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Stupid Print Center won't print
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Registered User
Join Date: Sep 2001
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So my dad's office has this cool printer that prints much better than mine, I take my iBook and go there, connect USB cable, add printer to Print Center, great.
Now I print a document, it's added to the printer document list, and Print Center hangs at establishing printer connection for a while, then stops the print tasks. I press that button again, process repeats itself. The damn thing won't print, but it's recognized. How logical is that?
This was with a HP1220C. The strange thing is that a while ago the exact same thing happened with my own printer, a Canon S400. It suddenly stopped working (but still apeared in the available printer list and in System profiler), same thing with establishing connection etc, and then a day later it magically started working again.
Anybody else had this problem? Any solutions? This is annoying 
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Sep 2000
Location: Tempe, AZ
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I've got this problem, too. A work-around is to print to a PDF file and then print that PDF file from Preview.
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Geekspiff - generating spiffdiddlee software since before you began paying attention.
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Professional Poster
Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: New York, NY
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printing is still a little flaky - especially with the hp drivers out there. However some combination of the following always fixes things for me:
(1) Open the printing queue and delete ALL jobs in there. (Frequently one job will fail, and the queue will be stopped and future jobs won't print just because the queue isn't moving)
(2) Choose "Page Setup" from the File menu in whatever application you are printing from, and make sure that you choose your printer from the pop-up list and not "Any Printer"
(3) Print again.
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Additionally you can:
- Power the printer off and on
- disconnect/reconnect the printer
- delete and re-create the printer in print center
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Generally I find that with a combination of these techniques, I can always print.
Good luck...
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cpac
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Dedicated MacNNer
Join Date: Oct 1999
Location: Seattle, WA, USA
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Another problem is with printing from Word to a Canon S600 printer.
If I select "Print" from the "File" menu, all goes fine.
If I select the Print icon in the toolbar, the job gets sent to the printer, but it does not print AND it stops the print queue. The only way to resume printing anything is to delete the job and select the "Start jobs" button in the Print Center.
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Don
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Posting Junkie
Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: Washington, DC
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You need to pound on the top of the printer HARDER 
But seriously, we hear you... it's a problem. Printing is one thing OS X sucks at...
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