Why has my printer stopped printing????

Why isn't my printer printing? I just installed new ink about a month ago and printing has worked fine until my 1 year old son pulled the power cord out from the back of the socket. So I plug it back in and try to print and nothing happens. Then I go to the print job viewer and everything that is going to be printed is in queued. What is wrong? I have time sensitie docments that must be printed. Any help is greatly appreciated.

http://img39.exs.cx/img39/7553/snapshot318.jpg

It would help us to know what kind of printer it is and whether it has power now.

My first guess is that the power cord is not connected properly and my second that the cord has been damaged.

Sorry bout that, I was in a rush to get him to the doctors to get his shots on time. It is an HP Deskjet5550 and it has power now. All the leds work properly and everything seems to be well but it just will not print. I have not any idea why this is happening. Why? In my reply above, there is a screenshot of the printer job viewer that shows I still have a job pending. Any help is greatly appreciated...

A stab in the dark: maybe that print job is hung in the queue because the printer died. Can you restart the queue? Failing that, can you clear the queue and rerun the program that created the print job?

Finally it occurs to me: if this were my problem, the first thing I would do is check that the paper is loaded properly so it can feed.

All that stuff is fine, i'm trying to print in OOo. The paper is loaded fine, I can't restart the queue so I just clear the reaming jobs so that there is none in queue and restarted the computer but even that didn't work. The printer is only 1.5 years old and has not undergone much use other than a few print jobs here and there.

At this point all I can suggest is substitution: see if your computer can print to a different printer or a different computer can print to your printer.

I have a gut feeling that this is a software problem, not hardware, but I can't prove it either way & (substitution aside) I'm out of ideas. Sorry.

These are my log entries. Can anyone help me with this problem with this info?


1st) 11:43:46 (kernal message) usb 2-1: USB disconnect, address 6 (error one image link)
2nd) (same time kernal message) drivers/usb/class/usblp.c: usblp0: removed (error 2 image link)
3rd) (3 min later kernal message) usb 2-1: new full speed USB device using address 7 (img 3)
4th) same time as last kernal message) drivers/usb/class/usblp.c: usblp0: USB Bidirectional printer dev 7 if 0 alt 0 proto 2 vid 0x03F0 pid 0x6004



These are screen shots of the error windows (they are very readable) can someone make any sense of this stuff? It looks like the 2nd error message says that the printer driver has been removed. Is that so?
http://img39.exs.cx/img39/358/1sterror.jpg
http://img39.exs.cx/img39/7185/2nderror.jpg
http://img39.exs.cx/img39/1743/3rderror.jpg
http://img39.exs.cx/img39/5749/4therror.jpg

Anyone? Jamuz?

I had a major prob with my printer yesterday similar to yours I just deleted the driver and then re-installed it. Sounds drastic but it worked. My printer went bung cause I fiddled with some setting that I can't remember what it was (that stuffed it up well) but I imagine this aproch would fix quite a few printer stuff ups. I think you will lose the print job you were trying to print though. Just a sugestion hope it helps.

How do you delete and reinstall the printer drivers? Where are they located?

I reinstalled the driver, but now when I try to print it says the hpdeskjet 5550 status is: not ready

Why is this?

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I followed these intructions here... http://hpinkjet.sourceforge.net/install.php#mandrake

Thats great!

I was asleep sorry couldn't help you.

Congratulations!
and thanks for the link.

Originally Posted by Ausar Why isn't my printer printing? I just installed new ink about a month ago and printing has worked fine until my 1 year old son pulled the power cord out from the back of the socket. So I plug it back in and try to print and nothing happens. Then I go to the print job viewer and everything that is going to be printed is in queued. What is wrong? I have time sensitie docments that must be printed. Any help is greatly appreciated. http://img39.exs.cx/img39/7553/snapshot318.jpg

Hi
I think I have the same problem I have a dual boot machine, Suse 10.0 and Windows 98 connected to an Epson Stylus C20ux.

I leave the printer on all the time, but when I went away on holiday the power was interrupted. I turned my computer on and the first time I tried to print, I realised the printer was off. I switched it on, but have been unable to print. However, it prints fine in Windows and the jobs are been queued.

Can you be more specific about how you reinstalled the drivers. When I installed Suse 10.0 it just found the printer I didn't have to install any drivers. I have just noticed the link, but it is for HP and I'm using an Epson?

I would be really grateful for help on this.
Thank you.