http://www.dslreports.com/forum/HP-LJ-5000-is-printing-random-characters-over-many-pages-22642416 en Sat, 11 Feb 2012 07:18:45 EDT Sat, 11 Feb 2012 07:18:45 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-HP-LJ-5000-is-printing-random-characters-over-many-pages-22664175 http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-HP-LJ-5000-is-printing-random-characters-over-many-pages-22664175 Mon, 06 Jul 2009 21:33:49 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-HP-LJ-5000-is-printing-random-characters-over-many-pages-22659906
if it were a jet direct card it'd most likely spit out an error code on the lcd every now and then]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-HP-LJ-5000-is-printing-random-characters-over-many-pages-22659906 Mon, 06 Jul 2009 08:47:14 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-HP-LJ-5000-is-printing-random-characters-over-many-pages-22653642 said by 45071419:

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I will do that. Thanks again.
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You can ignore it, but the longer you go the more risk of frequent paper jams and the fuser self destructing. No big deal if that happens though, but you would just need to get the new fuser from the maintenance kit installed before you can print again.

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They all printed fine. When she reconnected the printer cable and performed test prints through Windows XP Pro, they worked fine. So something weird is going on.

She also mentioned that "printer maintenance" prompts come up on the printer display itself but was told by someone else (not sure if this was another tech) that she didn't have to worry about it for a while.
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Maybe delete the printer, all HP printer drivers (and especially all drivers for printers that are no longer installed), then reinstall the PCL5 driver.

Delete the printer drivers by going to the Printers & Faxes --> Make sure no printers ar highlighted --> File -> Server Properties --> Drivers tab and remove the printer drivers with the remove button.

Maybe also uninstall any HP software from Add/Remove programs if she had like an all in one that is no longer hooked up to the PC.

Maybe also rename her local Windows profile and start fresh as a last resort.
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Trying dropping to an LJ4 driver; or check spool settings (don't know what OS your user is on...)]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-HP-LJ-5000-is-printing-random-characters-over-many-pages-22644071 Thu, 02 Jul 2009 10:06:06 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-HP-LJ-5000-is-printing-random-characters-over-many-pages-22642754
I have some HP printers that only work across all apps with the PS driver. Some others only work with PCL 6, some PCL5e. It's a mixed bag, there's so many drivers to install.

The MS drivers
HP PCL5e
HP PCL6
HP PS
HP Universal

Both 64 and 32 bit flavors (on a Win2003 64bit file & print server)

It gets to be a little obnoxious. I have the problems like PCL6 works in Word & IE, but prints extra bold lines and really large overrun characters on excel spreadsheets & PDF's. PS Driver fixes it. I've had some printers that only printed black or white - no grayscale. Again drivers fixed that.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-HP-LJ-5000-is-printing-random-characters-over-many-pages-22642754 Wed, 01 Jul 2009 23:29:30 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-HP-LJ-5000-is-printing-random-characters-over-many-pages-22642575 http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-HP-LJ-5000-is-printing-random-characters-over-many-pages-22642575 Wed, 01 Jul 2009 22:53:10 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-HP-LJ-5000-is-printing-random-characters-over-many-pages-22642483 --
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Now, a few weeks later, the LJ 5K is printing random characters (only a few per page) and it prints out many pages any time she sends a print job to it. The user's print job never comes out correctly.

Any ideas?
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