Printer ready but not printing

I have a HP Deskjet F4135 all in one printer. Every once in awhile I will connect my printer to my laptop and it will say its ready to print but when I try and print it will not print it will just show in the document screen "Printing" and then occasionally it will show like "4/1" under the pages column. I have tried canceling and restarting documents and even turning my computer completely off. Please help!

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