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HP printers print garbage after jam

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scallosa

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Mar 7, 2002
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This is one issue that I have not seen addressed.
I've had this problem on HP 660 and 880 plus few other HP's.
Sometimes when printing, after a jam or paper outage, and the print job is deleted from printer queue, the printer will from then on print nothing but garbage (hearts, weird characters etc).
I reboot and all is then ok.
But I have to ask, what causes this? Is their a way to clear a printer buffer area to fix this, if that is the problem? Is the problem on the pc side or is it something messed up in the printer itself?
Yes, I can always reboot, but I would like to delve a bit deeper into the workings of the all powerful (yet devious)
workings of the PC.
Thanks.
 
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