[aclug-L] Re: Sales and lack of stock and non-rain check! Was:Re: Re: If you had a Win98se Question what forum/blog would you go to?

[ironrose <ironrose@xxxxxxx>]

Well said and because the win98se resources are down to 65%, the OS is 
out of memory while trying to print out a graphic intensive project.  
Some graphics programs create HUGE files.  So is the problem with with 
printer or the graphics program or win98se?  It is hard to say without a 
clean load of win98se, installing the multi-function printer drivers and 
the graphics program.

Jeff Vian wrote:

>On Mon, 2006-01-02 at 01:15 -0800, DAVID CARMICHAEL wrote:
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>>System has 512mb [the motherboards max] installed.
>>When trying to print the system resources say 65%
>>
>>As I changed the printer settings to print directly to
>>the printer and not to use the spooler _AND_ to not
>>start printing till the full job had been spooled...
>>the printer stopped printing at the same points in the
>>print job??
>>
>>    
>>
>
>You are printing directly and not spooling?  That is often a problem
>because the data transmission stops when the printer memory gets full
>and there is nothing to  restart it.
>
>  
>
>>I have sent as many as ten single page jobs and all
>>ten printed with out any trouble...
>>
>>But the printer will not print even one two page job
>>with out locking up!
>>
>>I am starting to think that there is something wrong
>>with the design of the printer... 
>>
>>But if that was so I am sure that I would be reading
>>all sorts of 'bad posting' in the printer forums.. as
>>OfficeMax [and Staples] has had this printer on sale
>>for the past three months and my wife was told she was
>>the first person to exchange the printer to the 'North
>>Rock' OfficeMax, and I talked to the manager at the
>>'East Kellogg' OfficeMax and he claims to not had a
>>single one of the Brother printers returned, yet he
>>claims to of had a number of "HP's & Lexmark's" return
>>as non-working....
>>
>>On another topic... sales and lack of stock and
>>non-rain check!
>>Newspaper did not get delivered to my house till 11am
>>Sunday am.. Wife saw the "$199.00" CompUSA system. We
>>check both the phone stock and online stock status and
>>the item is listed as in stock.. so just to make sure
>>before we drove I called the store directly and was
>>told that the store was not connected to the stocking
>>system and they only had five of the systems which
>>were sold out when the store opened at 9am... But
>>called back and spoke to a different clerk a few hours
>>later and was told "...the manager would only allow us
>>to sell five on sale but have 15 in stock...which is
>>why the stock status is stating the item is in
>>stock..." While the addvert says "Limited to stock on
>>hand" is this leagl?? 
>>
>>--David
>>
>>
>>
>>--- ironrose <ironrose@xxxxxxx> wrote:
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>>>How much ram is on this computer and what is the
>>>percentage of resources 
>>>are free?  ~Anne
>>>
>>>DAVID CARMICHAEL wrote:
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>>>>Done
>>>>[X] "... Cleanup the temp directory (manually
>>>>        
>>>>
>>>delete
>>>      
>>>
>>>>all *.tmp files)..."
>>>>
>>>>[X] "...and run defrag again in safe mode..."
>>>>
>>>>[X] "...Have you tried using the parallel port
>>>>instead?..." 
>>>>    [Not an option USB only printer]   
>>>>
>>>>[?] "...Sounds like the print buffer is too full or
>>>>win98se is unable to handle the very large size of
>>>>        
>>>>
>>>the
>>>      
>>>
>>>>print spool files that the brother printer is
>>>>producing..." 
>>>>    [Any way to adjust this in Win98se through a
>>>>patch/hack? Send the spool to another drive?] 
>>>>
>>>>[!] "...Have you considered upgrading to win2k?..."
>>>>        
>>>>
>>>>    [Do not want to purchase new "OS" yet. And the
>>>>XP-Home-"UPGRADE" co$t$ would rather spend toward
>>>>        
>>>>
>>>new
>>>      
>>>
>>>>system in the next two months] 
>>>>
>>>>[! The PCI->USB2.0 card can be used in other
>>>>        
>>>>
>>>systems
>>>      
>>>
>>>>in the house so it was not a total waste of $15 to
>>>>        
>>>>
>>>try
>>>      
>>>
>>>>it out.]
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>--- ironrose <ironrose@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> 
>>>>
>>>>        
>>>>
>>>>>Sounds like the print buffer is too full or
>>>>>          
>>>>>
>>>win98se
>>>      
>>>
>>>>>is unable to handle 
>>>>>the very large size of the print spool files that
>>>>>the brother printer is 
>>>>>producing.  Cleanup the temp directory (manually
>>>>>delete all *.tmp files) 
>>>>>and run defrag again in safe mode.  Have you tried
>>>>>using the parallel 
>>>>>port instead?  Win98se doesn't handle usb well at
>>>>>all and the usb is 
>>>>>choking on the amount of data it is being fed. 
>>>>>Win2k handles usb much 
>>>>>better and is much more stable than win98se.  Have
>>>>>you considered 
>>>>>upgrading to win2k?  ~Anne
>>>>>
>>>>>DAVID CARMICHAEL wrote:
>>>>>
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