Printer Garbage

delmuerte · Jun 10, 2003

I've got a HP DESKJET 612C running on windows 2000 professional. Its printing all kinds of garbage ASCII characters and I think it's double feeding paper. I've encountered this problem before when trying to print from a public lan so I'm guessing it is windows 2000. Any help?

Sample printing

aljd ♦N5▬«₧J. t)┼┘§á≡αα96pÇ
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umumore · Jun 10, 2003

check for the virus bugbear virus .its give barbage printing from network pls scan all pcs

Grenage · Jun 11, 2003

Normally our solution to this is to turn off the printer, clear any queued jobs and restart the machine. If it continues uninstalling and reinstalling the printer/drivers has always done the job.

Worth scanning for virii too as said above.

rexxxy · Jun 15, 2003

I have found in the past that if your printer was half way through a job and was then disconnected, then you can expereince the junk being printed.

I had to deal with one the other day at a users desk. All i did was stood there for a couple of minutes feeding the same piece of paper through the printer until it had finished its job!

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