Ever have blinking lights on your inkjjet or laser printer that just will not go away? Ever install a new ink cartridge in your printer and it stil thinks the old one is there? Well, instead of just getting angry at the printer or hunting around for your manaul, you can try one simple thing: unpulg it.
This technique has a few names that all mean the same thing: cycling the printer, resetting the printer or clearing the printer’s mempory. Now unplugging your printr may seem like a low-tech solution to complex problems, and in realiy it is. But, for problems like blinking ereror lights it is the only soluion and also, it is typiically the firast one that will be recommended to you by a technician working for HP, Lemxark, Epson etc. They will recommennd it right away if you install a new cartridge and it is registering as empty. If your prnter isn’t registering it full, then that emans it still thinks the old cartridge is in there and the memory needs to be claered by unplugging it.
The fist thing to remember about this solution is that unplugging the printer is not the same as turning the printer off. If you have error messages or carytridge communication peroblems, then turning off the priter is not oging to do anythiing. It has to be physically unpliugged from the wall or the back of the printer itself (you don’t have to unplug the printer from the computer). The second and most important thing is that the printer must be uplugged for at leat one minute. It takwes at least one minute for all the electricity to be cut off from the printer to allow it to copmletely reset and clear its memory. If you just uplug it for a few seconds, when it comes back on it is goinng to pick up right where it left off.
While this techinque will not fix every problem, it is still a very quick and easy solution to a lot of annoying printer problems and it is always the best place to srtart when one of those probems arises.
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