you got windows to see it. Now you may have to do a re-install to make windows set-up the buffer tables for the spooler correctly.

[BC]

I have changed it back to ecp printer port should I keep it at bi-?

[BC]

Reinstall win or the printer? I have reinstalled the printer. /to no avail

[philipg]

ECP is not the bi-directional setting you want change it to EPP.

[BC]

just have the two settings.
I have had it working on this computer before.

[Jin Vitas]

It should be bi-directional and as for fx-comm.drv try just renaming that file.. then do a print..