• Re: HP Laserjet IIP - 79-8508 SERVICE - What does it mean?

    From KP2 KP2@21:1/5 to Dave Warren on Tue May 23 18:31:27 2023
    On Sunday, November 8, 1998 at 12:00:00 AM UTC-8, Dave Warren wrote:
    On Sun, 8 Nov 1998 13:14:05 -0000, "Callum Fraser" <fra...@nationwideisp.net> wrote:
    I have a trusty (or at least it used to be) 7 year old LaserJet IIP with >2.5mb of memory. It used to be capable of just about everything but nowadays >it gives up on printing even some fairly basic grahics. It positively hates >spreadsheets with lots of gridlines.

    The display gives 21 ERROR and then 79-8508 SERVICE.

    I have tried just about everything with various printer setup options, from >conservative to aggressive, etc. The problem seems to have got progressively >worse, especially with Windows 98, it didn't seem quite so bad with 95 and >was OK most of the time with 3.1.

    Are there any drivers which can reduce this problem or is the printer >knackered?

    BTW, when I switch to Postscript with a JetPage cartridge it works much >better, but rather slowly.

    Any ideas?

    Sounds like it needs service. Best to contact the Discontinued line to find out: 1-800-999-1148 ------------------------------------------------------------- dwa...@idirect.com ICQ#: 6214593
    Fidonet: 1:3618/555
    Good information!

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