HP LaserJet 1200 with "undefined" error

With the help of some other posters in the Printing discussions, I believe I have found the solution to the extra error page. This is what I did:

In the Print & Fax preference pane of System Preferences, I control-clicked in the left Printers column and selected "Reset Printing System…"

Then I re-added my printer to the list using the HP LaserJet 1200-Gutenprint driver.

Now I can print without the extra page. I hope this solution helps.

THANK YOU!!! This works for my hp psc 1610xi and psc 2410xi as well. WOW!

Bravo. Many thanks for figuring this out. Do I presume that Gutenprint drivers should be used for all legacy (ie, pre-Leopard) printers?

b

You are most welcome! I'm so glad it worked for you, as well. I am not knowledgeable enough about the Gutenprint drivers to know if they are appropriate for all legacy printers, but it is certainly worth a try in order to utilize an otherwise fine, older printer.

You are welcome.

A combination of reading posts on this forum, Google searches, and trial & error led me to the solution posted above. I'm happy to hear you were able to print your flyers!

Here is a brief overview about Gutenprint drivers: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gutenprint

You do not need to 'reset printing system' - in my case it was enough just to change the driver to the one of Gutenprint series (the problems in my case were also with HP LJ 1200).

Pawel

I am having the same problem, but neither of these fixes worked for me. When I switch to the Gutenprint driver, the print job freezes in most cases, and when it doesn't freeze, it prints a line of garbage on the very last line of many, many pages. It doesn't seem to matter which program I'm printing from.

I have the same issue. I've noticed that when I select the Gutenprint driver for the LaserJet 1200 I have a very different looking printer displayed. Somehow that driver is not related to the LaserJet 1200. I'll stick with the old driver and the extra page till the issue is resolved.

The Gutenprint Driver dows not help me, as the driver makes my prints not as sharp as the HP driver and letter spacing is not accurate either.
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Hi. I had this exact problem with my HP Laserjet 2300d right after I installed OS 10.5. I tried installing an update to the HP drivers that is available for 10.5 with no success. As well, I didn't try the Gutenprint option because it just didn't make sense to me that the HP drivers alone were faulty. Anyways, what fixed it for me was the "Installed options" setting. This can be accessed by going into the "Print and Fax" preference panel. When you select the printer, click on "Options and Supplies". In my case, my printer is a duplex enabled printer, but under the "Driver" panel, the "Duplex Unit" setting was not selected as one of the installed options. I clicked the checkbox for that feature and now it prints perfectly fine without any error page. Perhaps the problem is the opposite for the Laserjet 1200 users: their printers are not duplex-enabled, but the duplex option is selected, generating an error whenever the computer negotiates a connection with the printer.

I hope this helps, otherwise my getting and resolving this error is just an odd coincidence.

11/07 post by Bill Gregory still accurate! Thanks to Google for finding this post and Thanks to Bill for making it. I'm "just" a user and even I could follow it.

At first I thought the "Gutenwhatever" driver was the soution; weirdly, I have EXACTLY the same setup as the OP. I followed the procedures, installed the driver, and voila - no more extra error page.

Except the print quality is horrible. White spaces that surround text are now randomly gray with tiny dots; graphics look awful; fuzzy and unclear. I compared pages printed with the old driver (followed by the error page) and the Guten **** driver (with no error page) and the print quality is SO different it's amazing that driver is even used!

Guess I'm stuck with an extra page, because I can't use documents that look this bad.

have you tried setting up with IP Printer > HP Jetdirect protocol (enter the IP address of the Jetdirect)? this is a good alternative to appletalk for using the HP original driver (postscript).