Does not print the printer - what should I do?

For a person familiar with the contents of the system unit and the basic settings, such questions rarely become problems. However, an ordinary user, an office worker or a home PC owner is likely to encounter a whole chain of questions. There are quite a few reasons why your printer suddenly stopped printing, and below we will look at the main ones.

What should I do if the printer does not print and displays an error?

For the average user, there is nothing worse than a pop-up window with an error, where many words are written and nothing is clear. If you can read the contents of the message to the person who knows, he will tell you the reason for the error. So there are several types of this type of message:

1. The so-called software errors. Issue them will be the PC in case the printer software is installed incorrectly or deleted (not to be confused with the drivers). Often this is the result of the virus. If you do not print one printer out of several, the first thing you should do is check the driver conflict.
2. Sometimes it does not print the printer over the network due to hardware errors. For example, you saw a message that the printer can print faster, or it just stopped responding. This is typical for USB port problems. A message about replacing the cartridge or cases where the printer does not print well, although there is paint, check the correctness of the cartridge itself. Sometimes a chip is stained with a toner, which makes the work incorrect. By the way, the message about cartridge replacement is sometimes the result of printer overheating.

When the printer does not print and there are no messages on the screen, the first thing to do is check the connection. Does your PC see a printer in principle? To do this, you need to find the correct device in the task manager and make sure that it is connected correctly. On problems with the connection, the icon will be indicated in the form of a red cross or an exclamation point. Sometimes in the settings specify the prohibition to print data of a certain format. It would be nice to check the print queue. Often because of an error, the printer itself sends an old print job, thereby blocking the operation of the rest of the PC.

Poor printer prints, although there is paint

For fans to save and do everything with their own hands, information on the cartridge itself will be useful. Surely, in each office there is a person who will break to please his superiors and will suggest filling the cartridge himself. Remember: the cost of a new cartridge is often a third, if not half, of the cost of the entire printer. And this is a reason to think hard.

And yet, the cartridge is full, but does not want to print or the seal is weak. When expensive equipment is equipped with a special chip, the counter of the pages, it is very easy to damage it. It is equally easy to knock down the spring or scratch the drum when it comes to laser technology. But for the simplest ink version, the typical case is the drying out of the ink.

The printer does not print pdf files

With paint everything is fine, with software too, but a certain format your printer does not see, and does not want to print. Rather, it prints, but instead of text on paper completely incomprehensible symbols. This problem is relatively rare today, but even modern equipment is not yet available to everyone.

But in fact, the printer does not print pdf files because of incorrect encoding. Your printer simply can not understand the language in which the text is printed. The simplest way around this problem is to select "Print as image" in the advanced print settings. Now your printer sees the contents as a picture.

Despite the fact that it is very easy to use the printer , additional knowledge of possible problems will make your life much easier.