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There is no downloadable driver for the HP Laserjet 4 series of printers as they are built into Windows starting with Windows XP. The driver that you should select can be either the Laserjet 4 or 4 Plus as they are both the same printer. (What made the 4 into a 4 Plus was the addition of the Jet Direct card that allowed attachment to an Ethernet network.)
To answer your question: What you are experiencing is a driver type miss-match. The printer cannot understand the driver language that Vista is providing. Even though it is labeled as HP LaserJet 4 Plus.
I recommend trying the plain HP LaserJet 4 drivers or Lexmark Optra drivers. They may speak the language the printer likes, through Vista. If that does not work; it is time to purchase or use a newer printer.
That sounds like a problem with your printer driver to me. If the wrong driver is used, then print codes that the other device uses will not be interpreted correctly by your Laserjet 4M Plus, which will cause it to beep. Check the driver on your computer to make sure that you are using one designed for any of the following:
HP Laserjet 4 HP Laserjet 4+ HP Laserjet 4M HP Laserjet 4M Plus
(Either the symbol "+" or the word "Plus" may be used but most commonly the + is the non-Postscript version and the word is used with the Postscript version. Just as an FYI, the only two differences between the M and non-M versions are the ability to speak Appletalk and the addition of the Postscript module, which is in one of the RAM expansion slots.)
i would say reinstall the driver, wouldnt be a schoolboys trick even sometimes the schoolboys know more than the teachers when it comes to technology.
Try the machines with a seporate machine thats a freash install and see it does the same thing, this a driver issue, and sometimes the students can hack into the machine and asking the printer to just print just one page of the document, you can select pages in a print box in word / Internet explorer for example.
And you can ask the printer to print two pages onto one page.
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