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06-10-2011, 02:06 PM
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help nerds
My printer wont print no more. Worked fine yesterday, last nite the storms came thru. It errors out trying to print now. Restarted power on the printer, replugged usb cable, nada.
Instantly errors out when I try to print.
Any ideas?
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06-10-2011, 02:17 PM
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Old Guy
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Mansfield, MA
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what kind of errors? did you have it behind a surge protector or ups?
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06-10-2011, 03:20 PM
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pooter is on a ups and I shut it down last night when the power went out. I think the printer is on there too I have to look again.
says "document failed to print" and print queue says error failed to print
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06-10-2011, 03:23 PM
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printer is on ups
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06-10-2011, 03:24 PM
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computer has been rebooted 2 times to make sure no issues.
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06-10-2011, 03:47 PM
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reinstalling driver. it wouldn't find the printer any more til I deleted and reinstalled driver. wierd. works now.
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06-10-2011, 03:49 PM
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The computer got shut down before the ups died, the display was shut off and the printer was left. Why would losing power to the printer make the shut down computer lose the ability to print to it's driver.
real wierd.
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06-10-2011, 06:00 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: A village some where
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the print spooler is the issue, its in services, usually starting and stoping it may fix it, but probably now. un install the software, reboot make sure the print spooler is set to automatic in services.msc, then reinstall the software for the printer. make sure the printer is set to default inside the printer option in control panel. if that dont work its broke!
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06-10-2011, 08:35 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2002
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another issue is that sometimes printers stubbornly won't function until a print job is either completed or deleted ....out of memory
so go in and see if anything is still waiting to print
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06-10-2011, 09:04 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Raven
another issue is that sometimes printers stubbornly won't function until a print job is either completed or deleted ....out of memory
so go in and see if anything is still waiting to print
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if this is xp
go to the command prompt (Click Start > Run > type: “cmd” without the quotes) and typed “NET STOP SPOOLER”
Then go to C:\WINDOWS\System32\spool\PRINTERS and delete the files
then restart the print spooler by typing “NET START SPOOLER” at the command prompt |
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06-11-2011, 03:58 AM
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reinstalled the driver completely and it's fine now. Still don't get why it would do this if the computer was off. Very messed up.
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06-11-2011, 12:41 PM
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I've lost devices or apps without any lightning or any really likely cause. Sometime $hite happens!
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06-11-2011, 02:28 PM
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Yea. We lost power again today, wife says was about 1/2 hour. Didn't have any issues today and computer was still running when I got home.
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06-11-2011, 03:42 PM
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i am assuming its XP or vista, they have a tendency to corrupt printer drivers esp usb ones.
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06-11-2011, 08:04 PM
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x pee
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