HP Deskjet printers keep printing garbage help?!

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Hey guys Im sure someone here is using an HP Deskjet printer of some sort.
Ive got two desk jets and both give me the same problem and yet they are on to seperate computers.
Ive got one of the model number but the other one I cant get untill I get back home.
The one I am having a problem right now is with a HP Deskjet 842c.
This is connected to a Dell Laptop in a docking station running Windows XP Pro. When I try to print documents that are one page long its perfect. If I print more than one page it prints the last page first then stops and give the "error" light. Well if you turn it off then back on itll finish up its print job then progresses to spit out as much paper as it can feed and itll print a single line of random characters (hearts,blocks etc etc) untill you turn it off again. Now I cant for the life of me figure this out my home printer and now my work printer is doing it as well.
Anyone have any tips?
 
Unplug the printer, wait 2 minutes, plug it back in. (Not the power button)

If it keeps happening, unplug printer from computer, uninstall the printer from Windows, reboot the computer, reinstall the printer.


If you are using the parallel connector, try using the USB instead.

 
zoobaby said:
Unplug the printer, wait 2 minutes, plug it back in. (Not the power button)

If it keeps happening, unplug printer from computer, uninstall the printer from Windows, reboot the computer, reinstall the printer.


If you are using the parallel connector, try using the USB instead.

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Ive tried to unplug it/plug back in and uninstall/reinstall it simply wont stop doing it.
its weird on the PC at the house itll behave after a fresh install of windows for a short amount of time..then boom all over again.
hell i dont even have anything in the print que once my documents is printed and itll still do it.
 
A bad printer driver maybe or it is the cable connected from printer to computer is bad. Some deskjets will use the same printer driver on some models causing a conflict with the printer.
 
I still have a 600c in storage that does that, just gave up and replaced it. I think it's a hardware issue because up until a year or two ago it worked just fine and no amount of software tinkering helped, I also had it on a few different systems over the years.
 
NatakuARN said:
I still have a 600c in storage that does that, just gave up and replaced it. I think it's a hardware issue because up until a year or two ago it worked just fine and no amount of software tinkering helped, I also had it on a few different systems over the years.
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im beginning to think its hardware as well. but I dont wanna give up just yet...I have OCD about things like this at times LOL
 
Delete drivers, then reinstall drivers.....That works with printers printing a bunch of jumbled characters/garbage..
 
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