Did you try disabling Bidi communication in the driver properties?
When you install the drivers locally, does it still happen?

I am experiencing similar problems with the W5300 on the network, either from WinXP Pro or using a Win2003 print server. It is intermittent and very difficult to reproduce the problem to determine the cause.
 
I have noticed two specific issues that may be related:

1. When printing many print jobs (hundreds of single page jobs), if the printer runs out of paper, the computer becomes seriously bogged down.  Printing continues when paper is added, although the printer occasionally skips a print job.
   
   
2. When printing from an IE browser using Ctrl-P or right click Print, the computer pauses then displays Print dialog box with the Print button greyed out. I have noticed this quite often using the “Printer Friendly� option available on some websites.
   
   The only resolution is to reboot and reload the page to print it.  Reinstalling the driver does nothing. 

I am not certain where to point the finger yet, but I am certain that the sequential print jobs are going somewhere into never-never-land because it happens a few times a week.
 
Let’s hope we can find a resolution to this problem.

If you disable BiDi (bidirectional) communication between the driver and the printer, does it still happen?

Good question.  Now how would I go about doing that?

The printer is connected directly to the network, so I looked up the settings in configure network port and noticed the End of Job timeout was set to 90 seconds.  I wonder if this might be why we are loosing jobs because we don't change the paper fast enough.

Print Server Settings (via web interface)

Ethernet 10/100

Standard Network Card
   Status:                        Connected
   Speed, Duplex:                 100 Mbps, Half Duplex
   Current Date & Time:           2004-10-06 07:29
   End-of-Job Timeout:            90
   UAA (MSB, Canonical):          002000EC3164, 000400378C26
   LAA:                           000000000000, 000000000000
   Firmware, Bootcode Revision:   55.10.19, NA
   Compi:                         bld-lib, 551.019, 07-Apr-04 12:58

Integrated Network Option Settings
   Printer Type:                  Dell Laser Printer W5300

TCP/IP
   Active:                        Yes
   Enable DHCP:                   No
   Enable BOOTP:                  No
   Enable RARP:                   No
   Address Source:                Manual
   IP Address:                    192.168.0.152
   Netmask:                       255.255.255.0
   Gateway:                       192.168.0.6
   Hostname:                      W5300
   WINS Status:                   Registered
   WINS Server:                   192.168.0.3

I appreciate any suggestions that you might have.

Thanks!

 

 

 

Message Edited by djbaldwin on 10-06-2004 07:36 AM

I have disabled Bidi support and it stilled happened.  I also used the Lexmark driver and disabled the bidi support.  I have finally taken the win2003 server out of the picture and now users print directly to the w5300.  This seems to have remedied the problem.  I wish dell would release new drivers that say it supports win2003.

 

You can use Lexmark drivers for T63x which support Windows 2003 server.
You can find them on Lexmark website.

I know I can use the lexmark drivers but they did not solve my problem.  One thing that is confusing to me is that on the server you can enable and disable the BiDi support but on the desktop computers the option is greyed out.

 

When you upgrade the driver on the server, are you sure that all your workstations are getting upgraded as well?
I'd advise deinstalling all instances of drivers, cleaning up the registry, installing Lexmark driver for 2003 Server and using "point and print" to distribute it on the workstations.

The BiDi option may be grayed if you did not install the BiDi support (The lexmark site has 2 downloads, one for the driver and a second to install BiDi support).

yes, I have several HP printers on my network, HP 4050, two HP4200, HP 5N, HP 2200, HP 2300.   All in all I will never ever buy a Dell printer again in my life.  HP have their act together, Dell needs to pull their head out.