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Bizarre printer behaviour!

Postby Woodbloke » 19 Jan 2020, 17:20

We bought a HP Envy 5032 printer last year which a couple of weeks ago suddenly refused to print properly, leaving three or four clear lines 'twixt each line of text (and I checked the print settings on the doc before hitting 'print'.) I struggled for almost a whole day to get the thing to print properly; I reinstalled all the software, downloaded the latest driver settings from t'interweb, changed the black cartridge, 'phoned Apple in desperation (stoney ground) all do no avail...bloody thing was still behaving stupidly :twisted: :twisted: .

I said to SWIMBO that somat's gone AWOL with it and we need to get a new one. She was happy with that but yesterday she decided to have one last go at printing something and to her and my amazement, it was printing correctly.

I have no idea why it started to behave itself, but it appears to be working fine, so we're both happy bunnies :D
I should say that the computer is turned 'off' every night so maybe the printer needed a bit of quiet time to get it's act together? - Rob
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Re: Bizarre printer behaviour!

Postby DaveL » 19 Jan 2020, 18:43

Maybe it heard the threat of buying a new one to replace it.
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Re: Bizarre printer behaviour!

Postby RogerS » 19 Jan 2020, 18:45

Getting confused as to 'paper type' ?
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Re: Bizarre printer behaviour!

Postby 9fingers » 19 Jan 2020, 21:59

I have an HP printer that if it gets it's knickers in a twist will go off to the interweb and fire up an analytical programme and usually sorts itself out.
Usually power cycling sorts it. It is normally powered up 24/7 and wireless connected on the home network but sleeps most of the time waking up to see if there is any work to do every few mins.

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Re: Bizarre printer behaviour!

Postby MY63 » 19 Jan 2020, 23:00

Rob if you don't mind me asking why were you phoning Apple about an H P printer ?
The first rule of tech support is after three "have you tried turning it off and on again" :lol: well someone had to say it.

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Re: Bizarre printer behaviour!

Postby Woodbloke » 20 Jan 2020, 09:27

9fingers wrote:I have an HP printer that if it gets it's knickers in a twist will go off to the interweb and fire up an analytical programme and usually sorts itself out.
Usually power cycling sorts it. It is normally powered up 24/7 and wireless connected on the home network but sleeps most of the time waking up to see if there is any work to do every few mins.

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Nope, this one is connected by an 'old skool' cable to the iMac and as I mentioned, the whole system gets shut down at night, so maybe it was having some quiet time to contemplate it's navel :D

MY63 wrote:Rob if you don't mind me asking why were you phoning Apple about an H P printer ?


Really just to check that I wasn't doing anything stupid with the 'puter (it has been known :D ) - Rob
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