print spooler crashes startup network printer won t ins

Hi All, I have been trying to get a Minolta magicolor 2300DL network printer to work with Beta 2 for several days. It should work. I can ping the printer and see the printers HTTP web configuration page. All my other computers use it. The install new printer wizzard cannot find the network printer so I configure the IP address manually. Everything looks good but I cannot print test page. I have tried the 2300DL XP drivers and the Windows Vista Update 2430DL drivers. It is just a RAW write to port 9100. To kill print documents or delete printer useally hangs requiring re-boot. After many tries I now get print spooler crash error message at startup and cannot do anything with Control Panel>Printers as the service is not running. Any ideas on how to clear the print spool and delete printer so I can try more stuff?
TIA, Kent

Some Minolta drivers have issues with stack corruption on XP. If the driver was designed for XP it may have the same failure.
here's info to clean the drivers.
http://members.shaw.ca/bsanders/CleanPrinterDrivers.htm
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Hi All, I have been trying to get a Minolta magicolor 2300DL network printer to work with Beta 2 for several days. It should work. I can ping the printer and see the printers HTTP web configuration page. All my other computers use it. The install new printer wizzard cannot find the network printer so I configure the IP address manually. Everything looks good but I cannot print test page. I have tried the 2300DL XP drivers and the Windows Vista Update 2430DL drivers. It is just a RAW write to port 9100. To kill print documents or delete printer useally hangs requiring re-boot. After many tries I now get print spooler crash error message at startup and cannot do anything with Control Panel>Printers as the service is not running. Any ideas on how to clear the print spool and delete printer so I can try more stuff?
TIA, Kent

In order to install the printer use the setup.exe file that comes with the driver and don't use the add printer wizard. You get the same print spooler crash in XP if you use the add printer wizard but if you use the setup file it installs fine in both XP and Vista Beta 2.
Make sure and delete the printer before you begin and if you are using the ethernet interface and not sharing it off of another computer, during setup choose to install it as a local printer and pick any of the port choices it gives (lpt or file) and once it completes the install go back into the properties and change the port to the IP port.
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In order to install the printer use the setup.exe file that comes with the driver and don't use the add printer wizard. You get the same print spooler crash in XP if you use the add printer wizard but if you use the setup file it installs fine in both XP and Vista Beta 2.
Make sure and delete the printer before you begin and if you are using the ethernet interface and not sharing it off of another computer, during setup choose to install it as a local printer and pick any of the port choices it gives (lpt or file) and once it completes the install go back into the properties and change the port to the IP port.
The setup.exe will not run correctly. Something about a .JAR file crashing.

I think there is some bug/incompatibility with the networking or security features and the network printer installation wizard/drivers. The wizard cannot find the printer even thought I can reliably ping the printer's IP address. There seems to be intermittant unreliable communication to the printer. The driver seems to know the printer has paper and will report "Job sent to printer" and sometimes change icon to having the image of two people upon it. I suspect firewall or networking bug.