All of a sudden when I go to print on the HP LaserJet 4000 it says processing. Then it says Data Received. Then it just does nothing but flash Data Received. If I hit the go button. It prints out one page of weird fonts.
If I reinstall the printer it doesn’t help. The only way I can get it to work is to hook up another computer, print one sheet off of it, then shut that one down a rehook up my computer. Boom – the printer works fine.
Any ideas what is happening.
Are you using the same cable? Cause that’s the first thing I would change.
Try using HP’s trouble shooter on the web.
I’m going to guess since it’s a laser printer using toner, that the toner is low. You move the toner around when connecting to a different computer. The printer thinks the toner situation is ok. You hook it up to the original computer and the toner is still moved around. You can print for a while again.
The copier at work can be restarted for about two days, when the fill toner light comes on. Shut down, move around the toner, restart. Print what you needed.
Like I said, use the trouble shooting web pages at HP or try the printers help files on you computer.
Funny thing is after a week of this happening to my printer, which is a local printer, today I come in and the Catering Printer, a network printer, is doing the same thing.
The cable seems to be OK
It isn’t the toner as the printer is NEVER touched and yet when I dehook my printer and rehook another computer to it then print then rehoom my computer back it works.
The only way I got the network printer was to delete it and reinstall the printer via the network THREE times.
I’ve tried looking on the web but I can’t find anything.
It it weird as you hit print and it says job processing but istead of doing the job it then waits, says data received and sits there for a while.
There is nothig in the manual. It looks like the printer is waiting or like when you tell it to manual feed it waits for a piece of paper in the tray. (no I tried that it doesn’t work)