Viz Vista by Ed Tittel

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Tag >> XPS
Sep 20
2008

Yikes! A Positive Encounter with Dell Tech Support

Posted by Ed Tittel in XPSXML Paper SpecificationWindows VistaVista troubleshootingUSB printer portPrint Filter Pipeline Host errorGoToAssist

I bought a Dell All-in-one (AIO) 968 printer a little over a month ago, to replace the aging Brother fax/printer I purchased almost 10 years ago for my business. Some of the vendors for whom I work require me to fax contracts back to them to get paid, so I'm quite naturally eager to retain fax capability. Alas, however, Vista sent me a "Print Filter Pipeline Host" error every time I tried to use this device, and despite uninstalling and reinstalling the driver, I was not able to make it go away. Each time I re-tried my print job, however, the output would be produced, despite this initial error. Now that I know what the cause was, I'm pretty impressed that anything worked at all.

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