Hp printer not working?

Question

i have an hp deskjet f4100 series and i cant print with it. the computer shows that it is there and should work. when i go to print something it says hp f4100 and beside that is hp f4100 (copy 1) and there's a copy 2 and 3 too. the printer once worked, but then i moved it and it stopped working. how do i fix it?

Answer 1

You may have unfinished jobs in Queue. See if this helps you

Start

Settings

Printers and faxes

Left click the printer icon. Here is where the prints jobs are in queue

• A lot of times you can’t clear them, so...

•Go to Start / Run and type in "services.msc" then press Enter or click OK.

In the window that opens (Services) look for "Print Spooler" on the right

Right-click "Print Spooler" and select "Properties".

Click on the "Recovery" tab and change all 3 drop-down boxes to "Restart The Service".

Make sure the 2 text boxes underneath say "1" in them.

Click Ok until you are back at the Services window, close it and you're good to go.

Go back into the properties of the "Print Spooler" tab and be sure to click Start to restart the Print Spooler service and it will restart the service immediately.

The Print spooler depends on the Remote Procedure Call (RPC) service. Is this service disabled? Go to services.msc look for RPC. Check state: Automatic

Answer 2

Try deleting all the printers.  Right click and select delete for each one.  Restart your computer with the printer connected and turned on and windows should automatically detect and reinstall it as the default printer.  It is better to do it this way to make sure that the unnecessary duplicates are completely removed.

Answer 3

safest way is , if you have the software for it only, delete all the printers and make sure you have the printer plugged in and reinstall the software, should fix it, but the hard way of sorting it would be send a test print to each copy1, copy2 ect and see which one it prints on, then make that printer the default printer.

Answer 4

As it's a USB printer, and it's been moved it's installed multiple versions of itself to multiple "virtual USB printer ports"

Try right clicking on the highest numbered copy, select properties, then click Print test page.  If that works, delete the OTHER versions of the driver (right click / delete) then rename that one (right click, rename) to remove the "copy xx) from it.

Known issue with USB printers.

Alternatively you CAN simply delete all and let windows redetect, but that will actually clutter up the registry more than it already is