Printer feeds in a page and starts to print. Then the power and resume lights start to flash. Press the resume buttom and the paper ejects with only the top few lines printed. Tried on different computers - same result. Checked the printer and cannot see any mechanical problems. Ink cartridges are okay. Inside of printer is clean. Paper does not appear to be jamming - it ejects without problems. I've been to the HP web site and checked all the things they suggest but I can't find this particular problem described.
Thanks in advance.
Comment by graham77, posted on Aug 01, 2006
Unclejed I cleaned the timing strip as you suggested and the printer now works perfectly. Thanks heaps, you are a genius. Graham
change cartridge with walgreen refill and it wirk for about ten pages however the color on some printing document the gray area printed in blue so i ran cartridge test thedn tried to print adocument and the colors for text were visable like cascade on each word. then document got stuck second green light started blinking and i had to forn feed the document out. turn off power and open cartridge door and cartridge did not move printer rollers move and clikcking sound and then the form light and power light start blinking. i was trying to just remove the cartridge but it wont move and powering off just create the same problem noise and the both light flash no printing at all and can not remove cartridge HWLP
Comment by Guest, posted on Feb 15, 2008
Our printer prints the top few line then pauses and in a few seconds prints the rest of the receipt.
check the print driver in control panel...... if the correct driver for the printer is not installed, or corrupted, it can send invalid instructions to the printer, but let me check....... ahah! found it..... it's a carriage stall (not the horse kind :-') ) but the print head carriage is jamming for some reason, either there is some grit on the carriage bar, or a missing tooth in the drive belt, or the timing strip is dirty..... the easiest to fix yourself would be to clean the timing strip. the timing strip is a clear plastic tape usually behind or below the carriage bar. it looks like it has a grey horizontal stripe across it (actually it is many tiny vertical black stripes that provide the printer with motion and dot timing information). carefully with a window cleaner soaked paper towel, and without too much pressure (that would unhook one of the ends of the strip)wipe the strip clean on both front and back.
also if the printer happens to be in an unlocked condition (you can do this by removing power during the head positioning cycle), try moving the printhead at a moderate speed back and forth along the carriage bar and see if there's anywhere where it binds up or you feel more than normal resistance, the printer needs repair, but at least you can tell the technician where to start looking....
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