Re: My printer prints blank pages all the time
On Thu, Mar 29, 2001 at 01:53:04PM +0200, Alberto Garc?a wrote:
> It even prints when I haven?t logged in (at the login window in
> Gnome). I?ve commented every line in /etc/printcap and doesn?t work.
> Thanks in advance Yope.
Did you mess up a print attempt at some point?
With my old HP DeskJet, if a print job messed up in any way or if I
tried to stop one somehow the thing would go NUTS. It would spit out
page after page, some blank but most with a line or so of gibberish
ASCI characters (as if it was pissing on my paper to taunt me or
something).
Even if I turned off the printer and rebooted Linux, the printer would
keep spitting out blank and ASCI-pissed-on pages as soon as I turned
it back on, so I had to just leave it on and let it run its course.
There is supposed to be some arcane magical way of pressing the
buttons to clear the printer's memory and make it stop, but this is of
course not mentioned in HP's documentation so I couldn't try it.
That may or may not be your problem.
Excuse me while I go hug my new laser printer.
--
Tom
"The chief danger in life is that you may take too may precautions."
-Alfred Adler
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