I have an HP Photosmart C4795 printer that I have had for about 5 years. Yesterday while I was printing, I heard a quick succession of loud banging noises that sounded as if two parts inside the printer were hitting eachother, but other than that everything printed normally. Today when I turned it on, it started taking paper as if it were going to print something, even though I hadn't tried to print anything yet. It didnt print anything on this paper, it just fed it through about half-way and then stopped, with the paper sticking out of it. Everything else looked normal. Nothing on the screen indicated what the printer was doing. When I pulled the paper out and tried to print, the screen indicated that it was printing, but it just did the same thing, feeding the paper half-way with nothing on it and stopping. It now does this every time I turn it on and does not print or copy anything. Help!!!!!!!
whyprinter 0 Newbie Poster
rubberman 1,355 Nearly a Posting Virtuoso Featured Poster
Time for a new printer? 5 years is an antique in internet time. I think my last HP printer lasted about 5 years as well before it self-destructed.
XP78USER 30 Posting Whiz in Training
Our school gets that too
cgeier 187 Junior Poster
Have you rebooted both the computer (that's connected to the printer and the one printing to the printer) and the printer? Btw, it isn't a good idea to pull paper from the printer when it's turned on.
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