Hp Laserjet 4200, Printer Virus or Software Failure?

Have been using a HP Laserjet 4200/4300 series, very few issues, very good printer.
Background:
Small office, this printer is attached to my computer but able to be used by 4 other machines on the network.
We are using everything from windows ME to Windows 7 xp.
What happened:
all day long we were printing & by the afternoon it just stopped. At that time only 2 computers had sent in print requests. Mine was sending Page prints of gov web sites using the latest version of mozilla firefox and I am running Windows 7 xp and the 2nd was sending Word Perfect docs and its on XP. In going through the Que, the printer says they all now have unspecified errors and will not print.
Printer/Proterties/General - print test page
Will not print
Hardware/Menu/Print test, cleaning, Menu map.. all print
Device is Working
Paper is full
Ink is in
Since then I have cleared the Que and sent several different types of things to print from all different types of programs.. the print manager say they all have errors.
So.. Printer Virus or Software Failure?
Any help will be greatly appreciated!!
thank you for reading. Sorry for not being more technically savvy.
Please ask for any details.

Just got off the phone with a friend (who is a lot smarter than I) and recommended turning off the printer, then truning it back on and holding down the mainuser button (the one with the check mark) and letting the printer do its thing.
just printed the test page.. so good news there. Still not sure what exactly happened..

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