computer question: why is my printer not working?

(like i have to "reinstall" the modem every time i switch platforms, even though it says at the end of the reinstallation "modem all already installed"! if i don't it doesn't do anything when i click connect to go online)

and i can't use safari anymore on osX either :(

have you tried "repairing permission" and stuff? there's a program that does it, http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/21674&vid=188371&mode=info but i could very easily be talking nonsense

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i actually think i am going to initialise and reinstall over the weekend: i think os9 is not properly installed - i had a prob w.the CD drive going wonky DURING the install - and so not everything is talkin to everything else

the app i linked to also cleans out old system logs and does a general spring cleaning, but you just reinstalled, hence the possible nonsensical nature of what i'm suggesting

i guess it can't hurt to do it again, including a good ol format of the drive, especially if there were flutters and dodges during installation itself

xpost: what needs 10.2 minimum, yr printer? what a finicky printer! if yr install disks say 10.1.5 then ahoy i see the white whale

can i just download stuff to upgrade that far? i couldn't track anything down last week that allowed me to

but if the CD drive was getting stroppy mid-install maybe just do the whole thing over again? haha grebt thing about this plan is that you can just TRASH the place beforehand if you want, so why not try the util above, maybe it will be like throwing a party right before you move house.. or you cd wait for someone like tombot to see this, he might have a much better idea about what's happening than i do

i take this to be a v.bad sign (related to the fuck-ups caused by launching the classic platform) so i am goin to initialise and reinstall whatever

Oh hi. HP printer is now doing something really weird. Print something twice, the first time looks nice and sharp but the next time noticeably blurry like some really bad cheap reprint. What could it be? Some weird she’s lost control character?

difft computer, difft laptop, difft cause of probem -- but same problem tho (printer not working)

it was working this morning, then it went into repeat paper-jam mode like ten times in a row -- i cleared all the jams and did various other things that usually help* but now the printhead is behaving erratically (banging and clattering as it zips back and forth)** plus the paper is not feeding through out of the papertray

*wiped the ribbon and cleaned the rollers insofaras i can access them
**this makes me think it may be fvcked enough to biy a new home printer? this one is ten-plus years old and i no longer need one that's A3 compatible.

always hope a new printer will be a humming hi-tech miracle of smooth activity, instead of the usual clicks and clacks and scrapes and juddering lol

Bought a new printer a couple of weeks ago and it prints from my laptop via wi-fi with no problem, but forces me to unplug it and restart it every time I want to print something from the desktop computer it's actually plugged into. Very annoying.

ok lol the black ink cartridge ran out ALREADY (i've printed maybe 120 pages since setting up?)

(tbf the cartridges are relatively inexpensive compared to my last printer)

also so far (after automatic the text run-out, which was in full colour) it's printed out everything as black and greyed-out -- but i imagine that's a me-problem settingswise (and as i mainly print text by considerable margins it's not yet an urgent problem)