USB Printer Problem in XP - test page works, not much else Recycler 12/27/2008 2:35:01 PM I have a strange problem with XP printing. Printer was working properly at one time but now cannot print from Office, Notepad, Wordpad. I tried loading a different word processor, also cannot print. Printing is successful from "Print Test Page" AND from web browser, but cannot print from Office et al. Paper/pages advance, but no text. Cartridges have ink. USB printer (HP 812C), no network. Any ideas?

Re: USB Printer Problem in XP - test page works, not much else "Cari \(MS-MVP\)" <newsgroups[ at ]coribright.com> 12/28/2008 1:58:23 AM Are you using File, Print from the toolbar or simply clicking on the printer icon? Is this a blank document you started with, or a previously edited/saved one? If it's a previous save, try creating a document from scratch, then saving it and using File, Print, make sure you are chosing the correcty printer to print to. I would also suggest a complete uninstall and reinstall in case of corrupted printer drivers, using: http://www.coribright.com/windows/Article_One.htm Remember not to miss out Step 4, or all you will do is install the old, and possibly corrupted drivers. -- Cari (MS-MVP) Printing & Imaging www.coribright.com/windows "Recycler" <Recycler[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:742A1FA1-B567-4291-8712-DDDEEF0FE888[ at ]microsoft.com... [Quoted Text] >I have a strange problem with XP printing. Printer was working properly at > one time but now cannot print from Office, Notepad, Wordpad. I tried > loading > a different word processor, also cannot print. > > Printing is successful from "Print Test Page" AND from web browser, but > cannot print from Office et al. Paper/pages advance, but no text. > Cartridges have ink. USB printer (HP 812C), no network. > > Any ideas?

Re: USB Printer Problem in XP - test page works, not much else Ed <edfox[ at ]fox-engineering.com> 12/28/2008 2:36:15 PM Thanks Carl for your response. Have tried printing from a variety of positions. Ctl-P, File/Print, Print Icon. All fail to actually print the text...saved and created...but in all cases advances the paper in the printer. Print Preview shows correctly. Failure to print from Notepad, Wordpad, Word, and I even installed Abiword...all same problem. Going to Printers and Faxes...selecting properties for the particular printer, and printing the Test Page works! So does printing from Mozilla Firefox and Mozilla Thunderbird! Will try the Article One suggestion...note that the printer driver is local to Windows XP - the HP 812C printer. No new drivers available from HP...they say just install the Windows XP version. ED Cari (MS-MVP) wrote: [Quoted Text] > Are you using File, Print from the toolbar or simply clicking on the > printer icon? Is this a blank document you started with, or a > previously edited/saved one? If it's a previous save, try creating a > document from scratch, then saving it and using File, Print, make sure > you are chosing the correcty printer to print to. > > I would also suggest a complete uninstall and reinstall in case of > corrupted printer drivers, using: > http://www.coribright.com/windows/Article_One.htm > > Remember not to miss out Step 4, or all you will do is install the old, > and possibly corrupted drivers.

Re: USB Printer Problem in XP - test page works, not much else Ed <edfox[ at ]fox-engineering.com> 12/29/2008 9:41:42 PM Carl, Tried your suggestions...uninstalled the printer and drivers per Coribright Article One, restarted the computer, reinstalled the printer, successfully printed the Printer Test Page, but still could not print from any wordpad, etc. According to HP, the drivers in XP are current and they don't offer any others. Like before, printing did work from browser and Adobe Reader printing a PDF file. ED Cari (MS-MVP) wrote: [Quoted Text] > Are you using File, Print from the toolbar or simply clicking on the > printer icon? Is this a blank document you started with, or a > previously edited/saved one? If it's a previous save, try creating a > document from scratch, then saving it and using File, Print, make sure > you are chosing the correcty printer to print to. > > I would also suggest a complete uninstall and reinstall in case of > corrupted printer drivers, using: > http://www.coribright.com/windows/Article_One.htm > > Remember not to miss out Step 4, or all you will do is install the old, > and possibly corrupted drivers.