Did you try uninstalling and reinstalling?
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"mayfield4" <mayfield4@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Maybe someone can help with this. I rented my apartment to someone who
> messed
> up my printer (HP PSC 1410, used with Windows XP, HP a 220 n). I could see
> that there was something stuck in the printing queue, something they were
> trying to print from the internet. At this point, the printer would not
> print
> anything at all. I attempted cancelling all print jobs some time back, but
> this did not work. The jobs just stayed there and the printer did not
> print.
> Some time passed, and I have returned to the apartment. The stuck print
> job
> is no longer there, but the computer will not communicate with the
> printer. I
> just switched printers (to the HP 1100 Laserjet), and downloaded the
> proper
> printer driver. The computer will not communicate with the printer! The HP
> 1100 prints its own page with all of its statistics (sample printer page),
> but the computer does not seem to be communicating with the printer. The
> first printer mentioned used a USB cable, but the Laserjet uses the
> old-fashioned cable. There seemed to be the proper connection on the back
> of
> the computer, so that it is where it is connected (LPT1---i think). I used
> the Windows XP printing troubleshooting program (HELP), and went through
> the
> whole process. I came to the end of the HELP program and it said that they
> had no solution.
>
> Any thoughts? I hope that this was not unclear or difficult for the
> readers
> of this board. "The computer is not communicating with the printer." I
> wrote
> this too many times but that is the problem.