Dell All-In-One Printer 946 - display gone haywire!

Have you installed the printer driver? If you did and it won't print....uninstall it and reinstall the driver.

In printing properties have you selected the 'grayscale' option, if still not working, in printer properties select maintenance > select Ink and cartridge settings > there select "black Ink only"

Dell does not have Mac drivers for this printer. Your Dell printer was made by Lexmark and if you can find a similar printer on Lexmark’s website, it might or might not work. You can also try Gutenprint for Mac OS X which may or may not work.

this is happening because you have to download the updated drivers for the dell aio 946 windows 7 printer .

reinstall the printer driver and check the printer spooler started or not........... to start print spooler go to start...>run..then type services,msc then enter..>it will open a window....>open printer spooler service and restart it.....................

Install old cartriage, if you still have it, let the machine tell you that it is empty, then go through the install process with one of the new ones.  

turn off the printer.
disconnect the printer from the computer.
restart the computer.
conencted the printer after the computer is up, and all applications are loaded.
the computer should inform you the printer is connected.
send a test page to the printer.
done

You need to set the size of your page on the printer preferences.
If you need more help you can see the manual of your printer here: http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/prn946/en/index.htm

it's in the menu under settings...

Same thing happened to me....yesterday I went online at www.dell.com to download the latest firmware & driver for my Dell 946 Printer. After downloading the firmware the printer went haywire and is rendered useless. It emits beeps and the green power light will stay lit then flash every 3 seconds or so. There is no read-out on the lcd display.
I phoned Dell only to be told I should not have downloaded the firmware and that Dell does not recommend downloading firmware. If that is the case then why is the firmware listed on the Dell site with instructions to do so? I was advised that no support could be offered because the printer is out of warranty and was told to uninstall the printer and re-install. I have tried everything, including uninstalling printer, unplugging printer, etc. and nothing has helped. I have researched online and note that this is a recurrent problem. This problem is noted in the forums section of Dell.com - I have followed directions listed in the forum section of Dell.com as noted (see below websites) but this has not fixed the problem....

http://en.community.dell.com/forums/p/19261215/19444405.aspx?c=us&l=en&cs=RC1009777&s=fed

http://en.community.dell.com/forums/t/19167220.aspx?c=us&l=en&cs=RC1009777&s=fed

http://en.community.dell.com/forums/p/19256007/19422649.aspx

http://www.fixya.com/support/t416532-dell_946_aio_printer_stop_beeping_after

http://help.com/post/233917-dell-aio-946-printer-help

Since this seems to be a known problem and the problem is actually caused by downloading firmware from the Dell site I feel it is an injustice not to offer some type of support to rectify the problem. I have always bought Dell products and advised others to do so, but with this problem I feel that I will be changing my brand that I purchase.

I will be contacting Consumer Reports - I feel this warrants some type of recall!!