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We have an HP5550 DN networked printer using Windows Vista systems to print, and for some reason (seems to be exclusively with large documents) the printer will decide to spit out a few hundred pages, about half of which are blank, and the other half contain a single line of random higher ASCII/wingdings looking characters, and then the rest of the page is blank.
The documents we are printing are basically just PowerPoint/Word docs printed from Office 2003/2007/2010.
Despite months of playing with it and having a number of network admins poking at it, no one can seem to figure out what the issue is...
What would cause something like this? I read once that the printer just needs more RAM, but I can't seem to find any justification for this claim.
If you tried to print a non-text document as a text document. Printing a 300kb exe would get you up to 300,000 random characters coming out of a printer. I don't think its that though, as you have blank pages. – soandos – 2011-08-22T19:15:11.557
I have seen something like this before and it turned out to be a driver issue - have you tried updating the drivers? or if you have recently done that, try rolling it back. – MaQleod – 2011-08-22T19:57:40.753