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My printer stopped printing a few days ago after a paper jam. I cleared the jam, the printer status is "green"; however there were jobs that were stuck. I cancelled all jobs, restarted the PC and printer. Whenever I send a job to the printer, it goes through the motions via the document que; says it's sent to printer, spooling, then nothing...job disappears from print que. The printer never makes a sound as though it's actually getting ready to work. Doesn't make a sound if I turn it off and on either. I've tried using the troubleshooting guide etc., it won't even print a test page.

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Anonymous

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  • Posted on Nov 12, 2008

SOURCE: Hello. Printer is DCP-7020.

hi!!!

may be there is a bug in your
driver installation try to re-install the driver

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Alun Cox

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  • Posted on Jul 16, 2009

SOURCE: Middle of print job - stops to CLEAN - then starts from pg1 AGAIN

This is a simple 3 step fix

a) Get rid of printer
b) Get rid of husband
c) Get new printer

Hope this works!! :-)

Anonymous

  • 405 Answers
  • Posted on Apr 11, 2010

SOURCE: Red "Paper" light stays on; printer will not print.

Paper light flashing could mean several things on this machine.

There could be a paper jam in the machine. Open the front cover remove the drum and toner and look in the machine. You can also check in between the drum and toner by removing the toner from the drum. Open the back cover and look for a Jam as well.

Try putting a piece of paper in the manual feed tray which is right above the paper tray, sometimes on certain documents the margins are too big and asks to go into the manual feed slot.

Swarnava Palit

  • 114 Answers
  • Posted on Jul 18, 2010

SOURCE: My Brother 5240 laser printer has a red status

It may some paper jam inside your printer . open the front cover pull out the cartridge and look any jammed paper is there or not. if not the the problem may came from your toner drum.

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Tom Carson

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  • Posted on Sep 07, 2010

SOURCE: Hi Today one of the two

Here is an excerpt from pricegrabber.com:
Found that unit will run fine past its replace date just fine. you must reset the unit and look at a message that warns the drum life is coming to a close. We have done more prints like this then when the 1st message appeared. It looked like these would be compatible with dr-510 Not true. What a expensive lesson.
Here is how to reset it:
http://www.ehow.com/how_6875410_reset-toner-count-brother-hl5240.html
Good luck, hope this helps, and thanks for using FixYa.

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