So my office printer lx 310 suddenly printing symbol / gibberish

This printer was connected to a "main" pc with cables then shared to others.

I don't know the cause, but I've tried connecting it to a different pc with cables not shared. Every pc in office print the same.

I've tried bring it to printer service guy and like magic it prints the way it supposed to. After i bring them to office and once again it print symbol / gibberish. I say to the guy it still print symbols and he said he didn't know the cause either.

Can someone help me with this ?

Thankyou

Pics is showing when i tried to print "TEST"

Is this worth rushing to get for 170 on marketplace , never used apparently. And bought in 2015 not sure if there are any past issues with those made in that batch. in nyc too

getting very grainy and very flat prints is this expected results on this Canon Printer

What would you like to accomplish?

I need an ink printer for my PhD home office. I do duplex-scans and copies out of books with up to 50 pages, print out documents (1-20 pages, sometimes more) and coloured pictures (on regular paper) for vision boards / journal.

Are there any models you are currently looking at?

No, I'm at the beginning of my research and am kind of overwhelmed to be honest. So any information and recommondation would be much appreciated :-)

Minimum Requirements:

• Budget: up to 350 €
• Country: Germany
• Color or black and white: Colour
• Laser or ink printer: Ink
• New or used: New
• Multi-function: Not sure what this means, but I do need a scanner (fax would be nice)
• Duplex Printing: YES, that's important
• Home or business: Home office
• Printing content: text and images/photos on regular paper
• Printing frequency: multiple pages per week, some weeks 5, some 100 pages (with an occasional break)
• Pages per minute: basic printing speed would be plenty, fast scanning would be appreciated
• Page size: A4
• Device printing from: Laptop, Mac and Windows
• Connection type: USB A and C and preferably wireless/WiFi

Any other details:

I had a few negative experiences with laser printer so I now want to try out an ink printer. I also don't know if I should look for an cartridge or tank ink printer.

Do you know what may be causing this?? The paper I’m using is 300gm and I’m feeding it manually, it was printing without any issues but then after a couple prints these random black ink dots started showing what can I don to fix this?? This problem doesn’t seem to happen on bond papel or thin papel

Looking for a printer for my apartment, budget under $200. I mostly print documents (lots of them), plus a decent amount of color, though that's not the main use. Duplex printing is important to me. Scanning is a nice-to-have.

What's going on?

Strap yourselves in. This is a doozy.

The lease on the printer in our office was up (and the machine was starting to act screwy, like it knew we were going to replace it so it tried to cause as much chaos as it could), so we renewed our lease with a newer machine, the Canon iR-ADV DX c5860i with a Booklet Finisher-A1.

Three other people in the office are connected to the printer: 2 Windows users, 1 Mac user, and myself, a GNU/Linux user. Each of us has encountered squirrely problems, but mostly figured them out.

Except for me.

This printer seems to hate my machine.

1. From LibreOffice, I can print a booklet of 8.5"x5.5" pages on Letter size paper folded in half, saddle-stitched, no problem. Works great. Except if I try to print more than one. Then it tries to print all of the separate booklets as one booklet and saddle-stitch the whole collection together.
2. When printing a test page from the printer settings, or a full page Letter PDF from Scribus, the result is off center and scaled down (see documents linked below).
3. If, however, I print a full page Letter or Legal PDF with Iceweasel/Firefox, it comes out looking almost completely fine, except the margins are a bit too wide, like the printer is adding an extra margin even when explicitly told not to.
4. Like the last printer we had, I can't print a booklet of 8.5"x7" pages on Legal size paper folded in half and saddle-stitched. The printer doesn't even recognize this is a possibility. It works on the Windows machines, though.
5. I crawled through the printer options on the machine itself and couldn't find anything that looked out of place. I did notice, however, that IPP Everywhere is not enabled. This is relevant below.

I'm fairly certain this is a case of the printer drivers being completely and utterly screwy, and I'm not hopeful I can find a solution. Part of the problem may be, if there are multiple drivers available, I'm not always sure exactly which one is being called upon (Canon download, foomatic, gutenprint).

What steps you have already tried?

• Reinstalling the current, official UFR II/UFRII LT Printer Driver for Linux V6.40.
• Downgrading the official driver to versions 6.30 and 6.20, the only versions I could still find official downloads for.
• Since CUPS, the open printing system for GNU/Linux, is deprecating PPD-based printer drivers, I tried switching to the CUPS driverless option. This allowed me to print basic documents with what appeared to be the right margins, but printing booklets with automatic fold and saddle-stitch was impossible.
• I tried with foomatic-db, foomatic-db-ppds, foomatic-db-engine, or foomatic-db-gutenprint-ppds installed, and without. I didn't notice a difference.
• I did not try downloading a driver from the OpenPrinting Foomatic Database.

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I’ve had my printer for a few months and everything’s been fine. Connected to my phone on set up no problem. I recently changed internet providers recently; however, and can not get them reconnected.

It keeps telling me to connect the phone to the printer when I’m trying to do wireless setup. I can’t connect the phone to the printer anyway because it only has USB-B ports. I’ve spent HOURS messing with this and it just runs me in the same circles trying to do it.

I am beyond shocked at HP. I reached out to tech support to get assistance, and after about 45 minutes of troubleshooting they determined I would just have to get a new printer (which they would send me for free) and I would just have to send the old one back. The agent I spoke with assured me everything would be good to go after that, and I have 15 days to return it. This was the same day that I made my previous post.

I live in a larger city so shipping was pretty quick, they said it would arrive in roughly 4-5 buissness days.

I then proceeded to recieve three textmessages through whatsapp from DHL telling me my order had been processed and that they would ship it to me so on and so on. I figured it must've been a mistake, but nope!

Yesterday I recieved a shipment with yellow ink in it. Maybe the guy had sent an extra one? Okay great. I then recieved another yellow ink today. Okay weird, maybe theres another one. Now, at almost 5 at night, I recieved another package, WITH YELLOW INK. Now everytime I try to connect to the chat with an agent, It says "Agent Connected" and nothing. I have been trying for over two hours.

I am beside myself in how strange this is. The agent clearly said replacement printer. The email I got also expressely said I have a replacement printer.

Second Update: As I was about to post this, I just got 2 new whatsapp messages with different new order numbers telling me that they are preparing to ship my package. If this is more yellow ink I'm going to have enough to shower in.

I get to this point and it does not go past.

We are pretty unfamiliar with what's possible for printers and are trying to find something for event check in.

Ideally we generate a pdf with the graphic and name information ahead of time that we can print adhoc on roll paper as part of the check in process. These badges would go into a name tag holder that's 3x4.

Is that possible? We wanted to save a bit of paper because not everyone who registers will show up.

hi, I'm having the problem shown in the picture, and I'm really frustrated with it. I've been using this printer for three years without any issues, but now this has happened...

My printer is a Canon G3410. I know the problem is related to the printhead nozzles, but I don't know how to fix it.

Should I buy a new printhead, or should I try cleaning the existing one? If cleaning is the better option, how exactly should I do it?

I'd really appreciate any help or advice because I need this printer for my work. Thank you!

Printer Model:HP 8600 Plus Error Message:The printhead appears to be missing,not detected, or incorrectly installed Ethernet Cable, WiFi or USB: WiFi Driver name and version: HP Officejet Pro 8600 4.0 Firmware Version: CLP1CN2011AR OS: Tahoe 26.6.2 of machines impacted: 4 of users impacted:4 Original or 3rd party cartridges: Original

Well...The pre-2018 8600 Plus greeted us yesterday with the printhead error. I have:

--jiggled the printhead-->no change

--removed and reinstalled printhead-->no change

--done the help/back/home boot, other key pressing boot suggestions--> printer does not recognize them, remains locked at error

--removed printhead, cleaned gold contacts on inner side of circuit board, reinstalled printhead-->no change

Is there anything else to try before I make a post asking for printer suggestions? I'm leery of going third party AND still having to buy a printer; $300 for a hp part is new printer territory.

Was wondering if these are 3rd party ink ?

Does anybody run an Epson SureColor T3170X and know why my files are being cropped..?

My files were made with the idea to be print ready and were created well under what my roll is capable of.. (19”x15” file size.) (roll size 24”x100’)

Every time I go to print from photoshop, I would receive a message telling me the image was being cropped and it would print out to a different size than what was originally made.

I’ve also tried taking the image and saving a PDF to my own files from photoshop. When I go to print from my saved files, I see in print preview that my image was still reduced in size and not the same dimensions as I originally created it.

I tried calling Adobe and spent an over an hour on the phone. They eventually got into a remote session and this is where they began to somehow make things worse…(we started to run print tests with a number of different settings. After trying 3 times to print an image, only to have film shooting out without any ink being laid down. They eventually gave up and told me “it was a problem with my printer settings and they were unable to assist me.”

I then tried calling Epson. Spent an hour on the phone with them until they tried claiming that it was an issue on Adobes end and it needed to be resolved there as that’s the software I made my file..

If anyone has any advice, guidance or experience with these things, I could use the help direly… this has been bothering me to there point where I can’t sleep. And I have no idea, direction or understanding of how to fix this issue.

SOS TO THE SMART PEOPLE OF THE INTERNET AND THANK YOU SO MUCH TO ANYONE WHO STEPS IN.🙏🏻❤️

https://github.com/CarlosWCX/Automatic-email-printer-purge.git
I just vibecoded a google script that sends an email to your printer and prints a purge sheet every week at 9 am. You can change the purge sheet with anotherone if you think the current one uses too much ink by replacing the drive image id.

I think this is pretty useful since it gets rid of the esporadical printers out there who leave the printer without using for a long period of time and will save a lot of printers from clogging.

Also this only works on printers with email printing so check if your printer has this feature.

If there's anything that can be improved please let me know

Epson Ecotank ET-2400 for sublimation printing user here. Printer started doing this a few pages ago and now won't stop. I've done nozzle cleanings, I can't see the page to do head alignments (as pictured above), I've done power cleanings, and I've done purge pages. Any ideas? I'm at my wit's end. I have a flea market I need this printer for as sublimation is my job.

Considering a Xerox C255a - anybody got anything good or bad to say about Xerox?

I’m getting a solid yellow line across 13x19. I’ve replaced yellow drum, ITB and ITB cleaner. Inspected developer and I don’t see anything any ideas. Both sides btw

so i was gonna print a document and it just wont print. i think its prolly a problem w the rollers but idk. idk what even happened. check the video.

Hello, I'm looking to buy a canon ts705a which is in my budget to make photocards. I've been testing paper gsms. I've tested 180,200 and 240 gsm and they all feel too lanky, even when laminated w 3mil microns (5mil microns lef t it wayy to thick, and its "plastic" type of thick which I dont like, I need "paper" thick) if im explaining myself. Apparently this printer prints up to 300gsm canon paper. I have non-canon 300 gsm but the paper I have is 0.4 mm, and I've searched thas canon 300 gsm paper is 0.3mm. and I'm afraid to fuck the printer up bc of that, bc idk if when they say "maximun (-) gsm" they mean the actual gsm (the weight) or the ASSUMED thickness of that gsm paper. If anyone could help me out I'll appreciate it

I work as a graphics designer on a graphics-heavy TV show, so print quality and reliability is very important to me. I find myself in a bit of a bind.

Two months ago my three-year-old Epson SC-P900 stopped working. Paper started getting jammed with every print job and the machine would make a loud, gear-jam gear noise whenever we tried to print. Epson wasn't able to help troubleshoot over the phone and because it was beyond the warranty period, I decided to buy a new Canon Image Prograf Pro 1100 in August.

Canon was great at first, but about a month in it started banding on dark color-dense images. Sometimes the banding is faint, others much more stark, but it is often there. I called Canon a dozen times and after many printhead cleanings, nozzle checks and printhead alignments, eventually they sent me a new Pro 1100 at the end of September. I'm wondering if others agree that Canon Customer Support is generally much better than Epson's.

At the beginning of this week my less-than-two-week-old Pro 1100 started banding AGAIN. After after calling Canon, the nozzle checks won't print with totally solid black bars, so they are sending me ANOTHER unit of this $1,400 printer. They don't really seem to have an answer as to why this keeps happening. While I'm grateful that they are so willing to send out a new unit to fix my problem, setting up this new heavy printer is a pain, I still have to ship back the old one, and I'd rather have a printer that just works.

I'm thinking about returning the Prograf Pro 1100 and going back on the market for a new printer. Seeing as how finicky these machines can be, both Epson and Canon, customer support is important to me. Is it the general consensus that Canon has better customer support?

TLDR: My Epson and Canon $1,500 printers have both broken. What would be your next move in my position? What have others' experiences with both Epson and Canon printers at the $1,500-2k range been? Can you recommend other printers at this calibre that you have loved and have worked, or at least been covered by warranty, for a good long time? Any advice or insight would be appreciated!