Printer - appears fine, only removing plug works!

osaddictosaddict London, UK
edited June 2008 in Science & Tech
Right, I've had just about enough from the f*ckin* printer in the corner today...

1. Status lights on the front indicate ready.
2. Job just sits in the queue and refuses to print, the same for others
3. Can see the printer via hostname in Firefox and can ping it
4. Yank out power cord, replace power cord, magically it starts printing

I've had to do this 4 times today, and it's getting a little tiresome!

Any ideas? I'm about to have an Office Space moment soon otherwise!

(I tried to get on to the HP forums but they are so useless its unbelievable)

Comments

  • kryystkryyst Ontario, Canada
    edited June 2008
    Ok, have you got the right drivers installed and are you perhaps printing a document that is overrunning the printers buffer. I've seen this behavior many times before when people are trying to print pdf's to low grade networked printers. If you take say a 5mb pdf and go to print it, then look at the print queue it's entirely possible that document will expand to 100+mbs in the print queue status. If you have a ****ty little printer attached it just can't handle the load, the buffer gets overrun and it hangs.

    I don't know if this is your case - just saying I've seen what your describing several times and this has been the reason.
  • osaddictosaddict London, UK
    edited June 2008
    That would kinda make sense I reckon, its a HP 2015dn - which I believe is classed as small workgroup - the majority of the time this is fine - people will print out a simple web page a few times a week and thats it, however, sometimes a couple of people send a high res pdf or indesign file to the printer - and you can see it clogs it up.

    Just seems annoying the only way to cure it is to yank the power out - when you power it up again it continues to print what ever else was sent to it in most cases...
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