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Help: wild printer

16 May 00 - 03:08 PM (#228935)
Subject: wild printer
From: kendall

Can someone help me? I was printing out the spoonerisms, and, not wanting 20 pages of side comments, I turned the printer off. Now, it is printing in huge letters, and wont stop!! It's like the Sorcerors friggin' apprentice..

16 May 00 - 03:10 PM (#228936)
Subject: RE: Help: wild printer
From: Mbo

I've been a Wild Printer for many a year
My oversized fonts will bring many a tear
But even since Kendall has thrown me to the floor
I swear I'll be a Wild Printer no more...

--Mbo

16 May 00 - 03:13 PM (#228938)
Subject: RE: Help: wild printer
From: kendall

clever, mbo, but, not very helpful!!

16 May 00 - 03:16 PM (#228940)
Subject: RE: Help: wild printer
From: Bert

If you're using Windows, go to


Start - Settings - Printers - select your printer - go to the printer pulldown in that window - purge print documents.

Bert.

16 May 00 - 03:22 PM (#228942)
Subject: RE: Help: wild printer
From: Joe Offer

Hi, Kendall- You should probably wait until the printer stops doing what it's doing, and then turn off the computer and then the printer. Wait five minutes, and then turn on the printer first and then the computer.
Next time, remember not to touch your printer while it's working. You can sometimes cancel a printer's operations by clicking on the printer icon on your computer (or like Bert says, in the Control Panel), but it won't stop immediately. Yes, it's very much like the Sorcerer's Apprentice.
Your printer and monitor and most other equipment should be turned on BEFORE you turn your computer on, and should be turned off AFTER you turn the computer off. I just leave my printer turned on all the time, and that seems to work well for me.
-Joe Offer-

16 May 00 - 10:52 PM (#229142)
Subject: RE: Help: wild printer
From: kendall

OK thanks. The thing is, there can be 20 pages of stuff, and one page which I want to print. I hate to waste that much paper.

17 May 00 - 01:15 AM (#229192)
Subject: RE: Help: wild printer
From: Escamillo

In Windows any printing command brings up a dialog where you will find a group of radio-buttons with the options:
. Print all
. Print from page .... to page ...
Fill in the gaps with the same page number and "Accept"
Let the Printing Force be with you - Andrés

17 May 00 - 01:21 AM (#229196)
Subject: RE: Help: wild printer
From: Sorcha

My trouble is figuring out WHICH page out of the 20 it is that I want to print.........let's see, the slider bar is half way down at what I want to print, so it might be page 10, or 9, or 11........duh. Any way to figure this accurately?

17 May 00 - 01:31 AM (#229198)
Subject: RE: Help: wild printer
From: Escamillo

If you open your document in WORD, you´ll see the page number down to the left. Yo can also select File/Preview and you´ll see one or two pages per screen, and their page numbers. I don´t know if you are using Word, but I think almost all editors have some way to obtain a "printer preview".
Best of luck - you´ll need it :)) Andrés

17 May 00 - 02:56 AM (#229221)
Subject: RE: Help: wild printer
From: MudGuard

In Internet Explorer, you can highlight the part you want to print (move mouse pointer to beginning of wanted section, press and keep pressed left mouse button, move mouse pointer to end of wanted section).
Then go to File menu and choose Print... command (do NOT use the Print icon in the toolbar as this tends to print the hole page!).
In the print dialog, in the print range box, select the radio button for "Selection"
This should print just the highlighted part of the page (without you having to know which pages these are).

In Netscape it should work the same (but my 6.0 PreRelease installation disables the "Selection" and "Pages" radio buttons

MudGuard

17 May 00 - 10:17 AM (#229301)
Subject: RE: Help: wild printer
From: catspaw49

I don't see Kendall saying he actually got it fixed and I ran across this press release:

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
AP968403/39 US/ME/51800
748838299456/084764/88383517-gh8-93/b3
ITEM:
An unidentified white male has been taken into custody by officers of the Maine State Troopers after being found babbling incoherently on his front porch while beating back reams of paper with a 12 string guitar. The paper was flowing out of his front door like a river and the man, described by officers as a "grizzled old fart," was screaming nonsense about having a "long, skinny, little finger" and something sounding like "nuckinfutz spoons." The only clear words that were understood appear to be, "Bill Gates can kiss my flat ass." Authorities turned off power to the house and have ordered psychiatric evaluations.

Just thought it might have something to do with Kendall.

Spaw

17 May 00 - 10:30 AM (#229311)
Subject: RE: Help: wild printer
From: Sorcha

Thanks Andres and Mudgaurd. That is exactly what I needed to know. Now I won't have to hitch a ride with kendall to TNYCFTS!!

17 May 00 - 10:56 AM (#229322)
Subject: RE: Help: wild printer
From: kendall

Mudgard, your instructions were right on the money..thanks to all for the help.. 'Spaw, dont tell anyone, but, I havn't laughed that hard in ages!!

18 May 00 - 02:38 AM (#229756)
Subject: RE: Help: wild printer
From: MudGuard

Sorcha and kendall, you are welcome!
But please do not maim my - in a long process selected - nickname any longer! It is neither Mudgaurd nor Mudguard, but Mudguard!
MudGuard

18 May 00 - 05:15 AM (#229787)
Subject: RE: Help: wild printer
From: Joe Offer

Oh, Kendall's my name
And singin's my game
And Maine is my home
Where the wild printers roam...

...and the skies are not cloudy all day???

18 May 00 - 06:27 AM (#229800)
Subject: RE: Help: wild printer
From: McGrath of Harlow

When my printer gets out of line I take away its paper. supply. That normally brings it to its senses, and gives me time to sort things out. You can't let these machines have it all their own way.

18 May 00 - 06:44 AM (#229804)
Subject: RE: Help: wild printer
From: kendall

But, Joe, I'm afraid I said a discouraging word..

18 May 00 - 07:01 AM (#229805)
Subject: RE: Help: wild printer
From: Barbara Shaw

You can also take all the paper out, as McGrath of Harlow says, and then recycle back into the feeder some of the pages you don't want that were already printed on, just to let the printer finish what it started (if you can't purge it). Cuts the waste.

18 May 00 - 09:12 PM (#230244)
Subject: RE: Help: wild printer
From: Jon Freeman

Thinking of waste, I find that the paper from unwanted printouts, cut up, makes a good supply of notepaper on my desk.

Jon

19 May 00 - 04:51 AM (#230391)
Subject: RE: Help: wild printer
From: kendall

Hey Barbara, I did just that, but, it also wastes ink. I still havn't found Roses are Blooming, but, I havn't given up (I'm a Taurus)

19 May 00 - 08:54 AM (#230452)
Subject: RE: Help: wild printer
From: MMario

Just an aside...if your printer is messing up big time, the (usually) BEST solution is usually to turn it off, THEN go and purge the print job. If you are able to reboot your computer at that time, that can also clear out unwanted stuff in the buffers that might continue to print. THEN turn the printer back on and it should react as "normal"