HP Laserjet 4000

I hope this is a good forum for my question.

I'm trying to install an HP Laserjet 4000 on a Windows network as a
network printer. The printer has a Jeet Direct card installed and the
hosts can ping and telnet into the printer. I've downloaded the
latest LJ4000 drivers in PCL 6 and HP Universal Postcript, but for
some reason I just can't communicate with the printer. As previously
mentioned I can ping the printer and telnet to it, but the standard
Windows and HP installation processes go no where with the error that
the printer could not be found. Almost every time a test page is
attempted it fails. A few times it printed a single page with the
following text on it:

ERROR: syntaxerror
OFFENDING COMMAND: --nostringval--

STACK:

/hfRedeFont

Does anyone have suggestions about what to do next (buying a new
printer is not an option)?

Thanks

On Wed, 23 Jan 2008 07:50:59 -0800 (PST), in comp.periphs.printers
Monty <dale.schmitz@offutt.af.mil> wrote:

>I hope this is a good forum for my question.
>
>I'm trying to install an HP Laserjet 4000 on a Windows network as a
>network printer. The printer has a Jeet Direct card installed and the
>hosts can ping and telnet into the printer. I've downloaded the
>latest LJ4000 drivers in PCL 6 and HP Universal Postcript, but for
>some reason I just can't communicate with the printer. As previously
>mentioned I can ping the printer and telnet to it, but the standard
>Windows and HP installation processes go no where with the error that
>the printer could not be found. Almost every time a test page is
>attempted it fails. A few times it printed a single page with the
>following text on it:
>
>ERROR: syntaxerror
>OFFENDING COMMAND: --nostringval--
>
>STACK:
>
>/hfRedeFont
>
>Does anyone have suggestions about what to do next (buying a new
>printer is not an option)?

When installing the printer, do NOT install it as a network printer.
Install it as a local printer and when asked for the port create a new
Standard TCP/IP port using the printer's IP address.