ANYONE KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT PRINTERS???HELP PLEASE!!!!

[buffythenappyslayer]

been trying to print out some party invites,but the sodding printer isnt doing anything!!

its plugged in,lights are on,paper in it,cable in the back going to the laptop,but when i click to print it just sits there doing sod all!!!

what am i doing wrong??

does it need to go in the bin??(its heading that way!!)

need to get these invites done as alot are getting sent abroad!!

hoping someone can help!!thank you!

[buffythenappyslayer]

no they were all in properly.

thinks its going on the blink as its making really odd noises and is going unbelievably slow.

weve had nothing but probs with it since we bought it.its been sent back to hp twice!!

[hub2dee]

You mean the cable was loose, right ?

[buffythenappyslayer]

thank you everyone!!!

i swore at it,threatened to put it in the nappy bin (oh yes,im ruthless,no ordinary bin would have been bad enough!!),i pulled its bits and bobs to bits,replugged them in and with one last evil glance,it surrendered and started printing!!!

it is now struggling through 40 invites!!!ha!!!i'll teach it to mess with me!!!

but thank you everyone for suggesting what to do!!!

[hub2dee]

Do you have a hammer ?

[buffythenappyslayer]

got it going!!!!but its not printing all the invite.its decided to annoy me even more by chopping it in bits!!!

[hub2dee]

When you say 1 pending for dh.... you need to delete / kill this job IMHO.

[Polgara2]

You can get at it from the Start menu, printers and faxes!

[buffythenappyslayer]

the little printer symbol has dissappeared now!

OMG what am i doing??!!!

[buffythenappyslayer]

just turned it off and back on again and it clonked and you can hear the scanner thing going across

[Polgara2]

When you have the printer window open and go into properties, ask it to print test page see if this works.

[buffythenappyslayer]

think it does all the checking do dah when its first switched on.it clonked about and flashed but just that and nothing else

[buffythenappyslayer]

did the thing to print offline,just ticked it,and didnt do anything,changed it back,still nothing

me thinks this printer doesnt like me!

[buffythenappyslayer]

just right clicked it and opened printer thingy.still just says 1 document pending for dh

[Polgara2]

Does it do any of the print tests like checking nozzles or cleaning print heads?

[SaintGeorge]

Control Panel, Printers, select your printer.

When you have the little window up, select printer again.

There is an option 'use printer offline'.

I can never remember which way round it is but either tick or untick then try printing again.

[buffythenappyslayer]

it doesnt say paused or anything.dh filled it up with ink last time it was used.(about a week ago)

think might just blame dh for doing something to it!

dont understand why its just sat there looking at me not doing as its been told!!(must have been paying attention to my kids!!)

[Polgara2]

Will it print from another application? Or like a screen dump from the internet?

[Saggarmakersbottomknocker]

Right click on the little icon, open the active printer, right click on the document and purge the printer. Then start again......maybe!?!

[hub2dee]

In extremis, Windows can lose USB capability... it kind of forgets it's there IYSWIM. Fairly rare, but it does happen... I presume your USB bus / hub is visible, and 100% OK in 'Devices Manager' / 'hardware manager' thingy ?

[hub2dee]

Are you sure your queue is not paused, and that the printer is not wanting ink, and is not 'off line' (ie you might need to press ;online' or 'ready' or 'go' or somesuch...

[hub2dee]

Blimey... eveveryone types so much faster than me, LOL.

[buffythenappyslayer]

ive taken all cables out,plonked back in,still nothing!

turned it all off,and then back on,the pc makes a ding dong noise (am sooooo technically minded you see!!) and nothing!

there is a document waiting to be printed,but its my invites!only wanted to print one at first to see how it looks.but its just sat there.

the lights are all on the printer and it did its usual noisey bit when i switched it on.

GOD IM SOO STRESSED!!!!!

[hub2dee]

Turn printer off. Turn computer off. Wait 30 seconds. Turn printer on. Turn puter on. See if that helps ? Check cable sitting very soundly at each end, and you could do worse than trying another USB port (is it a attached to a hub per chance ?)

Else - Control Panel / Printers / look at the print jobs... it can be possible to 'pause' the print spooler so jobs 'back up' (like a blocked drain), and you will need to unpause the jobs. It will then splurge out crap for ages (with print jobs you asked it to do which it didn't do IYSWIM).

hth

[Saggarmakersbottomknocker]

Is the printer set to 'Pause printing'? Right click on the little printer icon in the bottom right corner (if it's there) & check.

[Polgara2]

Assuming you do find your printer listed click on it to see if any documents are waiting to be printed. May sound obvious but have you checked all the cables in the back of the printer AND the back of the pc, they can get knocked sometimes and won't talk to each other if connection not secure.