XP won't print unless I reboot

[Guest retroguybilly@gmail.com]

Running XP standard and the printer is a Canon PC1200/iC D700.

Printer works well most of the time, but after the computer has been

running for awhile it won't print unless I reboot. Canon says there

is no problem with their driver and it has not been updated. Any

ideas?

 

Thanks.

 

retro

[Guest John John (MVP)]

Re: XP won't print unless I reboot

 

Look in the Event Log to see if any errors are recorded.

 

John

 

retroguybilly@gmail.com wrote:

> Running XP standard and the printer is a Canon PC1200/iC D700.

> Printer works well most of the time, but after the computer has been

> running for awhile it won't print unless I reboot. Canon says there

> is no problem with their driver and it has not been updated. Any

> ideas?

>

> Thanks.

>

> retro

[Guest Nightowl]

Re: XP won't print unless I reboot

 

retroguybilly@gmail.com wrote on Wed, 20 Aug 2008:

>Running XP standard and the printer is a Canon PC1200/iC D700.

>Printer works well most of the time, but after the computer has been

>running for awhile it won't print unless I reboot. Canon says there

>is no problem with their driver and it has not been updated. Any

>ideas?

>

 

Hi retro

 

Is it a USB printer? If so, it might be an idea to check the properties

of the USB root hub in Device Manager. On the Power Management tab, is

"Allow the computer to turn off this device to save power" checked? If

it is, uncheck it and see if that solves the problem.

--

Nightowl

[Guest Bob I]

Re: XP won't print unless I reboot

 

Have you tried stopping and restarting the printer? Is it a USB attached

printer? Is the USB port being powered off to save power? You can force

the USB ports to NOT power down in Device Manager.

 

retroguybilly@gmail.com wrote:

> Running XP standard and the printer is a Canon PC1200/iC D700.

> Printer works well most of the time, but after the computer has been

> running for awhile it won't print unless I reboot. Canon says there

> is no problem with their driver and it has not been updated. Any

> ideas?

>

> Thanks.

>

> retro

[Guest witan]

Re: XP won't print unless I reboot

 

On Aug 20, 5:33 pm, retroguybi...@gmail.com wrote:

> Running XP standard and the printer is a Canon PC1200/iC D700.

> Printer works well most of the time, but after the computer has been

> running for awhile it won't print unless I reboot.  Canon says there

> is no problem with their driver and it has not been updated.  Any

> ideas?

>

> Thanks.

>

> retro

 

I use an HP Deskjet printer. Once in a while, I have had a problem

similar to yours with the Canon printer. In such incidents, I found

that the print command had actually started the HP printer as a

"process", which could be seen in the Task Manager. Normal behaviour

is restored if I terminate the process in the Task Manager and retry

printing.