Sometimes only prints half a page....

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Maria & Bill Rand

Hello.
I have a HP2110 all in one printer and am very pleased with it overall. I
have been refilling my cartridges for about a year and it is a great
savings.

I am having one problem with this printer, once in a while it will spit out
a page when it is only half printed. I am not sure what causes this I have
tried to reinstall it and a few other things, but it is still doing this.

Any help or suggestions are greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Bill.
 
On my system it happened when I'd run low on disk space for virtual memory.
Rebooting the system wouldn't help if I was really short of disk space.
Haven't had it since I jumped from a 30 GB to an 80 GB drive.
 
I have 768 megs of ram, is this not enough?
I guess it depends on what is running in the background also.

I have increased the virtual memory to 2Gigs I will see if that helps.

Thanks
 
Maria & Bill Rand said:
Hello.
I have a HP2110 all in one printer and am very pleased with it overall. I
have been refilling my cartridges for about a year and it is a great
savings.

I am having one problem with this printer, once in a while it will spit out
a page when it is only half printed. I am not sure what causes this I have
tried to reinstall it and a few other things, but it is still doing this.
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That may be because either the page you're sending is too large for
the memory of the printer (in which case either reduce the size or
resolution of the image; or buy some printer RAM) or the data is not
flowing to the printer quickly enough, maybe a software problem, such
as runing a processor intensive task at the same time.
 
Make sure there's enough DISK SPACE on the drive you're swap file's on for
other temp files as well. Photoshop, for instance, may create several
temporary copies of files it's working on - can eat of a couple gigs of disk
space in a hurry. And get a copy of the free version of Disk Keeper and use
it to defrag your drive after you've cleaned off all the temp files you can
find. Where to look for them depends on the version of Windows you're
running.
 
Maria & Bill Rand said:
I have 768 megs of ram, is this not enough?
I guess it depends on what is running in the background also.

I have increased the virtual memory to 2Gigs I will see if that helps.
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Windows uses temporary files (usually in the c:\temp directory) for
spooling to the printer, not RAM or virtual memory.

If space was a problem you'd know it as just about every app would
complain or crash.
 
Not so. Some create very little in the way of temporary files. Photoshop,
for example, can create multiple copies of an image you're working on. If
it's a 140MB tif file then you can burn through your RAM pretty fast.
Generally the more graphics oriented a application is the more virtual
memory you'll use.

I know that Photoshop used to hang my system because it ran out of disk
space whereas IE, Word, and everything else ran just fine.
 
Hello.
I am having one problem with this printer, once in a while it will spit
out a page when it is only half printed.
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Try turning off print spooling, printing directly to the printer instead.

Jon.
 
SayItAgain said:
Not so. Some create very little in the way of temporary files. Photoshop,
for example, can create multiple copies of an image you're working on. If
it's a 140MB tif file then you can burn through your RAM pretty fast.
Generally the more graphics oriented a application is the more virtual
memory you'll use.
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That's all true, but I don't see how it contradicts what I wrote, or
what it has to do with the priinting problem of the OP.
 
The point I was trying to make was that PE, being a memory intensive
graphics package, will need more temporary disk space. And that includes
PE's internal buffers as well as the Windows virtual memory swap area.

I know because I've had PE print 1/2 pages and hang my system. When I
investigate it turned out to be disk space. Once I deleted old temp files
and freed up space PE worked ok.
 
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