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22/07/2010, 9:50 Gastines Joined on 23/08/2004 Les Gastines.St.Pere 5mins St.Malo Posts 1,188 Any computer buffs out there please? I would appreciate any advice regarding the problem 'My printer won't print!' For some unknown reason my printer refused to print out a ticket yesterday, today I wanted to print out some photos, so duly selected them as usual, some 12 I think but the printer would only print out the last 2????? I have tried all the permutations I know to fix it but to no avail, I might add that I know nothing about computers/printers but the tricks which usually work have failed miserably. Any advice would be greatly appreciated, thanks, Mrs Gastines.    Report

22/07/2010, 9:58 nectarine Joined on 02/08/2007 Lot-et-Garonne (47) Posts 588 Re: Any computer buffs out there please? what operating system do you have ... Windows XP, Windows 7 ...? Also, what kind of printer? But first off, check all cables and connections. Shut down PC and restart ... often some glitches can be fixed by restarting the PC and refreshing all system settings. Try that and tell us what happens, and also your computer system and printer make. If we all threw our problems in a pile and saw everyone else's, we'd grab ours back    Report

22/07/2010, 13:43 Gastines Joined on 23/08/2004 Les Gastines.St.Pere 5mins St.Malo Posts 1,188 Re: Any computer buffs out there please? Windows XP .Hewlet/Packard+PSC1317 printer/scanner. Prints when it feels like it. Checked all leads/plugs. Starts printing, a few lines of print.stops. Lump hammer next!! Regards.    Report

22/07/2010, 18:16 Russethouse Joined on 23/08/2004 Forum Moderator Posts 12,291 Re: Any computer buffs out there please? Have you tried deleting the printer then reloading the software.? Looks like the drivers may be on line here www.quimperclub.org 99    Report

23/07/2010, 6:31 Clarkkent Joined on 23/08/2004 Posts 873 Re: Any computer buffs out there please? My first thought is that this is a print queue problem. You have print jobs lined up and something is preventing their output. Is there a small printer icon in the tray at the bottom of the screen on the right hand side? If so you should be able to access the print queue (a list of documents waiting to be printed). If the queue is stalled, you will be able to resart it, or you can delete all the documents in the queue and start again.    Report

23/07/2010, 9:09 Gastines Joined on 23/08/2004 Les Gastines.St.Pere 5mins St.Malo Posts 1,188 Re: Any computer buffs out there please? Many thanks for assistance. After several hours of plugging/unplugging/swearing etc etc. all seems to be;dare I say it;OK. The trouble with being old I suspect,our granchildren ,early teens, are not intimidated by pressing the wrong button.    Report

23/07/2010, 11:02 pachapapa Joined on 02/06/2008 Posts 1,431 Re: Any computer buffs out there please?  Clarkkent wrote: My first thought is that this is a print queue problem. You have print jobs lined up and something is preventing their output. Is there a small printer icon in the tray at the bottom of the screen on the right hand side? If so you should be able to access the print queue (a list of documents waiting to be printed). If the queue is stalled, you will be able to resart it, or you can delete all the documents in the queue and start again. Always been this problem with me. The spooler/print Q is a hangover from office computers that were configured , for example, to print the Q at night, during the lunch break, at the weekend ,etc,etc. I personally have never in a home environment found the slightest reason to use this administrative complication. All I want to do is to print IMMEDIATELY. I would suggest that you reconfigure the printer to print immediately without creating a Q. I have a french OS and some of my explanation may border on literal translation, I offer my apologies. Click on Start/ in right margin of Pop-Up click on Printers/in the Pop-Up which appears click on Printer Icon with RIGHT mouse button/ the contextual menu will appear/ click on Properties at bottom/ in the Pop-Up which appears click on the Advanced Tab at top/ yet another Pop-Up will appear, half way down in the Spooler configuration section, click on Radio-Button entitled  Print document directly on Printer. The Radio-Button for Spooling will disappear. Click on Apply,click on OK. Job finished.      Report

23/07/2010, 11:44 Quillan Joined on 23/08/2004 Forum Moderator Posts 6,282 Re: Any computer buffs out there please? If you remove the print queue and are say browsing a website quickly and printing of different pages before the first has finished printing what will happen? http://www.chambresdhote.com    Report

23/07/2010, 13:34 pachapapa Joined on 02/06/2008 Posts 1,431 Re: Any computer buffs out there please?  Quillan wrote: If you remove the print queue and are say browsing a website quickly and printing of different pages before the first has finished printing what will happen? I dont know! It would never occur to me to disable spooling when I am likely to use the computer in a situation where I am almost certain to create a Q of tasks awaiting use of the printer. These are exactly the paradigm of spooling logic and should be obeyed. However I would hazard a guess that the printer wil register as occupied and refuse the task until such time as it has finished the current task; perhaps then a pop-up appears on the desktop informing that the previous task is complete and inviting the submission of another task. These days with large hard disks and cheap memory keys the chances of me requiring hard copy are remote; in the last year I recollect 6 X monthly Credit Agricole statements for the Hôtel des Impôts and 8 X boarding cards for Mr Ryan. In the event of wider dissemination of documents I would use the 25 GigaBytes of Windows Sky Drive.    Report

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