Netscape printing problems

Judith Murray Griffiths jgriffit at frontier.net
Tue Aug 12 12:13:19 EDT 1997


Jennifer,

Just the other day I repeatedly got the message "Document Contains No
Data." What I was doing wrong was trying to print before the Web page had
completely loaded.  When I waited, it printed fine.



At 08:26 AM 8/12/97 -0700, jbauman at nslsilus.ORG wrote:
>We have problems with Netscape 3.0 on both Win 95 and Win 3.1 printing
>to 
>non-networked DeskJet 600 printers.
>
>Problem #1: "Document Contains No Data" or "No pages to print".  This 
>problem was addressed by Web4Lib back in March.  These pages are 
>generally cgi generated pages.  It is possible to save these pages as 
>HTML files, open them, and then print.  Has anyone come up with another 
>solution?  Is it just a problem with the DeskJets or are those of you 
>with other printers having the same problem?  A good test site for this 
>is the Social Security Death Index 
>http://www.ancestry.com/ssdi/advanced.htm
>
>Problem #2:  Some pages, and I haven't been able to determine a common 
>thread, will not print on the DeskJet 600 series printers. A message 
>appears about a printer driver problem or a GPF that points to the 
>printer.  The page will print fine on a Panasonic KX-P3124 dot matrix 
>printer. I believe we do have the most recent printer drivers available.
>
>Any suggestions?  Thanks in advance for your help.
>
>****************************************
>Jennifer Baumann
>Reference/Electronic Resources Librarian
>Highland Park Public Library
>494 Laurel Ave.
>Highland Park, IL  60035 
>PH (847) 432-0216
>FX (847) 432-9139                  
>jbauman at nslsilus.org
>

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Judith Murrray Griffiths
Southwest Regional Library System
Durango, CO 
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