Anonymous Posted on Jan 07, 2013

Hp printer won't clear print queue after printing

Recently we have been getting a lot of postscript gibberish pages when trying to print. Then after reseting the printer I might get 1 or 2 prints and then it stops. Looking at the print queue (mac 10.7) it shows the last job still printing even after it has printed and is done, but won't clear the job so the next job can start.

Anonymous Jan 09, 2013

Have reinstalled print drivers to no avail. The networked printer is on a private subnet so resetting to factory defaults is a royal pain. Right now we can print new jobs to it but have to manually delete each print job from the queue after it has completed otherwise no other print jobs can be sent.
Anonymous Jan 09, 2013

FYI, it is only Mac systems printing to the network printer

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Have you tried uninstalling the printer, rebooting, and then reinstalling the printer?

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It sounds like yuor printer driver needs to be be refreshed or reloaded. go here to find the correct one - http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/softwareCategory?product=1128296&lc=en&cc=us&dlc=en&lang=en&cc=us

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Possible that a reset might help. It is worth trying to re-install.Shut down PC system and restart with the printer removed , then install the driver software and on completion connect the printer-hardware- to be installed.Test and see if it works or else you might need help from HP support.Check this link : http://www8.hp.com/uk/en/support-drivers.html

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