OMG! Help me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[gameboy 11]

OK. We Have this HP Printer, and it fuckin' rocks this world. Anyway, we've had it for about 3 weeks and it has given no problems...

I know it's my fault but I want to fix this:

I put in a piece of paper that was previously used because most of the paper was still there, and I thought it could be reused. Anyway, I tried printing something out and in the process it got stuck!!!

Then these orange lights started blinking like a rabid animal, and the letter, "E" was displayed. Now, I'm here.

I pulled the piece of paper out as gently as I could, and then turned it off. I thought that would fix things but I turned it on after about 30 second. It won't print now. It says that there is no printer!!!

Now, no one but me really uses this thing, so I have about 2 days or so to fix this.

Should I go to HPs website or can you help??

This shit is so urgent!

*spanks hand for using a sheet of paper that wasn't whole*

 

[gameboy 11]

HP Deskjet F4140

Haha. I just thought I needed a lil discipline. ^_^

 

[thermodynamics]

You probably need to go so far as to unplug it from the wall for a minute or so. Most, if not all, HP's are soft-off devices, so their "power off" mode is nothing but sleep. You need to force a complete restart, something that only happens by unplugging it.

 

[WYSIWYG]

Firstly you NEVER pull any paper out even gently! Should be a way to hit a button to eject the paper that was stuck!

Info at the HP site is correct and should work for you....had several HP printers and they all SUCKED and not in a good way. Have Canon now and it is a 1000 times better than any HP I had every owned!

 

[gameboy 11]

It's dead Jim dead Jim dead Jim dead Jim

There's Klingons on the starboard bow and it's dead Jim.

Have a read of this (especially the last bit - edit: Thermo got there first - a hard restart is recommended):

http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/...le=15464&printable=no&dest_page=documentIndex

You, my good sir, deserve a great hand job, LOL

Turning it off, and unplugging it for 5 mins. seemed to do the trick! ^_^b

 

[trawler69]

If in doubt always do an engineer reset: Turn it off and turn it on again. And by turn off I mean unplug. Ignore all this 30 second rubbish, if the led's have gone out then the micro controller will have done a reset. The 30 seconds is just given to cover those few things with low power consumption and a switched mode power supply with a big capacitor on the input rectifier. Generally if the unit has leds and they go out then you can turn it back on and it will be reset.

Edit: beaten to it but I bet the 5 mins were unnecessary.

 

[provenlogic]

I dunno, HP printers aren't that bad... They're better than this crap Epson i have.

 

[cit2mo]

Hp and Epson aren't bad brands, but they do both make bad models- for instance, the printer that came for free with my pc is an epson. It never once printed properly, every single time i tried to print, it tried to feed two pages through, resulting in a paper jam. Every Time!
After about a week I tossed it and bought the stylus CX4800 (now replaced by the Stylus CX5000).
Not a "Lexus of printers" by any means, but it gets the job done (despite a very long warm up period before the first page that it prints, ugh...), and photos look quite nice.

 

[gameboy 11]

I'm jumping on a fishing boat to Dunkirk - it'll be my own invasion

edit: Speaking of boats - hi ya Trawler69

Haha.

How was your visit??? Was it cold then??