Printer printing endless code

MNicolazzo · ‎07-27-2020

Hello,

At least once out of every 10 times I print my printer will not print the item I sent to the printer, but will instead print out endless- mostly blank- pages with approximately 3 lines (more or less on each page) of code (looks like windings), This is getting very frustrating and it is wasting a lot of paper and ink. I have reinstalled the drivers before and it does not seem to solve the problem.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Thank You,

Mike

Repairatrooper · ‎07-27-2020

Is this USB or network connection. This error is caused by a corrupt print job caused by either a bad cable, wrong driver or just simply a print job that is bad. Also common if this is a new printer and your old printer was on the same iP address and a job is getting sent to the old driver.

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MNicolazzo · ‎08-18-2020

Thank you for your response. It is a USB hookup, so I figured the easiest solution would be to try a new cable. This did not work, however. The printer is new and I think you must be correct that the old printer may have been on the same IP address. If you could explain how to rectify this situation, I would really appreciate it.

Thank You,

Mike

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