Everthing printing onto the same page

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My HP Laserjet 1015 recently started printing everything onto one
sheet of paper!

Amazingly, it does it very quickly. For instance, I go to print a five
page report and after five seconds a sheet comes out, with all five
pages overprinted onto the one sheet. What a mess.

I've tried a differnet USB cable, swopping to parallel printer cable
(as the printer has both inputs), deleting the driver, registry
entries etc and reinistalling. Nothing works.

Other printers on this computer work OK.

Has anyone had a similar experience?
 
philphil said:
My HP Laserjet 1015 recently started printing everything onto one
sheet of paper!
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I've read that HP had developed an ingenious ink saving system whereby
it recouped ink used in printhead cleaning back into the cartridges, or
something like that. Very clever! But printing everything onto ONE sheet
of paper may just be little too much "efficiency". ;-)

Sorry, I can't help you, but the Right Honourable Bob Headrick, MS MVP
Printing/Imaging for HP will most likely soon post a helpful comment.
Hang in there - and keep your printed articles short!

-Taliesyn
 
Thanks for your post, Taliesyn but this is a laser printer, so I don't
think that the ink cartridge comments apply, even though they are
interesting. Thanks, Philip
 
Taliesyn said:
I've read that HP had developed an ingenious ink saving system whereby
it recouped ink used in printhead cleaning back into the cartridges, or
something like that. Very clever! But printing everything onto ONE sheet
of paper may just be little too much "efficiency". ;-)

Sorry, I can't help you, but the Right Honourable Bob Headrick, a retired HP Employee
MS MVP
Printing/Imaging for HP will most likely soon post a helpful comment.
Hang in there - and keep your printed articles short!

-Taliesyn
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philphil wrote:

Thanks for your post, Taliesyn but this is a laser printer, so I don't think that the ink cartridge comments apply, even though they are interesting. Thanks, Philip


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On Jul 15, 1:53 pm, Taliesyn <[email protected]> wrote:



philphil wrote:



My HP Laserjet 1015 recently started printing everything onto one sheet of paper!



I've read that HP had developed an ingenious ink saving system whereby it recouped ink used in printhead cleaning back into the cartridges, or something like that. Very clever! But printing everything onto ONE sheet of paper may just be little too much "efficiency". ;-) Sorry, I can't help you, but the Right Honourable Bob Headrick, MS MVP Printing/Imaging for HP will most likely soon post a helpful comment. Hang in there - and keep your printed articles short! -Taliesyn



Amazingly, it does it very quickly. For instance, I go to print a five page report and after five seconds a sheet comes out, with all five pages overprinted onto the one sheet. What a mess.



I've tried a differnet USB cable, swopping to parallel printer cable (as the printer has both inputs), deleting the driver, registry entries etc and reinistalling. Nothing works.



Other printers on this computer work OK.



Has anyone had a similar experience?
 
My HP Laserjet 1015 recently started printing everything onto one
sheet of paper!

Amazingly, it does it very quickly. For instance, I go to print a five
page report and after five seconds a sheet comes out, with all five
pages overprinted onto the one sheet. What a mess.

I've tried a differnet USB cable, swopping to parallel printer cable
(as the printer has both inputs), deleting the driver, registry
entries etc and reinistalling. Nothing works.

Other printers on this computer work OK.

Has anyone had a similar experience?
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I don't have any direct experience with the problem and I have more
questions than answers. You've done all the usual stuff. I wonder what
happens when you print only one sheet. Does it print properly and
eject the paper OK? Could you print a five page document one page at a
time? (Just as a test of course.) I was thinking along the line that
the sensor that measures ejection of the paper was stuck so that it
behaved like it was always ready for the next sheet. Could something
be jammed in there?
 
Yes, it will print one sheet at a time and eject it. So, I could print
a report one page at a time. It would just be a bit tedious to do that
for everything!
I'll check when I get back home whether something is jammed in there.
That's a good idea.
 
philphil said:
My HP Laserjet 1015 recently started printing everything onto one
sheet of paper!

Amazingly, it does it very quickly. For instance, I go to print a five
page report and after five seconds a sheet comes out, with all five
pages overprinted onto the one sheet. What a mess.

I've tried a differnet USB cable, swopping to parallel printer cable
(as the printer has both inputs), deleting the driver, registry
entries etc and reinistalling. Nothing works.

Other printers on this computer work OK.

Has anyone had a similar experience?
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Phil
This has been reported recently on several forums.
Try this one, it may help.
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/bizsupport/questionanswer.do?threadId=1093745

Tony
MS MVP Printing/Imaging
 
From what I know of laser printers, this can't be a mechanical problem.
It is either a driver, software or firmware issue. If I am
understanding this correctly, all the data is being dumped into the
buffer together as one page. and then it is creating the raster of all
of them together and printing it. It is as though the memory in the
printer is somehow superimposing all the raster images onto one memory
location, rather than placing a divider between each page of data.

My gut almost says this isn't possible, but I suppose some very weird
firmware error in the printer, or even something very weird in the
driver might cause this.

I would remove the printer driver from the computer and reinstall it,
and see what happens.

If you have extra memory in the printer, I would try removing it and see
if that cures anything.

Are you sure it is the actual pages you are trying to print, and not
perhaps some group of "stuff" stuck in the print buffer memory?

Try unplugging the printer for 15 minutes and then plug it back in.


This seems like a very strange phenomenon, or, I'm perhaps
misunderstanding what is occurring.

Art
 
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