Hello,

I apologise for writing in this General forum, but I have no idea where else to put a thread.

A week ago I bought a new printer, a HP DeskJet 5150. Well there is a problem with it, and I doubt that the guys from the store could help me, even though it has an one year warranty. The problem is that every time I print a page, a single page or a few pages, after printing them it continues printing pages with weird things, like colored lines with ticks on the left of every one of them. It's good that it has a 'stop' button to cancel the printing. The pages printed after my printed pages look like some test pages. I am using it with WinXP Pro SP1, I haven't tried yet to run it under Linux, but I will as soon as I solve this problem. In WinXP the printer icon which appears on the taskbar when I print, when I open the it and there is a list of what is being printed, for example a single page, it is written there pages 1/1 , 64/125kb (there are not the values every time I print, but almost every time the first value is less than the second like these), so when my page has been printed it continues and it is written 'pages 1/4' now! It's very strange! I only printed a single sheet and now it's written there are 3 more! This happens every time I print! I'm not so well finnancially to spend money for ink cartidges often right now! Can anyone help?

I had good results with my HP deskjet printer under slackware and apsfilter. Since you run slackware, I suggest you try the printer regardless of how it is doing under windows. If you get a similar problem, just go back to the store and exchange the printer. If not, the problem's with your windows printer driver.. in which case I'd say good luck convincing windows that it doesn't have the "best" driver installed already.

Yeah it's a good idea, I'll run it under slackware. However I managed to fix the problem. The problem was with the drivers. I changed the settings and it is fine now I think.. I made it send the pages directly to the printer without spooling every single page before printing. Thanks for the suggestion