HELP! My printer is nuts

Flesh Thorn · Post by **Flesh Thorn** » November 21st, 2004, 11:20 am

Every now and then my printer will go nuts and run thru a whole stack of paper printing clubs, spades, hearts, diamonds,music notes, etc.and little characters of all kinds when I try to print stuff off of the net like articles and some e-mails. I suspect some kind of virus, but my Symantec Anti Virus Corporate edition find nothing. Any ideas on what this is ? My printer is a HP Desk Jet 841C.

LowCrawler · Post by **LowCrawler** » November 21st, 2004, 11:39 am

Ranger Flesh Thorn,

If it is indeed a virus, a visit to www.housecall.antivirus.com will likely solve the issue.

on that site there is a link that will take you to a free online virus scan. It works wonders.

Other than that, have you tried reinstalling the printer drivers?

Joseph PrettyDeepWater · November 21st, 2004, 4:06 pm

Ranger Flesh Thorn, I have had that exact problem.

I'm pretty sure its not from a virus, what I've found is if I turn the printer off while its trying to print, or if I mess with it at all while its printing then the next time I turn it on, it will start printing out all of those symbols for up to 5 minutes.

Sure is a pain in the ass.

~Joseph

BadMuther · Post by **BadMuther** » November 21st, 2004, 6:14 pm

Fuck HP printers, spend a 100 bucks for an all in one Lexmark 5150....copy, scan, print, fax-I love mine.

I had trouble with HP printers for years.

Flesh Thorn · Post by **Flesh Thorn** » November 22nd, 2004, 12:19 am

After looking at the site that Xducer sent me a link to it sounds like a HP Desk Jet problem and not a virus. Something to do with the printer having trouble with binary code. Since I work for retards I will either have to resolve it or live with it.

Bugsy · Post by **Bugsy** » November 22nd, 2004, 2:37 am

Yeah I agree with Xducer bro its probably a corrupted print driver.