When I print things out, my printer goes through the usual motions, however, the pages are coming out with no printing on the page (blank pages). The ink cartridges are fine. Any ideas? Abner
Abner, What kind of printer? Make and model? Have you printed (or tried to print) a test page directly from the printer? not using your computer.
Another answering a question with a question What is the model # of your printer? Often in the printer manual (which you can likely download from the manufacturer's site) they will have a list of frequently asked questions. For example, for my printer (a Brother MFC-885CW) the manual recommends cleaning the print heads if the printer is printing blank pages ... you'd have to check the manual for your own printer to find out how to do that.
Have you removed the printer drivers adn reinstalled them? That seems to fix a lot of issues if printers just stop working for unknown reasons.
I'm assuming its an inkjet printer, since you say cartridges (multiple). If you've had the printer for a while, the nozzles may be clogged.. First print a test page from the printer itself (usually a button combo on the printer.) If it comes out fine, its probably a printer driver issue. If it comes out blank or spotty, it's probably clogged nozzles. I have a canon color printer that I have to do this with if I don't use it for a while, before it starts printing again. An easy way to remedy this is: take the cartridges out. Take a q-tip with rubbing alcohol and gently clean the area where the cartridges sit. The q-tip's end is probably very colorful now. You may have to do this a few times (with multiple q-tips) until you don't see any extra ink on the end of the q-tip. You only need a little rubbing alcohol when you do this, you don't have to drench the q-tip. Replace the cartridges. Run another test page. If its better but still spotty, repeat. If its not better, it may be a bigger problem. Also, you should have a program that came with the printer that will clear the nozzles, run that as well at this point, because that can help once the dried ink is loosened by the alcohol. Good luck!
Yes, I see a very faint black print, but it is almost non existant. I have a brother MFC-3240C. Abner
Thanks everybody! I cleaned everything out and made the printer/fax manually clean everything according to the instructions Sentinel provided from the Brother FAQ section. Happy 2010!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Abner
I am also going to try this now....! Will share my experience after trying it ,....!! Hope it will work now... Well, Thank you for the nice information shared with us.
You know appliances have greatly reduced previous problems and created new ones. I do not want to add anything more to what have been said. Hopefully your problem will be solved.