For the last few days I haven't been able to get my printer to do jack squat. All it does is sit and blink the power light continuously, you can't get it to follow commands at all. First I tried turning it off on the printer itself. Nothing. Then I tried turning it off through the surge protector. Nothing. And that's the one that blows my mind because even with that it keeps blinking! I've tried unplugging it directly from the power source which causes the blinking to stop. I wait a few minutes and plug it back in. It's still blinking!
I can't even get the motor which moves the cartridges to activate!
I'll be honest, I'm not the most brilliant person when it comes to printer technology, so if anyone can give me a hint as to what's going on I'd really appreciate it because it's driving me NUTS. It's also rather time consuming to have to go all the way to the LCC lab at the college just to print my papers because my own printer is being too much of a dick.
Printer's being a pain in the butt
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What brand and model is it?
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It's an HP Deskjet 5940.
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Is only the power light on and blinking, or are others on or blinking as well?
Edit: Alright, I gotta go. So this is the best I can do.
http://bizsupport1.austin.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=c00394958
There are different light combinations that mean different errors. Try to find the one that matches yours in the link above and follow the instructions to fix it. Hope that helps.
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Thanks for the help. I don't see my issue on the list though.
While it does mention the solidarity of the power button blinking it diagnoses it as the printer preparing to print as it recieves the information. However it's been doing it for roughly 3-4 days now so I think something else is up with it.I'll probably go down to staples later and see if they know what the heck it's doing.
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ha ha good ol HP. (not) i was dumb and bought an HP printer too. I should know better. uninstall the software and re-instal it. that should work. if not, we can try googling your problem. oh ya! and DON'T do any software updates.
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We tried the un/reinstall, it didn't work. Me and my mom are going to staples tomorrow, we're leaning toward an epson printer/scanner