Dell 720 not responding

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when i recieved the Dell 720 printer it didnt have a usb cable so I used a
spare HP cable which worked great and everything came out ok. Then one day I
went to the printer to print out some work and it said that there wasn't a
printer pluged in or
> installed. I had originally installed it seen as its plug and play anyway, it
was connected and turned on, all the software is wtill installed so i
decided to
put it in a different usb port but this still didnt do anything.
>
> I tried restarting with the printer not pluged in and then plug it in but that
didnt do anything, so it appears asthough its not responding but when you
unplug
it and plug it in the sound comes up showing that
> windows does know that somthing has been unplugged and plugged in but it still
doesnt do anything

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Alastairg100 wrote:
> When I recieved the Dell 720 printer it didnt have a usb cable so I
> used a spare HP cable which worked great and everything came out ok.
> Then one day I went to the printer to print out some work and it said
> that there wasn't a printer pluged in or installed. I had originally
> installed it seen as its plug and play anyway, it was connected and
> turned on, all the software is wtill installed so I decided to
> put it in a different usb port but this still didnt do anything.
>
> I tried restarting with the printer not plugged in and then plug it
> in but that didnt do anything, so it appears asthough its not
> responding but when you unplug it and plug it in the sound comes
> up showing that windows does know that something has been
> unplugged and plugged in but it still doesnt do anything

And what happens when you manually download and install the latest driver
from the Dell website and/or call Dell technical support?

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