HP Laserjet Pro - stuck initializing

Seems to be a known issue - has anyone resolved their initializing issue? I am having the same and have tried all suggestions. What are these Special Instrucitons that can only be sent via private message?

Hi @tmbluhm ,
I see that you are experiencing issues with the printer getting stuck intializing. I can help you.
What happened prior to this error message? (paper jam, changed a toner)
What is the full name and product number of your printer? How Do I Find My Model Number or Product Number?
I wasn't sure what steps you have already tried, so I am including these steps to try if you haven't already.
Disconnect the USB/Network/FAX and power the printer on Standalone.
Check and remove any packaging material inside the printer and toner.
Do a hard reset to see if that will resolve the issue.
Leave the printer on and unplug the power cable from the printer and wall outlet for 60 seconds.
Then reconnect the power cable to the printer and wall outlet rather than a surge protector.
This ensures the printer is receiving full power and may help this situation.
If the issue persists, perform a power drain by disconnecting the power cord from the back of the printer and keeping the power button pressed for 30 seconds and in case of a power switch keep the switch in ON position for 30 seconds before reconnecting the power chord.
Update the printer's firmware.
I can send a private message with some another step to try, once I know which model you have.
How is the printer connected? (USB/Ethernet/Wireless)
Please let me know.
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color laserjet Pro MFP M177fw - Printer was working for several months, now it will not print and when you power cycle it just shows initializing... but never finishes. Using wireless network connection to a Windows 7 pc.

Hello,
I have provided the URL for doing a firmware update on the printer, but do it through a USB connection. Since the printer is in a error state though, it might not detect the printer to do the update. HP Color LaserJet Pro MFP M177fw.
Select your operating system, click Submit, click the link for firmware and then click on the Download button.
I have provided some steps to try to see if we can resolve this issue.
Disconnect the USB/Network/FAX and power the printer on Standalone.
Check and remove any packaging material inside the printer and toner.
Do a hard reset to see if that will resolve the issue, if you haven't already.
Leave the printer on and unplug the power cable from the printer and wall outlet for 60 seconds.
Then reconnect the power cable to the printer and wall outlet rather than a surge protector.
This ensures the printer is receiving full power and may help this situation.
If the issue persists, perform a power drain by disconnecting the power cord from the back of the printer and keeping the power button pressed for 30 seconds and in case of a power switch keep the switch in ON position for 30 seconds before reconnecting the power chord.
I can send a private message with some another step to try.
In the forum beside your handle name just click on the envelope to view it.
How is the printer connected? (USB/Ethernet/Wireless)
What operating system are you using?
Please let me know the outcome.
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Thank You.
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HP Laserjet Pro 100 Color MFP M175nw installation issue

Hello,
I have a problem installing my HP Laserjet Pro 100 Color MFP M175nw wirelessly. Back in time when I first installed it, it took me a few installations, but suddenly it was installed. Now after a lot of tries, I still get stuck at the part where the USB cable have to be used to pass the network details to the printer. It get stuck at 15% and after a while it gives the error that I have to connect my printer, although it is plugged and the installation initially continued.
When I put my cable, Win7 is also itself installing the printer, can that be the issue?
Thanks in advance for your help!
Ewout

Hello Ewout,
I would suggest calling HP's Technical Support to see about further options for you. If you are calling within North America, the number is 1-800-474-6836 and for all other regions, click here: click here.
An HP representative has greater resources and will be able to look to see if the system has any hardware issues.
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HP Color LaserJet Pro MFP M177fw Not working with Fedora 14

Our ERP is compactible up to Fedora 14. But I newly purchased Printer(
HP Color LaserJet Pro MFP M177fw) is not working with this OS.
Give me a urgent solution

Hi @HealthITLadyRed,
I read your post and see that the printer is making noise and is stuck initializing. I would really like to be able to help you resolve this issue.
I have provided some steps to try to see if we can resolve this issue.
Check and remove any packaging material inside the printer and toner.
Disconnect the USB/Network/FAX and power the printer on Standalone.
Do a hard reset to see if that will resolve the issue.
Leave the printer on and unplug the power cable from the printer and wall outlet for 60 seconds.
Then reconnect the power cable to the printer and wall outlet rather than a surge protector.
This ensures the printer is receiving full power and may help this situation.
If the issue persists, perform a power drain by disconnecting the power cord from the back of the printer and keeping the power button pressed for 30 seconds and in case of a power switch keep the switch in ON position for 30 seconds before reconnecting the power chord.
Update the printer's firmware by a USB connection. Software and Drivers.
Select Option 2 and wait for the page to load and then select the link for firmware. This resolved the previous posters issue.
I can send a private message with another step to try.
In the forum beside your handle name just click on the envelope to view it.
How is the printer connected? (USB/Ethernet/Wireless)
What happened prior to this issue? (paper jam, changed toner) Any feedback would be appreciated.
Is this a new printer?
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Laserjet pro 100 color mfp m175

We have a number of HP LaserJet Pro 100 Color MFP M175's in our school. They are connected to the network via ethernet cable rather than wirelessly. A number of users print to them either from a Windows XP (running service pack 2) desktop or from a Windows 7 (newly built) laptop. They were working fine for a few days and then all of a sudden they may have any of the following problems:
unsupported personality error printed at the top of a lot of pages (ie you may try and print one page but hundreds of pages come out with this error).
there may be an invalid driver error on the control panel on the printer
there may be weird alien-looking characters at the top of hundreds of blank pages
initially all of the printers had the driver installed that came with the printers, when we started getting the error, we then tried running the diagnostics doctor on the hp web site, which said all the drivers were valid. We have also tried using the universal print driver from the HP support website, but still get the problem after a few days. We can make all of the errors go away by re-installing any of the above drivers, but then the problem starts happening again after a few days. The server is Windows 2003R2 running service pack 2, we have tried installing the drivers on the server too, but they won't install. Another printer was set up this week in the school office which only has people printing from Windows 7 machines and doesn't have the error - this could be because it's too soon to happen yet, or maybe because there are no Windows XP machines printing to it? (It does print through the same server as the others) Help would be greatly appreciated, we are a school and so can't afford to be wasting lots of paper, plus this is taking up all of our time rather than fixing other issues! thanks in advance

Tammy, sounds like there could be a couple things that might cause this issue. The first of which is that the RJ45 cable you are using to connect the printer might have become corrupted. I would replace that cord and see if the issue remains.
Second, I want you to see about updating the firmware from this website :
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/softwareCategory?cc=us&lc=en&dlc=en&product=5076465
If that still presents issues, you can use that same website to download the more recent drivers. I would uninstall the old version you have on the computer and then open that link and install the full feature software.
Let me know how that goes and I will get right back with you!
I hope you are having a wonderful week, and I hope that the weather where you are located is as beautiful there as it is here!
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HP LaserJet Pro 100 color MFP M175nw unable to communicate with product

Hi guys,
I've had a HP LaserJet Pro 100 color MFP M175nw for 12months now and it has worked great over my wireless network. I recently upgraded from router from a 5 year old single band router to a late model dualband wireless N router.
Since i did this my HP LaserJet Pro 100 color MFP M175nw was unable to reconnect to my new network.
I have uninstalled the drivers and have tried reinstalling the drivers but each time (after I select Connect the Product/Coonect through wireless network, have tried both Yes retrieve the wirelss settings on my computer and No I will enter the wirelss settings manually) but no matter which I select the printer is installed successfully but then gets stuck at 15% and says cannont communicate with the product.
I have disabled my firewall during the installation and have only used the USB cable when the installation has asked me to do so.
The printer is visible in control panel but each time I do a test print or send something to the printer in the sys tray the print job is shown but nothing ever happens.
The installation will work fine if I install it via the directly connect to the computer using USB option.
If I do a test print fromt he printer itself by going into the network setting, network test it prints a page that says:
Wireless On Pass
Wirelss Working Pass
Network Name SSID Found Fail
Security Fail
Your HP printer cannot find your wirelss router. The WPA authentification method on your HP has changed fromt he default setting.
Is there anyway I can edit the SSID network name and password without having to do this install process?
This is really frustrating. Just spent 3 hours with HP support which got me know where (they were reading the script the supplied me) and then when I rebooted and went to go back to online chat support the website tells me their support is only available during business hours!
Any help would be great

OK time to back up totally. I need to make sure you are following the instructions in the user guide to install this printer. Please start from scratch by uninstalling all software from your computer and outline every step to make sure it is correct.
You have to use the USB cable to set up the wireless connection.
Go here for the User Guide and all installation info. Get your drivers and troubleshooting info here too.
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/manualCategory?cc=us&dlc=en&lc=en&product=5076465
The reason we have to start over is that you started the software installation when you changed your router. You don't have to do this, but now we do.
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we are on a comany network and I guess our network won't be the problem (cisco switches for our printer lan)
in the meantime we replaced the HP Printer with a small xerox printer as we still have warranty we might give it back to vendor.
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Hi Robvale,
Welcome to the HP Forums!
From what you have described it sounds as though the print job are not leaving the print queue. I have included the document 'Can't Print? Print Jobs are Stuck in the Print Queue'. Please select you version of Mac, and follow through the steps listed.
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Hp Laserjet Pro M1530 MFP Mac OS 10.6.8

I just bought this Laserjet and have installed it correctly as far as I can see. For the Scan function according to Manual I open the HP Director and click Scan. However there is no Scan function to be found in the HP director.
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Hi Mirre,
Welcome to the HP Forums.
I see that you are having issues scanning on the 10.6. You have no scan function in the HP Director software.
I will be happy to help you.
I have provided a document for how to scan with Apple software to see if you have the same results.
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Disregard the title.
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Were you able to scan from Apple's software?
Did you run the setup assistant and were you able to scan?
What is the full name and product number of your printer? How Do I Find My Model Number or Product Number?
Is this the Laserjet Pro M1536?
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HP LaserJet Pro CM1415fn Color Multifunction Printer unable to connect to webapps, webforms

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OS: Windows 7
My printer will not print. Windows says the printer is not online. I have checked cables and tried rebooting my computer. Also turned printer off and turned it back on. My print jobs are stuck in the print que.

Hi Stickdude,
Follow the steps in the document at the link.
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?docname=c02241610&tmp_task=solveCategory&cc=us&dlc=en&la...
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HP Color LaserJet Pro MFP M177fw cannot scan or copy

My HP Color LaserJet Pro MFP M177fw cannot scan or copy. Screen on the printer just show calibrating only
Bsically an't scan or copy, the printer is just showing a message on the display of "calibrating".
Thank you for help

Hi @Ern88 , I can help you with not being able to scan or copy. The printer is showing that it is stuck calibrating.
I would do a hard reset to see if that will resolve the issue.
Leave the printer on and unplug the power cable from the printer and wall outlet for 60 seconds.
Then reconnect the power cable to the printer and wall outlet rather than a surge protector.
This ensures the printer is receiving full power and may help this situation.
Try to make a copy again.
Please check your private messages for additional steps to try.
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Doesn't feed paper. color laserjet pro mfp m177fw

I just bought the Color Laserjet Pro MFP M177fw. I removed all the packing as instructed in the installation guide.
While initializing the printer makes a strange noise. When I try to print it gives me a message to load paper. No matter how much paper I load in tray 1 it gives me the same message. I removed the paper and tray 1. Then using a torch I looked in the bin and I don't even see the white metallic rod moving when I give a print command. I suspect that there is something stopping the metalic rod from rotating. I see two black clips on both ends of the rod. Manual didn't mention it but was I suppose to take them out? Or there is another problem?
Need help.
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Hi @fkk ,
I read your post and see that the new printer is initializing and the printer makes a strange noise. You are also getting the message to "load paper". I would really like to be able to help you resolve this issue.
It sounds like there might be some more packing material inside the printer. Please check and remove any packaging material inside the printer. Here is a document for Setting Up the Printer Hardware for HP Color LaserJet Pro M177fw MFP Printers.
Disconnect the USB/Network/FAX and power the printer on Standalone.
Do a hard reset to see if that will resolve the issue.
Leave the printer on and unplug the power cable from the printer and wall outlet for 60 seconds.
Then reconnect the power cable to the printer and wall outlet rather than a surge protector.
This ensures the printer is receiving full power and may help this situation.
If the issue persists, perform a power drain by disconnecting the power cord from the back of the printer and keeping the power button pressed for 30 seconds and in case of a power switch keep the switch in ON position for 30 seconds before reconnecting the power chord.
Try and update the printer's firmware. HP Color LaserJet Pro MFP M177fw.
Please check your private messages for additional steps to try.
In the forum beside your handle name just click on the envelope to view it.
How is the printer connected? (USB/Ethernet/Wireless)
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New color laserjet pro mfp m177 will not scan or copy

Product is new. The problem is that this unit will not scan or copy. I downloaded the latest drivers, but they would not install completely. I also ran thru some trouble shooting guides on the HP website, but still it doesn't work. It tries to make a copy, but it acts like it starts and then stops without completing the function. It's almost like the scanner mechanism is stuck. Anyone ever have this problem with a brand new printer?

Hello , Thanks for posting in the HP Forums, and welcome! I understand you are unable to make a copy or scan on your new HP Color LaserJet Pro M177fw MFP. I'd like to help you with this. Firstly, do you have the printer connected directly to a wall outlet or is it in a surge protector or power bar? Even if you have been using a surge protector/power bar all this time and you feel it is not the cause, please connect it to a wall outlet just so we can eliminate the power source as the root cause. Issues when Connected to an Uninterruptible Power Supply/Power Strip/Surge Protector
In this document you will see, ISSUE: Problems or issues may arise when an HP LaserJet series printer is connected to an uninterruptible power supply (UPS), a power strip, or a surge protector
^ This is not limited to Laserjet printers. If the issue persists, I would suggest download and installing the most recent firmware for your unit. You can download the firmware update utility here:HP Color LaserJet Pro MFP M177fw Firmware UpdateNote: You will need to connect the printer via USB to update the firmware, as any interruption during the firmware update can cause more issues. If this still does not resolve the issue, please let me know if you are getting some sort of error message on the screen or any blinking lights to indicate what the problem may be. Hope this helps!

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