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Says its ready till i try and print

When i click print its says offline-printing and just sits there and doesn't print. I've unistalled it a few times tried pluging it in to different usb ports  tried different usb cords and many other things i don't know what else to do

 

please help

  • Anonymous Dec 03, 2007

    I have a problem with my Dell 720, I unpluged power lines, and repluged



    the lines. printer starts but will not print, checked paper .



    what could be the problem?

  • Anonymous Jan 21, 2008




    My printer was completely erased from my computer; i went through the steps and reinstalled it, tried almost everything, but it won't print, it's like it's not even connected to my computer... I've tried all the USB ports, on the front and on the back of my computer, can't figure out what else could be wrong


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Dell printer drivers try to 'phone home' with Ink usage stats .. even if you select 'no' when asked, they still try to access the Internet ..on install the driver modifies Microsoft Vista Firewall settings to permit this ...

So if you recently installed a non-Microsoft Firewall eg. ZomeAlarm your print driver will be denied access to the web and will refuse to print.

Note that 'deny' is different from 'time-out' ... to test turn off your wireless (or remove the ethernet cable) and ONLY THEN turn off your firewall - if it now starts printing you have your solution (go into Zone Alarm and Enable all Dell & MS print related software access to the Internet).

DO NOT browse the web with your Firewall turned off !!!!

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