Help with printer timeout error.

Factual Questions
1

Help. I need to print out some important documents, and my printer isn’t working. I get an error message:

But when I open the printers folder, I don’t even see an icon for my printer. WTH?

Should I just uninstall and re-install?

Thanks.

2

What operating system are you running? Windows 9x would sometimes not show any printers if you just had a spool32 error. Have you rebooted? If you have and the printer icon is still not there, just Add the Printer again.

3

I’ve rebooted. It’s been doing this about a week.

4

i had a very similar problem with my computer. seems there was some sort of problem with the computer being able to talk to the printer. i think the cat peed on the usb port.

5

>> i think the cat peed on the usb port

I’ve heard of a USB mouse but never of a USB cat.

6

LPT1 is a parl port, not a usb port.

Get a new cable, I have to get a new printer cable alot. esp when I used cheap ones.

Also run the printer self test when not connected to the computer.