My HP 6MP won't talk to me.

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I have a HP 6MP I have been used for years. Recently I changed the
toner cartridge and currently I have it connected to two computers,
one of them with Windows and the other one with Linux. The printer is
not "shared": I jsut change it from one to the other through a manual
switch.

The printer was working fine until some days ago. Now when I turn it
on all the status lights are ok, but when the computer sends a
document to print the document just goes straigh through the printing
queue without the printer acknowledging it at all: it does not print
anything, doesn't send an error message and the lights don't even
blink.

It is happening both in the windows and the linux machines. If I turn
the printer off, unplug it from the computer or place the switch in
the wrong position, the computers say that, of course, there is no
printer around when I tell them to print Something.

Any ideas?

 

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Archived from groups: comp.periphs.printers (More info?)

Press lightly the connector at the printer sideway to ensure good
connection. I had the same problem as you described and it turned out that
the connector's inside contacts were loose. Hope this helps.

"Sven" <poteit0r@yahoo.es> wrote in message
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> I have a HP 6MP I have been used for years. Recently I changed the
> toner cartridge and currently I have it connected to two computers,
> one of them with Windows and the other one with Linux. The printer is
> not "shared": I jsut change it from one to the other through a manual
> switch.
>
> The printer was working fine until some days ago. Now when I turn it
> on all the status lights are ok, but when the computer sends a
> document to print the document just goes straigh through the printing
> queue without the printer acknowledging it at all: it does not print
> anything, doesn't send an error message and the lights don't even
> blink.
>
> It is happening both in the windows and the linux machines. If I turn
> the printer off, unplug it from the computer or place the switch in
> the wrong position, the computers say that, of course, there is no
> printer around when I tell them to print Something.
>
> Any ideas?