My X73 Printer freezes up!!!

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My Lexmark printer will freeze up in the middle of a page. Never the same place but maybe the 1st page or even the 2nd page. I have made contact with Lexmark support but we haven't resolved the problem. This has been going on for some time now. I have uninstalled & reinstalled several times plus system restore and who knows what else. I'm connected via the USB port on my Windows XP home edition.

 

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Headstone wrote:
I have uninstalled & reinstalled several times

But have you done so /properly/?

Suggest you follow Cari's instructions here www.coribright.com/windows,
click the first button and follow the instructions *EXACTLY*. Do *NOT* omit
Step 4.

Is this a new computer or did you upgrade? If the latter, you probably left
the printer connected whilst upgrading and you've corrupted the driver.

 

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<gch@ggi.ca> posted on 4/21/04 in microsoft.public.windowsxp.print_fax
"Lexmark suggested that I change the print processor to WinPrint and
set the default data type to NT EMF 1.008
the world is a much better place. not only are jobs deleted from the
spool but they also go to the printer faster (because not as large)
Perhaps I may have gotten to this on my own but I've simply never had
to deal with print spool issues so I've never investigated processor
and data types - I can't remember the last time I even looked at these
settings. Ah well, more wisdom for me I guess."

I have an X83. I hadn't been able to print for 2 weeks. I opened
printers and faxes, right-clicked on Lexmark X83, properties, clicked
the advanced tab, clicked Print Processor, changed the Print Processor
to WinPrint and tried the default data type NT EMF 1.008: nothing
happened. That was good because nothing froze, no error messages. So
I tried 1.007, and again nothing happened when I tried to print a test
page from the General tab. But oh Boy! When I entered NT EMF 1.006
and hit print test page from the General tab, this old X83 started
printing like nobody's biznuss.

Hope this helps if you're still needing it

On Sun, 25 Apr 2004 11:31:02 -0700, Headstone <headstone@ezaccess.net>
wrote:

>My Lexmark printer will freeze up in the middle of a page. Never the same place but maybe the 1st page or even the 2nd page. I have made contact with Lexmark support but we haven't resolved the problem. This has been going on for some time now. I have uninstalled & reinstalled several times plus system restore and who knows what else. I'm connected via the USB port on my Windows XP home edition.

 

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It's a Lexmark..... in addition to my uninstall instructions, you might want
to take a look at Bruce's additional steps for Lexmarks..... Steps 14
through 16 at
http://members.shaw.ca/bsanders/CleanPrinterDrivers.htm


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Cari
MS-MVP Windows Technologies - Printing/Imaging/Hardware
www.coribright.com
"Headstone" <headstone@ezaccess.net> wrote in message
news:A8B18B67-A4CC-4F77-B0E0-D6912281284F@microsoft.com...
> My Lexmark printer will freeze up in the middle of a page. Never the same
> place but maybe the 1st page or even the 2nd page. I have made contact
> with Lexmark support but we haven't resolved the problem. This has been
> going on for some time now. I have uninstalled & reinstalled several times
> plus system restore and who knows what else. I'm connected via the USB
> port on my Windows XP home edition.

 

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Cari (MS-MVP) wrote:
> It's a Lexmark..... in addition to my uninstall instructions, you
> might want to take a look at Bruce's additional steps for
> Lexmarks..... Steps 14 through 16 at
> http://members.shaw.ca/bsanders/CleanPrinterDrivers.htm

Whoops - I /knew/ there was something I'd missed! )

 

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It's a Lexmark, how can you miss it! Personally I'd like to miss all of
them but.......!
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Cari (MS-MVP Windows Client - Printing, Imaging & Hardware)
www.coribright.com

"Cerridwen" <cerridwen@celticnet.com> wrote in message
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> Whoops - I /knew/ there was something I'd missed! )
>
>

 

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Cari (MS MVP) wrote:
> It's a Lexmark, how can you miss it! Personally I'd like to miss all
> of them but.......!
>
>> Whoops - I /knew/ there was something I'd missed! )

Call it brain fog. My Canon's working fine now, btw. But I've just seen the
9950 - pure red and pure green inks - I'm drooling! 1.5 picolitres.

No, I'm not envious...Do I covet...? Nope.

Now, why are you looking at me like that?!

 

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RE: X73 PRINTER FREEZES UP! I FINALLY RESOLVED IT MY UNINSTALLING IT AND INSTALLING ANOTHER PRINTER, WHICH I MIGHT ADD HAS BEEN WORKING JUST FIND. THANKS TO EVERYONE FOR THE FEED BACK.