Printer Garbage

[delmuerte]

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
─Ä96«πòè

 

[umumore]

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

 

[Grenage]

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]

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!