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I've got a Dell 3100cn that refuses to print. It was working perfectly up until a couple days ago.
I checked my router settings and the reserved IP matches the IP on the printer. I've tried deleting and re-adding the printer into the OS X print setup. Everytime I click print it sends the job to the print queue and it just sits there doing nothing. Ink levels are all high. Tried shutting off the printer and the router. Haven't rebooted the computer though.
Any ideas? I am ready to lose it here. Wasted the whole day on this and I need to print invoices. :-(
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stretching for options... do you have the printer 'stopped' in the print manager?
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Nope. Printing is not stopped. But it does say "No Job Printing" even if there are items in the queue.
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Bypass the router and plug printer in directly to your Mac.
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Sometimes it's the simpliest things.
I restarted the computer and it works again. Son of a bi...
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karsen- had that happen to me with an Epson R200 a month ago. same solution- 30 minutes of hair pulling out, f* this, shut down. went back to the mac an hour later, started up, and whoosh- everything in the queue came out of the printer.
Just one of those weird gremlin things.
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karsen Wrote:
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> Haven't rebooted the computer though.
> Any ideas? I am ready to lose it here. Wasted the
> whole day on this and I need to print invoices.
> :-(
Man that is some faith in OSX. Have you ever called ANY type of PC/Windows tech support? The first thing they have you do is power cycle everything. It would have been my first suggestion. Quantum mechanics guarantees that all microprocessors will have errors eventually.
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Baby Tats Wrote:
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> Man that is some faith in OSX. Have you ever
> called ANY type of PC/Windows tech support? The
> first thing they have you do is power cycle
> everything. It would have been my first
> suggestion. Quantum mechanics guarantees that all
> microprocessors will have errors eventually.
Yeah I know. I'm just so used to things working and never having to reboot. I actually figured it was some sort of cable disconnect or issue with my often flakey router. Now I know, and knowing is half the battle!
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why is it that people have forgotten that when all else fails, power down the equipment?
Some here seem terrified at the thought of closing out all the apps they have running and re-booting X.
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Racer X, I think its just that X runs great for long periods of time without a reboot. Thats my excuse and Im sticking to it.
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