printer weirdness

[cellio]

New odd printer behavior: when printing from Trope Trainer run under CrossOver, if I print a document it prints the first page and then the printer's orange lights go on. I wasted a chunk of last night trying to clear a jam that was clearly not present. I confirmed that suspicion by moving the printer cable to the PC, where things printed fine. Back to the Mac, and test pages wouldn't print. Hmm.

Tonight I was able to mostly characterize it, and it's weird: after the first page prints, the printer will stay in that state until I go to some other application (I used TextEdit) and initiate a print, at which point it becomes unstuck and gives me my next page. (I do not need to actually print from TextEdit; once the printer wakes up I can cancel.) Iterate until done. I'm 99% sure I've printed from this configuration of Trope Trainer before, though there's been an HP driver update since then. No other apps seem to be adversely affected.

Now that I have a workaround I can just chalk it up to random weirdness, at least until I get annoyed enough by HP-Mac incompatibilities to go buy another printer. But my hardware seems intent on keeping me on my toes.

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Now that I have a workaround

Ah, the voodoo magic of hardware. It makes the programmer in me cringe, but I do that sort of thing too, so can't complain...