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gz

Joined: 23 Jan 2009
Posts: 8918
Location: Ayrshire, Scotland

Posted: Sat Feb 03, 24 7:07 pm Post subject: Laptop/printer communication

The set up usually works...
But today the pooter is saying "getting printer information"....I have the little turning circle by the cursor arrow showing that it is Doing Something...

And what does "print using the system dialogue" mean.

I need to print off a lot of Ancestry stuff as well as downloading it...if the system crashes I don't want to lose everything.
I have saved this as a pdf , next step is try and open that and print....but I have a feeling that the problem will be the same....

I don't get on the laptop and do stuff regularly, so I lose the simple steps (HA!!!!) of doing things.....
I need a computer nanny here in person

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
Posts: 46210
Location: yes

Posted: Sun Feb 04, 24 11:44 am Post subject:

are the printer drivers up to date?

my printer has taken to asking for confirmation it is "OK" to start physically printing having cached the data ready to go after choosing the thing and pressing"print"

if you do not use it often it might be mechanical, try a printer test, see what happens

slight sideball but is this documents, ie scans etc or text?
if it is the former, it might be choking on the details, if it is, it will be slow as it maps the fly spots and foxing and paper texture etc
either split it into chunks or print at lower resolution/greyscale

gz

Joined: 23 Jan 2009
Posts: 8918
Location: Ayrshire, Scotland

Posted: Sun Feb 04, 24 11:48 am Post subject:
Laptop is recognising the printer, now saying error on printer preview.

gz

Joined: 23 Jan 2009
Posts: 8918
Location: Ayrshire, Scotland

Posted: Sun Feb 04, 24 11:51 am Post subject:
Giving the printer a run through is a good idea.. I am trying to remember how to print off a download instead of doing it from the website. Not doing this often enough for me or the computer I might see if I can do it from the tablet....

gz

Joined: 23 Jan 2009
Posts: 8918
Location: Ayrshire, Scotland

Posted: Sun Feb 04, 24 3:19 pm Post subject:
On laptop On the list of printer jobs.. Status messages two were filter failed. The latest one says "Exception:/var/spool/cups/d00229-01 (object 2 0 , offset 3970): invalid object in page tree "

gz

Joined: 23 Jan 2009
Posts: 8918
Location: Ayrshire, Scotland

Posted: Sun Feb 04, 24 4:11 pm Post subject:
Printer recognises the WiFi How do I get the job sent to it that way? I seem to remember emailing??? Goes off to tidy study to see if instructions got written down and left on the desk...which is behind the eBay packing materials...

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
Posts: 46210
Location: yes

Posted: Sun Feb 04, 24 6:57 pm Post subject:
no wire and follow the instructions?

gz

Joined: 23 Jan 2009
Posts: 8918
Location: Ayrshire, Scotland

Posted: Sun Feb 04, 24 8:09 pm Post subject:
Step one..find the instructions

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
Posts: 46210
Location: yes

Posted: Mon Feb 05, 24 1:47 pm Post subject:
online user manual?

gz

Joined: 23 Jan 2009
Posts: 8918
Location: Ayrshire, Scotland

Posted: Mon Feb 05, 24 2:05 pm Post subject:
Should be one..I might have a real book of words in the file of manuals

tahir

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 45669
Location: Essex

Posted: Mon Feb 05, 24 9:13 pm Post subject:
Have you rebooted the laptop? var/spool indicates a print spooler error, a reboot should clear that

gz

Joined: 23 Jan 2009
Posts: 8918
Location: Ayrshire, Scotland

Posted: Mon Feb 05, 24 9:29 pm Post subject:
Success! WPS WiFi set-up on modem, automatic WiFi connection on printer, send email to printer with doc as attachment Relief!!

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
Posts: 46210
Location: yes

Posted: Mon Feb 05, 24 9:39 pm Post subject:

gz

Joined: 23 Jan 2009
Posts: 8918
Location: Ayrshire, Scotland

Posted: Mon Feb 05, 24 10:23 pm Post subject:
Also means that I have an email record of everything that I have printed from the laptop

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