The printer will not print. Printer screen says, "Flushing Buffer".
No response from the original poster as of 6/6/09. Normally, a "Flushing Buffer" message is pointing at a Postscript problem. A quick easy test would be to set the printer for PCL and retry the job. If it works, then you really need to look at the PS print file to find the error. Don
Follow up, clarification:
A "Flushing Buffer" message is generated by the Postscript Interpreter because the printer is set to Postscript but the incoming data is not Postscript.
Most likely cause is the the "Auto Smartswitch" on the printer has been turned off.
Don
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I had this happen from a corrupt print job just needed cleared.
Open paper tray 1 (if it is the default paper tray), take out all the paper, adjust (temporarily) the paper size from letter to a different size, place it back to letter size, place back the paper, place back paper tray 1. Check the correct paper size is configured for the paper tray 1 at the Paper Menu.
This answer is way off
I believe this is the troubleshoot for a totally different issue, LoL
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intermediate problems, flushing buffer, printer cycles but nothing prints then it goes back to flushing buffer. Lexmark T644
Incoming print data is in buffers while swath memory builds the next sets of image to be put on the page.
"Flushing Buffer" is the message that appears when an error occurs that causes the printer to dump the contents of the incoming buffers.
Are you using Postscript or one of the PCL Emulations? What communication port on the printer are you using. If you are using? If you are using a parallel port connection, which parallel protocol are you using?
Don
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