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Striped Screen, Printing Stops
I can print a page or two, but then I always get the "striped screen of
death" which contains whatever colors were on the screen at the time, the keyboard and mouse have no effect, ctrl+alt+del does nothing. I have to turn it off manually and back on again. I have tried 3 different printers, different USB ports, different USB cables, also tried a regular printer cable...all the same result. Sometimes it takes a little while, but it always happens. I tried stopping and restarting the print spooler, which seemed to help but actually didn't. I have XP, sp2 and have been using the same printer for a long time but it was fine then. |
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Striped Screen, Printing Stops
It sounds like you have corrupt printer drivers, Try uninstalling them ,
rebooting with the printer disconnected, and reinstall the printer drivers. The reconnect the printer. "Tigger" wrote in message ... I can print a page or two, but then I always get the "striped screen of death" which contains whatever colors were on the screen at the time, the keyboard and mouse have no effect, ctrl+alt+del does nothing. I have to turn it off manually and back on again. I have tried 3 different printers, different USB ports, different USB cables, also tried a regular printer cable...all the same result. Sometimes it takes a little while, but it always happens. I tried stopping and restarting the print spooler, which seemed to help but actually didn't. I have XP, sp2 and have been using the same printer for a long time but it was fine then. |
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Striped Screen, Printing Stops
Thanks for the reply. Do you think that the drivers for all 3 printers are
corrupt? I bought a new Epson Workforce 310 printer about a month ago just to see if that would work properly. It did for a day or so, then the same problem occurred, and the drivers were newly installed with the new printer. I have also tried an old Brother laser printer as a test - same result but it took somewhat longer to present. "Chuck" wrote: It sounds like you have corrupt printer drivers, Try uninstalling them , rebooting with the printer disconnected, and reinstall the printer drivers. The reconnect the printer. "Tigger" wrote in message ... I can print a page or two, but then I always get the "striped screen of death" which contains whatever colors were on the screen at the time, the keyboard and mouse have no effect, ctrl+alt+del does nothing. I have to turn it off manually and back on again. I have tried 3 different printers, different USB ports, different USB cables, also tried a regular printer cable...all the same result. Sometimes it takes a little while, but it always happens. I tried stopping and restarting the print spooler, which seemed to help but actually didn't. I have XP, sp2 and have been using the same printer for a long time but it was fine then. . |
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