[X Newbies] Printer problems on X

[Zathras' Lackey]

I had a similar problem with my Canon S450 a couple of days ago.  I 
used the print utility to clean the rollers and jets.  Nothing helped 
until I turned it over and shook out a small collection of Japanese 
Beetles hat had taken up residence.  I'm not suggesting you have bugs 
in your printer but there may be something down in the innards that 
causing a bad signal to go back to the iMac.  I've also had problems 
when the paper won't feed because of a crimp in the leading edge.

No, I'm not kidding.


On Nov 25, 2003, at 10:43 AM, Chris Foote wrote:

> Please can someone help on this one.
> An iMac on 10.2.8 printer HP 1220C connected via USB.
>
> It was printing fine - then stopped printing never to print again. 
> Says in
> the print utility window that the job has stopped and when you push 
> start it
> jumps back to stopped again! Downloaded the latest printer driver from 
> the
> HP site and installed it. That helped and all was well till we tried to
> print from FreeHand and the stopping occurred again. Now it wont print 
> at
> all again even from Text edit!
>
> Is there some sort of pref that has corrupted and needs to be chucked 
> out?
> Tried the repair disk permissions - did not fix the problem.