Paper blank Haven't used in a while. Installed software on new laptop, when I print it seems to respond, however the paper is blank. Could my cartridges be dried out?

Do you mean your Epson Printer Printing blank pages? The Epson printer printing blank pages due to wrong paper size, outdated printer driver, Empty ink cartridge, dirty print head, improperly installed ink cartridge, and more.

Follow the steps to fix the Epson printer printing blank page issue:

·Restart the printer
·Fill the empty ink cartridge and reinstall the new ink cartridge
·Update printer drivers. If you have done all the above steps but still the printer printing blank pages.

Then follow more steps to fix the Epson printer prints blank pages issue.

In most cases the printer driver software can have errors while being in use or is shut down. So to reset remove your printer from the PC and uninstall the printer software. Now reinstall the printer software and then connect the Printer to be detected as a new hardware as it will be installed.

Use the software that was installed when you installed your printer to clean your print heads.

Was the green paper the type kids use in school. When my kids were little we called it contruction paper. If this is the case, your printer is smart enough to know that this paper is thicker than normal. It's responding as it should. Next time you want to print on this type of paper - select this in your printer's software control panel.

I uninstalled the printer and reinstalled the software (from the beginning) and it worked. I did not install the software for including the CD/DVD printing.

Try to print a self test page from the printer directly using the below steps....

1. Make sure the printer is loaded with plain, white paper. Remove any special or colored paper.
2. Press Setup on the front panel of the product.
3. Press 1 , to select Print Report , then 5 , to select Self Test .After you have the report printed, check for 4 horizontal color bars in that report, the first color should be the the black one, if the black one is missing, issue seems to be with black cartridge, that may be the reason the printer spits out blank paper, try to replace the black cartridge and then copy if it copies or not.

To start ensure that is not a software problem.
Go to Control Panel >> Installed Printers. Remove the printer. Install the printer again using the software disk or downloading the driver software from Brother website.
If that does not fix the problem, and the printer prints blank sheets, then it is usually a clogged printhead.
The printheads can be cleaned removing the ink carriage and soaking it in isopropyl alcohol overnight. If that does not work, then the printhead must be replaced.
Regards

check that there are drivers installed for the printers

factory restore

I have had a similar problem to this: I have had a BJC 80 for nearly 5 years and carried it around with my laptop using Win 98 and a par - par cable. It worked beautifully and successfully - so much so that when i saw a number of ink tanks going at very cheap volume prices in PC World i picked up a lot of them. Changing to an XP meant that i had to keep on using the par to par cable via a docking station but prevented my use of it with my new laptop - so when i brought it out of retirement it gave the blank printing problems yoiu described. By checking some error messages that it expected a black cartridge (which is what was installed) i found that inthe setup the software indicated it defaulted to colour cartridges. By changing this on the computer, it still printed blank pages but by changing the cartridge to colour it sprang into life when the set up asked for colour. I tried 2 other print heads which i had (3-4 years old) but still blank paper when printing to a black cartridge. I am now awaiting a new black print head carrier to see if it makes a difference. When trying with my laptop using XP and a par - usb cable it does not work at all. I have removed the sware driver for the Canon 80 and manually installed the one for the Canon 85 but no luck in printing to par - usb at this time

S Ranson