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  • Oct 24, 2007, 12:38 PM
    DinosaurHelper
    HP 6L prints only infinite number codes
    I run Windows XP. I have an HP 6L laser printer. It worked fine for me, and the other day I moved it physically. It worked for a few days after the move, then the bottom half of the letters of words printed wasn't matching the top half. Then it just came out in illegible symbols. Is this a virus? Did I damage something when moving it? Is it a driver problem?
    I had the printer test its test page and it came out great, I had the driver print the test page, and it came out unreadable symbols, so I uninstalled the driver and got the newest fanciest driver from HP online. It didn't help, now it prints beautiful letters and numbers when I run the test page (through the CU) or when I try to print my word documents. It is an endless string of numbers and letters, and I have to unplug it, cancel print jobs, take out the pper (boy have I wasted a ton!)
    Could it be my printer cable? I have virus protection, so I would hope something hadn't gotten through, but I have scanned the computer a few times and never found anything. Help!! :eek:
  • Oct 24, 2007, 01:09 PM
    charlotte234s
    It doesn't sound like a virus, but maybe messed up printing settings on the document you are printing? Try using another word program to see if that helps. It's not fun dealing with printers, I know.. I hate when mine does dumb stuff. =P
  • Oct 24, 2007, 08:05 PM
    donf
    Hi,

    No the printer is working fine. It is proabaly a setting inside of Word that is mucking everything up. I can do some quick testing tomorrow but I pretty sure that's where your villain is.
  • Oct 29, 2007, 06:16 AM
    donf
    Okay. There are two possible causes.

    1) Someone was playing with the printer and managed to get it into "Hex trace mode".

    Word was lefdt in "Symbol" Mode/ To change that, start Word and look under the tools menu. Find Symbols and unclick it..

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