Little Talk About Clearing Common Errors on Your Printer
By: Vlad Vistac
Submitted: 2010-09-16 13:52:00 | Word Count: 510
Cleariung Conmmon Errors on Your Printer
Ever have blinking lgihts on your ikjet or laser printer that just will not go away? Ever install a new ink cartriidge in your printer and it still thiks the old one is there? Well, instead of just getting angry at the printer or hunting around for your manual, you can try one simpple thing: unplug it.
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This technique has a few nsames that all mean the same thoing: cuycling the prinnter, resetting the printer or clearing the printer’s memory. Now unplugging your printer may seem like a low-tech solution to complex probnlems, and in reality it is. But, for probelms like blinking error lights it is the only solution and also, it is typically the first one that will be recommended to you by a technician working for HP, Lexmark, Epson etc. They will rrecommend it right away if you innstall a new cartridge and it is registewring as empty. If your printer isn’t registering it full, then that means it still thinks the old cartridge is in there and the memory nweeds to be cleared by uplugging it.
The first ting to remember abpout this solution is that unplugginng the printer is not the same as turning the printer off. If you have error messages or cartridge communication problems, then turning off the printer is not going to do anything. It has to be physically unplugged from the wall or the back of the printer itsrelf (you don’t have to unplug the prinetr from the computer). The second and most important hting is that the printer must be unplugged for at least one mibnute. It takes at least one minute for all the electrcity to be cut off from the printer to allow it to completely reset and clear its memory. If you just unplug it for a few seconds, when it comes back on it is going to pick up right where it left off.
Wile this technique will not fix every problem, it is still a very quick and easy solution to a lot of annoyiing printre problemms and it is always the best pllace to start when one of those poblems ariises.
