Oh, all these high tech machines, sheesh
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| Thu, 09-23-2004 - 4:27am |
Anyhow, on top of that I'm finally ready to ditch this stupid HP printer, it's an HP desk jet 952c. When it's working, it's just fine, prints well enough for our purposes. Right now it won't do squat - it has refused to even recognize an order to print for 2 days, it does this from time to time, and probably in another couple of days out of the blue it'll print again. The other problem that has driven us nuts with this printer is how it goes beserk from time to time and just spits out page after page after page of either totally blank paper, OR even worse when it prints a single line of nonsense along the top of every page. We've learned to just keep feeding it the same 20 pieces of paper until it quits, but sometimes we're talking about 200-300 pages total, you think it will never stop. We've never been able to figure that out, but I've read it's some quirk in HP's printers. It will NOT allow you to cancel the last print job in the que, tried that many times, nothing happens.
Any recommendations for a new printer? I know our options are a better, more expensive one, but do you still have to spring $38 per cartridge for ink for those? But I read unless you need a pricey printer, don't go that route, pick up an inexpensive one, but I know all about how we pay $550 per gallon for ink in the cartridges, too, so that's not "inexpensive" in my mind. What are the options??? I'd rather hear it from you folks instead of doing more research that sounds confusing. Any particular brands and models you all are happy with?

The FIX.
1.Physically disconnect all the cables between the printer and the PC including power.
2.Uninstall the printer from the PC, you can do this by using the software disc that came with the printer or use add/remove programs, and or add/remove hardware.
3.Power off the PC
4.Plug in the printer and reconnect all of its cables.
5.Power up the PC
6.Reinstall the printer software.
this should solve your printer and performance issues.
I can't help you with the price of toner its simply industry price gouging.
Ed
if your computer is running slow could it be trying to do too many things? Press controll alt delete (but only one time; 2x wil restart your computer). I think whatever you see on this cute little new menu is what´s running on your computer at the moment(also when you press controll alt delete everything freezes).Before you press "end task" on any highlighted item be sure you know what it is ( sometimes I don´t, and wow! do I make myself problems). Hope this helps
I can't remember do you have XP?
When I had Norton 2002 when I would click on Send from OE a box would pop up as the message was being scanned if it had a picture or something besides plain text it could take a couple seconds. Plain text it would pop up so fast then be gone because there was only plain text to scan. But now with Norton 2004 a little box, pops up under everything down above my clock that I never saw untill I hit send and then closed OE almost at the same time. So the new version still did the pop up scanning but because it was behind the open OE I never saw it. lol...... I noticed too that now with the Norton, Zone Alarm, and my ISP now scans my mail that it comes in slower than it used to. Before it could just run through the open doors now it has to open each door and it just takes longer.
If you run all your maintenance to get rid of all the old stuff. Run Adaware, Spybot, and your McAfee make sure you have all the old
Have a nice day !.