All of a sudden my printer has started to print blank pages when I send a print job to it. I’m on Mac OS 9, with a Brother printer, using Word. It spits out the right number of pages for the job - just blank.
Anyone have any bright ideas?
I’d guess you’re either out of ink, or the print head nozzles are clogged. Change the ink carts and/or run the head cleaning routine a couple times.
Or as my friend would say…your printer is bulemic.
No, that’s not it. I tried a simple test page (a short one-page Word document) and it printed that one. It won’t print a document that’s several pages long and with a lot of formatting on it.
Try upgrading your printer driver, then. Go to the manufacturer’s website and download the latest version for your OS. You may need (and this is probably a good thing to do anyway) to uninstall the printer first, then reinstall it using the new driver.
I had this problem a while back with my Canon BJC. I tried replacing the cartriges, reinstalling the drivers and cleaned the printing head numerous times, but nothing worked.
So I took it to Canon to have it fixed. I’m not quite sure of the specifics. They said that there was a problem with the ** absorber ** and that it needed to be replaced. They also pointed out that the ink was leaking from the bottom of the printer (I didn’t realise this though :smack:).
It didn’t cost much to fix and it’s working fine now. I suggest you take it your local customer service center to see what the problem is.
What kind of printer is this?
Did you try another cable or reinstall Word?
It’s printing again! I can make copies of my magnum opus (in progress)!
As suggested by Q.E.D. I downloaded the printer driver and reinstalled, and also downloaded a patch for Word that specifically is aimed at file corruption caused by large use of tables in documents.
Thanks, everyone, for the suggestions.