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Error: Need instructions on purging memory for HP Officejet 300 All-in-one- Turned unit off during printing. Now unit prints endless garbage characters in page header even after being unplugged for 1+ Days
I know it is considered the unforgivable sin to turn off a printer in
the middle of a print job but I sent a job to the printer that was 1 page long and it started reprinting the job over and over again.(No I didn't tell it to print more than once!) I stopped it after the 10th printing of the job by turning the printer off. I waited about a minute then tried again. It printed garbage data to the first to lines of the page and then fed the paper through and repeated this behavior continually. I then turned it off again but this time unplugged it and waited a few minutes ....again the same behavior. I finally waited a day with the printer unplugged and still the same behavior. I was hoping a method existed of purging whatever memory location of instructions and/or printer data that was making the 300 print even after being unplugged from the electrical outlet, so that it simply stops printing and returns to normal. Similar to hitting the reset button on a PC stuck in a loop. Any help would be appreciated, |
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Error: Need instructions on purging memory for HP Officejet 300All-in-one- Turned unit off during printing. Now unit prints endless garbagecharacters in page header even after being unplugged for 1+ Days
**jt** wrote:
I know it is considered the unforgivable sin to turn off a printer in the middle of a print job but I sent a job to the printer that was 1 page long and it started reprinting the job over and over again.(No I didn't tell it to print more than once!) I stopped it after the 10th printing of the job by turning the printer off. I waited about a minute then tried again. It printed garbage data to the first to lines of the page and then fed the paper through and repeated this behavior continually. I then turned it off again but this time unplugged it and waited a few minutes ....again the same behavior. I finally waited a day with the printer unplugged and still the same behavior. I was hoping a method existed of purging whatever memory location of instructions and/or printer data that was making the 300 print even after being unplugged from the electrical outlet, so that it simply stops printing and returns to normal. Similar to hitting the reset button on a PC stuck in a loop. Any help would be appreciated, Check your printers in control panel. Delete the print job. |
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Error: Need instructions on purging memory for HP Officejet 300 All-in-one- Turned unit off during printing. Now unit prints endless garbage characters in page header even after being unplugged for 1+ Days
I'm sorry.... that was the very first thing I did. I've since
restarted the pc that initiated the print job a few times so that definitely isn't it. I will try to restart the print spooler and of course I think I read that the first thing to do to stop a bad print job in progress is to PAUSE the print job and then cancel and purge it but that's for next time On Dec 20, 1:21 pm, Pen wrote: **jt** wrote: I know it is considered the unforgivable sin to turn off a printer in the middle of a print job but I sent a job to the printer that was 1 page long and it started reprinting the job over and over again.(No I didn't tell it to print more than once!) I stopped it after the 10th printing of the job by turning the printer off. I waited about a minute then tried again. It printed garbage data to the first to lines of the page and then fed the paper through and repeated this behavior continually. I then turned it off again but this time unplugged it and waited a few minutes ....again the same behavior. I finally waited a day with the printer unplugged and still the same behavior. I was hoping a method existed of purging whatever memory location of instructions and/or printer data that was making the 300 print even after being unplugged from the electrical outlet, so that it simply stops printing and returns to normal. Similar to hitting the reset button on a PC stuck in a loop. Any help would be appreciated,Check your printers in control panel. Delete the print job. |
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Error: Need instructions on purging memory for HP Officejet 300 All-in-one- Turned unit off during printing. Now unit prints endless garbage characters in page header even after being unplugged for 1+ Days
On Dec 20 2006, 2:47 pm, "**jt**" wrote:
I'm sorry.... that was the very first thing I did. I've since restarted the pc that initiated the print job a few times so that definitely isn't it. I will try to restart the print spooler and of course I think I read that the first thing to do to stop a bad print job in progress is to PAUSE the print job and then cancel and purge it but that's for next time On Dec 20, 1:21 pm, Pen wrote: **jt** wrote: I know it is considered the unforgivable sin to turn off a printer in the middle of a print job but I sent a job to the printer that was 1 page long and it started reprinting the job over and over again.(No I didn't tell it to print more than once!) I stopped it after the 10th printing of the job by turning the printer off. I waited about a minute then tried again. It printed garbage data to the first to lines of the page and then fed the paper through and repeated this behavior continually. I then turned it off again but this time unplugged it and waited a few minutes ....again the same behavior. I finally waited a day with the printer unplugged and still the same behavior. I was hoping a method existed of purging whatever memory location of instructions and/or printer data that was making the 300 print even after being unplugged from the electrical outlet, so that it simply stops printing and returns to normal. Similar to hitting the reset button on a PC stuck in a loop. Any help would be appreciated,Check your printers in control panel. Delete the print job. The way to fix the problem after much frustration is to stop and then restart your print spooler. Finally, go to the printers and faxes dialogue and delete the job. so at a command line type: "net stop spooler && net start spooler then type exit go to printers and faxes and delete the job. |
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