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Re: Difficult HP Printer problem

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From Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
Newsgroups comp.sys.mac.system
Subject Re: Difficult HP Printer problem
Date 18 Dec 2014 00:30:36 GMT
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On 2014-12-18, paulfuchs@spamain'tkosher.oink <paulfuchs@spamain'tkosher.oink> wrote:
> My girlfriend has a HP Inkjet F4480 printer and has been having a lot of
> trouble with it which suddenly started about 10 days ago. It has a USB
> cable connection and is not on any network. She can only print one job
> file after it is turned on.  After the first, the queue reads that the
> file is 100% complete but won't disappear.  The easiest way to print the
> next file is to delete the completed file from the queue manually and
> turn off and restart the printer and then switch to a different app like
> the browser.  Very strange.  She has an Airbook running 10.9.5.  So far
> we deleted and then downloaded the HP driver and ran disk utilities on
> her hard drive.  The latter reported all errors were repaired
> successfully.  We have tried printing in Word and Textedit to check
> whether there was some sort of incompatibility between the driver and WP
> app, but the same problems occurred in both.  She has almost  new HP
> cartridges in the printer.
>
> I have a MacBook Pro running 10.8.5 and I downloaded the driver for this
> printer through Apple just as we did for my girlfriend's Airbook, only
> this time the printer functioned flawlessly in all respects.  Anyone
> have any ideas what else we can try?

Watch the console and system logs while attempting to print to see what
error messages are sent to the log. Feel free to post messages with time
stamps corresponding to the time you actually printed here for
diagnosis.

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JR

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Difficult HP Printer problem paulfuchs@spamain'tkosher.oink - 2014-12-17 18:17 -0600
  Re: Difficult HP Printer problem Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-12-18 00:30 +0000
  Re: Difficult HP Printer problem Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-12-18 00:32 +0000
  Re: Difficult HP Printer problem David Ritz <dritz@mindspring.com> - 2014-12-17 21:52 -0600
  Re: Difficult HP Printer problem Fred McKenzie <fmmck@aol.com> - 2014-12-18 13:02 -0500

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