Hi,

I am having a very similar problem with a HP 648C and a Windows ME
computer. I can not print to the printer, or any other printer I have
trie, using the parallel port. All I get is garbled text and multiple
pages, similar to Shari, I can
not print successfully from notepad or the self test or anywhere else in
windows, however, the dos print (lpt1) command works. I think there
might be something wrong with a setting at the bios level. Any help would
be greatly appreciated. I have confirmed that the printer is working fine
and there are no IRQ conflicts.

Thank you!