Printer - "Canceling": Yes, another printer problem. I wanted to print a page, so I pressed Ctrl-P, selected the Epson, and hit Enter. On the printer LCD: "Canceling." Then it made...

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

Yes, another printer problem. I wanted to print a page, so I pressed Ctrl-P, selected the Epson, and hit Enter.

On the printer LCD: "Canceling." Then it made some printer noises and displayed, "Canceled." This happened three times. I turned it off and on and tried again. "Printing." It pushed out a blank page and displayed "Canceled." I had to laugh.

Fortunately, I happen to have a pen, so I'll have to go old school.

By the way, "Canceled" is one of those words that can be spelled two ways, "canceled," or "cancelled."

EDITED: Wow! This guy is persistent! My Epson printer has been "cancelling" a print for over 14 hours now. What can I do to make it stop so I can print other things again?

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

jerryc41 wrote:

Yes, another printer problem. I wanted to print a... (show quote)

I had that problem once or twice (Windows)... Took repetitive attempts to empty the print spooler. Not sure why it got stuck. The spooler likes to print in order, so things get backed up behind the stuck print job. I just go into the spooler and keep deleting it. It is annoying.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

Longshadow wrote:

I had that problem once or twice (Windows)... Took repetitive attempts to empty the print spooler. Not sure why it got stuck. The spooler likes to print in order, so things get backed up behind the stuck print job. I just go into the spooler and keep deleting it. It is annoying.

I deleted everything in the spooler.

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

jerryc41 wrote:

I deleted everything in the spooler.

burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

jerryc41 wrote:

Yes, another printer problem. I wanted to print a... (show quote)

It sounds like there is something corrupt in your operating system. If you have another computer, try printing to both the Epson and your other printer that doesn't work double sided, and see what happens. If the printers work normally, then the problem is in your computer. Either the print queue is not working, or the driver is not working correctly.

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

burkphoto wrote:

It sounds like there is something corrupt in your operating system. If you have another computer, try printing to both the Epson and your other printer that doesn't work double sided, and see what happens. If the printers work normally, then the problem is in your computer. Either the print queue is not working, or the driver is not working correctly.

It's an odd anomaly. Very rare occurrence on my system. Once or twice in the past year.
Once the anomaly is removed, everything works fine for MONTHS.

kvanhook Loc: Oriental, NC

My printer refused to cooperate a while back. After many attempts to solve the problem I unplugged it's ass. When I plugged it back in it had learned that I can and will whip it into submission. Without power, it forgot whatever it was that had it behaving badly.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

kvanhook wrote:

My printer refused to cooperate a while back. After many attempts to solve the problem I unplugged it's ass. When I plugged it back in it had learned that I can and will whip it into submission. Without power, it forgot whatever it was that had it behaving badly.

I left it unplugged for half an hour. "Printing" "Canceling." And it gave me a sheet of blank paper.

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

jerryc41 wrote:

I left it unplugged for half an hour. "Printing" "Canceling." And it gave me a sheet of blank paper.

To prove it cancelled the print job?

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

Longshadow wrote:

To prove it cancelled the print job?

Most likely. "See? I didn't print anything at all. Saving ink for you!"

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

jerryc41 wrote:

Most likely. "See? I didn't print anything at all. Saving ink for you!"

burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

kvanhook wrote:

My printer refused to cooperate a while back. After many attempts to solve the problem I unplugged it's ass. When I plugged it back in it had learned that I can and will whip it into submission. Without power, it forgot whatever it was that had it behaving badly.

The #1 solution any good help desk "phone answerer" uses is, "Sometimes shutting down EVERYTHING and unplugging it all for a while will let it forget its bad habits. Have you tried that?"

I can't tell you how many issues I've solved with that approach. I've lost count!

About twice a month, I do that to our cable modem and router. It almost always results in better speed and stability. It assigns new local IP addresses to all the devices on the network, and usually switches channels on the WiFi connections, as well. That purges lots of caches and reloads routines from firmware into RAM that may have been corrupted by power line instabilities.

EdJ0307 Loc: out west someplace

I purchased a Xerox All-in-one color laser printer about five or six years ago. I got it from Costco when they were having a sale on it, normally about $400 but marked down to around $150. This has been the best printer I have ever had. Ever. No problems with it in all that time. Can't say I haven't had any problems with the H-P printers I've had or the Canon Pro 100 I currently have. The Xerox even does a fairly decent job of printing color photographs.

BTW, I checked on this printer on-line and found a used one at Amazon.com. However, their printer is $685. Glad I bought the one I have when I did.

Carl1024 Loc: Kaneohe, HI 96744

jerryc41 wrote:

Yes, another printer problem. I wanted to print a... (show quote)

Epson is 4 the birds, try Brothers?

TheShoe Loc: Lacey, WA

jerryc41 wrote:

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By the way, "Canceled" is one of those words that can be spelled two ways, "canceled," or "cancelled."

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That is frequently an American vs. British thing. If you look up the word in Webster and OED, the preferred style in Webster will be one l; the OED, two. Both will show both styles as acceptable.