Help !! HP 5600 Printer hopelessly messed up after trying to print a picture.

My stepdaughter emailed a photo of her cat. We tried to print this picture the same way I’ve been able to print anything else on the Internet. FTR, it was sent to my wife’s AOL address.

Instead of printing a picture, the printer spit out several pages, mostly white with some indecipherable blobs and marks near the edge.

And now instead of printing anything at all, when I try to send another document to the printer, it shuts down and starts blinking its lights hysterically.

How can we get this printer back online? And yes, we have rebooted the system since we started having the problem.

Did you unplug (not just turn off) the printer and then plug it back in? Those wildly flashing lights are probably telling you something as well. Did your printer come with any sort of manual that might tell you how to decipher the blinking lights?