HP Laser Jet 1200 Series does not respond to the print command. The dialog box shows "printing" then "deleting" then dissapears. The light on the printer stays green. I use Vista 86. The printer used to work but for whatever reason has stopped responding. I deleted & reinstalled many times

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1. unplug the usb cable from the printer and go to your printer list. 2. delete the installed printer. 3. once the printer is deleted from your list, plug the usb printer cable back in 4. the printer should reinstall itself and the print request should be gone

I'm going to assume you're using XP. I've not seen this problem yet with Vista or Windows 7, which handle the print queue differently. Sometimes the print queue gets corrupted, and a job gets "stuck" and you can't delete it. You can get rid of it this way:

1. Click "Start" on the task bar, then "Run...".
2. In the "Run" dialog box, type "cmd" (without the quotes) and enter.
3. Enter the following commands as shown in the cmd.exe window that opens:

• net stop spooler
• del %systemroot%\system32\spool\printers\*.shd
• del %systemroot%\system32\spool\printers\*.spl
• net start spooler
• exit

These steps delete the corrupted print queue, so the ghost print job will be gone. (In the commands above, "%systemroot%" is an environment variable that is filled in for you by Windows. Type it as shown.)

Microsoft has a knowledge base article which suggests using notepad to put these steps into a command file, a text file with a ".cmd" extension. Then you can just type the filename in the Run... dialog box and do less typing. This is handy if you find you need to clear the queue this way more than once in a while.

Reinstall printer drivers and take your toners out,and put it back in,try it.

To reverse an image for iron-on transfers
1. On the File menu in your software application, click Print.
2. Make sure the product is the selected printer.
3. Click the button that opens the Properties dialog box.
Depending on your software application, this button might be called Properties,
Options, Printer Setup, Printer, or Preferences.
4. Click the Features tab.
5. In the Paper Type drop-down list, click More, and then select HP Iron-on Transfer
from the list.
6. If the selected size is not what you want, click an appropriate size in the Size list.
7. Click the Advanced tab.
8. In the Features area, select the Mirror Image checkbox.
9. Click OK, and then click Print or OK in the Print dialog box.
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Apparently there is a bug that HP is not fixing. Following is not a solution, only HP can solve this problem but a "workaround" for the time being, allowing you to print the file as image. Keep in mind that the printing will take longer time, because the file is output as bitmap, and that this way of printing it's not good enough for color proofing of any sort.

Check in the specific software Print dialog window, if you can print the file as image. Sometimes the controls are in the advanced options. In Acrobat, check the box for Discolored Background Correction in the PostScript tab of the Print dialog window, and if that doesn't help, check Print as Image check box.

The problem is usually caused by printing a PDF file with fonts/page size/ page formating errors which will cause the printer to display the 49.3048 error. The only way to use the printer is to POR or recycle the power and delete the print job from the server or spooling device and cancel it on the printer before the offending command is issued to the printer again. You can try updating the firmware to the latest version 46.140.5 from the HP website. MIke L.

Hello sir ; Before you hit print on your computer, you better set up all the informationin the printer propriety that including continuiness printing.

If you are using one printer in the same office, i mean if all the other employers also using it than this problem arises. Because if many employers using it than printer will always print in order of the print commands given. It works as prints given in order by time. If this is not the case than you can try to delete old print commands by switching the printer off and than deleting. I think this must help you.

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You write "type the above line at command prompt". I dont't know Where exactly to write? Can you tell me!