HPLASERJET 2840 LOW MEMORY - WONT PRINT

[aerophil2]

I have a HP laserjet 2840, which has been working fine for 3 years. I printed 6 color pages and it will not print the 7th page or anything else. I get a "Low Memory" message and on the printer display it says "Low Memory - press Enter", but it only prints a blank page.

The ink cartridges are full. I looked at HP Toolbox and it shows total memory 96MB and available memory 46.38MB.

I tried turning off the power and unplugging it, and pressing # and 6 when plugging back in, but nothing works.

How do I get it to print?

 

[servmgr2004]

Your memory is faulty. Do an NVRAM reset and a firmware update. If that doesn't work, replace the RAM.

 

[DansDadUK]

... or it may just be that the 7th page is too complex for the printer to handle with its available memory.

Note that to rasterise an 8" x 11" rectangle with 24-bit colour at 600 dots-per-inch would require over 90MB if compression is not used.

What happens if you power-cycle the printer, then attempt to print a simple text job?