Web Pages Not Printing Were Printing (WXP-Home)

[hbest]

I hope I am posting this in the correct forum, I have searched and could not find what I needed. I am running Win XP Home on my Toshiba with all patches/updates. I had been printing articles etc. to use in whatever. All of the sudden, anything I want to print on a web page (always text not pictures as I just haven't had a need to print a picture) just started not printing. My printer works fine from MS Word or Notepad. And, I can highlight text on a web page and then paste it into MS Word an that prints fine as well. I print wirelessly, through a Netgear wireless router and a HP Wireless printer. I am running a home network (2 XP Home desktops, 1 Xp Pro desktop, and the XP Home Laptop) All are now having this problem. I have looked into my firewall ZA Pro, Norton AV, have made no changes to my router settings. Any ideas? If more info is needed, I will list whatever else may be needed to come up with an idea or solution. Any and all help, ideas appreciated. Thanks, Harvey

[dudeinAmerica]

Hmmm.....

While in IE, go to Tools-->Internet Options-->Advanced (tab). At the bottom click 'Restore Defaults', click Apply, then OK. Close out of all open Internet Explorer windows. Open IE back up and now try.

If that doesn't work, try using another browsr such as Vision4 Technologies (http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/>Firefox</a>

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[hbest]

Thanks for the help. I did what you said and it is still a no go. I might try the FireFox idea. This is resally strange. One other thing I just noticed when I go to "print preview" that page displays a blank. But as I said, I can print normally with any other program. (It's A M$ thing I suppose) Thanks again. Harvey

[jmagecko]

Before you do that, you might try:

1) change the resolution setting on your printer, then try a reprint.

2) if your printer has a 'monochrome' setting, try turning it on and/or off and reprint. Even if your printer is a monochrome printer, this setting affects how it renders colors.

3) uninstall, reboot, and reinstall the printer

I'm assuming this problem is a 'hard' problem, and persists through multiple reboots.

[hbest]

Ok, thanks I will give that a try. Its a really weird problem. Printer works like a charm, unless you are printing from the Web. I'l post what happened when I can try your suggestion. Probably late tonight ot tomorrow. Thanks again, Harvey

[jmagecko]

I made an assumption...

When you say it isn't printing, are saying that:
1- no paper is used?

Or are you saying that:
2- paper is fed through, any data transfer activity LEDs (if any) on the printer show 'something' is happening, yet the end result is nothing appears on the paper?

3-Also, does the printer control panel show any documents in the queue when this problem occurs? If it does, do they 'complete' and terminate or do you have to manually abort them?


The questions below are intended to determine the topology of your network, as that can make a diff in what advice might help and where 'fixes' should be applied.

4-Are you using a print server PC, or is it a standalone network printer directly 'connected' to the network where EACH computer has its own unique printer access (in other words, if you removed a certain PC from the network would you be unable to print anything at all) ?

5-Does each computer access the internet through a single PC or do all the computers have their own access?

6-Are you using a single browser application from a single PC, or are you using the browser extant on each PC?