Photosmart C6280 stopped responding to network printing queue

photosmart C6280 connected to network with ethernet cable -- print jobs stuck in queue and printer does not respond.
Suggestions?

JoeRiley wrote:
boykot wrote:
to remove the print jobs stuck on qeue, go to the printers and faxes
double click on the printer driver
a window will come up
click on printer button
click cancel all documents
you might also need to restart the printer spooler
to do that, click on start
click run
type services.msc
look for print spooler and right click on it and click restart
Good Luck!!!
keep me informed please...
Re-spooling sounds a good idea, but I have Vista Home premium on my PC, and clicking on 'Start' doesn't yield a 'Run' option, so I don't seem to have an option to type in ''services.msc" . Grateful for any suggestions.
Well you should see a Search box at the bottom of the Start menu. It acts like the Run box. You can type 'services.msc' or simply 'Services' in it. Or, you can also press the Win + R keys to bring up the Run window.
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Here is something I need to confirm:
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2. Does this issue occur when printing a text file?
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Message was edited by: Daniel Stranathan

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Phenomena is consistent with 4 different laptops, one running ubuntu, others Windows.
Our computers never loose connection on other networks.
I tried many different router settings, including factory defaults, I always get this problem.
Situation is unbearable. I ended up running a 50 ft cable accross the house because I just can't waste all that time restarting my connection every 5 minutes and waiting for it to connect.
Can I conclude the router is physically broken? I didn't keep the original packaging so I'm not sure I can send it back, beside I can't afford to go without an internet connection for 2 weeks, waiting for a router...

Did you reset the router after upgrading the router's firmware....If not then,Press and hold the reset button for 30 seconds...Release the reset button...Unplug the power cable from your router, wait for 30 seconds and re-connect the power cable...Now re-configure your router...

Solaris Print Queue

Dears,
I cannot cancel some old print jobs from a solaris 9 machine, giving the following error.
root@srvr1 # cancel LLCPRN-55243
cannot dequeue LLCPRN-55243
Does it mean that print queue corrupted?
Please advice me in this regard.
Thanks,
Sal.

Hi,
You can use lpadm.
A Basic Network Printer Queue
# lpadmin -p hp5 -o protocol=bsd,dest=10.0.0.10 -v /dev/null -m netstandard -T unknown -I any
# enable hp5
# accept hp5
null

Photosmart C6280 print hung in queue since new wifi network installed.

I am running Windows 7 on my laptop. I just created a new wifi network and my Photosmart C6280 is attached via cable to the router. Now my print doc from my laptop goes wirelessly to the print queue but does not print. How can I make it begin to print?

rscarbrough wrote:
Yes, it is the selected default printer.
1. Photosmart C6280 All In One
2. Windows 7
3. AT&T U-verse Arris NVG 589
4. When I give the print command to a doc it goes to the print queue but does not print. How do I correct this?
Here something in the router is the printer IP set so that the computer knows what IP to print to? I know on my network printer with a Netgear router I have to set two IP address for both printer so that when I install printer software it knows where to find the printer and set the right print driver to the right printer. Did you do that? I could be that it can't find the printer on the network so that is why it gets stuck in the queue. You have to make a Static IP printer address so the print software knows where to send the print command to.
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Hp photosmart C7280 says "stopped" in print queue and won't print!

I just bought an hp photosmart C7280 today. It was a pretty simple setup with the actual printer and network and all. i download the updated driver from the hp website and all seemed kosher there too. now i click "print" and on the print queue page it says "stopped" and won't print!
ahhh please help? is this a good printer with macs anyways? it seemed kinda loud during the setup...

I too have gone through most of the problems described here but have finally been able to get the c7280 working properly, yet I'm still not very happy with the solution.
For connectivity reasons, I wanted to connect the aio to my network via ethernet cable directly to my router. While my computers will access the network wirelessly, I wanted the printer to have a solid connection. Unfortunately, I was never (and still can't) get it to work properly using this connection. What finally did work was using the wireless connection in the printer to connect to the network.
Why this would work wirelessly and not while directly connected is something no one has been able to explain. I still have the printer right next to my wireless router to interference doesn't seem to be a problem and it seems fast enough, but the fact that I can't get it working properly with a "less technically challenged" method, really bothers me. What if I didn't have a wireless network? While wireless is great, if there was an easy solution to have all my desktops connected via ethernet, I'd prefer it (easy being not having a bunch a cables around and perhaps a pre-wired network in my home!)
Anyway, I hope everyone who has this machine gets the problem worked out. Unfortunately, knowing what I know now, I don't think I would buy this one again unless the software was rock solid. Physically the unit works well, but is a little loud I admit and went through my black cartridge pretty fast even though I used in saving settings such as fast draft, etc.
Just as a side note, the HP support guy in Canada was fairly annoying. When we still couldn't get it working properly via ethernet, he insisted it must be a problem with Apple or a conflict with a program I have installed, etc,etc. and told me that every one of his customers that has Leopard also has this unit working 100% properly. I politely told him he needs to add me as his first failure!
OK, enough rant. Try connecting wirelessly and see if that works. I would uninstall the current printers as suggested, but also clear out the printer cache. Do this by right clicking in the add a printer box area and choose reset printing system. If all else fails and you upgraded to Leopard from Tiger, then......gulp...... uninstall Leopard and revert back to Tiger. Under Tiger, both my macs worked perfectly connected via ethernet printer connection. Good luck.

Photosmart C6280 stopped responding to network printing queue

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