test page

Printing a single diagnostic page is often the fastest way to confirm a printer is healthy, correctly installed, and communicating with Windows 11 — this guide walks through every practical way to print a test page, what the results mean, and a step‑by‑step troubleshooting playbook for when the...

3 year old printer has worked fine until recently. It started printing lines - voids - thru the words. I did a nozzle check - a cleaning - a deep cleaning - I then printed a test page and nothing printed at all except the image of a printer and the words, windows test page, at the top of the...

I have been using my Brother HL-2170W printer for quite sometime now with a setup over USB. Everything was working fine. I recently tried to update my Brother HL-2170W to allow access over the network. I discovered that there are 2 options either wireless or ethernet but not both. I ran the...

I have a Windows XP machine and a Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit machine on my network. Attached to the Windows 7 machine is a HP 1050 printer. I have setup network printing and there are no error messages when I print from the XP machine but there is no printer action. When I print from the...

I have been using this printer with this notebook for long time. I changed HomeGroup sharring now when I send a test page to the printer it doesn't print. The printer says Ready to Print. The test page arrives in the print que, but the printer dosn't start. I go to Device & Printer, click on...

Hello, We recently upgraded our home computer, a Dell Latitude E6500, from Windows XP to Windows 7. Everything is working fine except for the installation of our printer, an HP Officejet 6310. I downloaded the full feature software and drivers and successfully installed them, even printed a...

Hi I have Laser printer Samsung CLP300 It prints the test page but will not print from any other software, EG photoshop, Offic Word. I have all the latest drivers for windows 7 64bit and the troubleshooter finds no errors. Kindly help. Not been around for a while as renovations to house and...

Hi guys, I just recently installed windows 7 64-bit. I have HP deskjet 710c connected to my computer thru a USB cable. (Parallel to USB Cable Conversion) My issue is not a DRIVER ISSUE (i think), because it was installed successfuly from Windows 7 and the DEVICE STATUS says: "This...

I have installed & tested my Xerox 6110 on Netgear DG834N router. Office 2007 will print anything from Dell Vista laptop. Dell Windows 7 laptop will print test page. When trying to print fromm qffice 2007 I get the message 'Windows cannot print due to a problem with current printer...

Hoping this is the correct place for some help on this. Hp1220C > usb > wps54gu2 print server > windows7 x64 Typical setup would not work with print server (had to manually configure...pings fine) Current drivers for 1220C are installed. Can ping the print server from windows. Can't print...

Just installed Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit (Version 6.1.7600 Build 7600). It works great with one exception: I have a HP Color LaserJet 1600, which worked like a charm until I switched to Windows 7 from XP. It takes several hours for a 3 MB doc to start printing. Test pages take about 50 mins. I...

Hi, I am erating an HP tc1320ca, and have been using the dell printer in question from vista with no issues whatsoever. After upgrading to windows 7 I began to have problems with the spooler, which I resolved by making some changes to dependent services and whatnot. Running the troubleshooter...

Amazing, I had no problems getting this printer hooked up with the Beta or RC, but now with the RTM it just won't work. I can install the driver from the MS catalogue, and get a pretty icon in the Devices & Printers panel. If I right click on it I see all the relevant settings for this printer...

:confused: Ok, So i've got a technet Windows 7 final release (64but Ultimate). I have an Hp Laserjet p2015x that I use over the network. I can access its web interface and can ping the printer. I've downloaded and tried 2 different Vista 64 Drivers for it but still can't get it to print. The...

Hi all I've a big issue on installing a network printer. My company use a Printer management system called CEPS. If I use the standard CEPS tool to install the printer the printer is checked as installed for a while and then unchecked. Then I tried the standard windows procedure to install the...

I have an HP Laserjet 4L. Windows Vista and XP automatically find the software and install it correctly. Unfortunately, HP drivers are no longer available and HP says the drivers are in XP/Vista and they won't post the software for download. My environment: Home network, the HP printer is...

I have been battling this network printer issue since 7000 became available. This may work with other brands of printers as well. I am currently running 7022. I have an HP LaserJet 1018 connected locally via USB. Printing locally worked fine. The problem was trying to get remote machines...

CD won't install printer software. Says upgrade os to xp or vista. Windows 7 recognized the wireless printer and downloaded driver asked to print test page. No response.