[WEB4LIB] IE 5.5 and printing problems?

[Bill Teschek]

Your problem isn't identical to mine, but the solution may be 
related. I was getting blank pages that contained only header and 
footer information. Go to the View menu, then Encoding, and see if 
the "Auto-Select" option is checked. If so, uncheck it and see if 
you problem has been solved.

Bill Teschek
Lane Memorial Library
Hampton, NH
bteschek at hampton.lib.nh.us

> Has anybody run into printing issues using IE 5.5?  I "upgraded" our
> public workstations from IE 5 to 5.5 and shortly thereafter began having
> an intermittant, but continual printing problem (networked HP printers):
> a print job would come out with one line of garbage characters on a
> blank page, and would continue printing page after page until the job
> was cancelled, or the paper ran out. The problem happened often enough
> to be a true headache for both patrons and staff, and seemed to be quite
> random as far as happening on a certain workstation, or with a certain
> web pages. I removed our security software for a day with no change.
> Finally after a couple of weeks of tinkering, I "downgraded" everything
> to IE 5, and we haven't had the problem since.
> 
> --
> Randy Souther
> Reference Technology Librarian
> Gleeson Library | Geschke Learning Resource Center
> University of San Francisco
> 
> Email:  southerr at usfca.edu
> Phone: (415) 422-5388
> 
>