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Printer printing blank page on startup
Posted by Ultraglide on January 4th, 2006


I have just got a new system and moved from Win98 to XP. I am using my old
NEC SuperScript 870 laser printer. Whenever I boot up, it spits out a blank
page. It never did that with 98. Is there any way to stop it?


Posted by Simon Taylor on January 4th, 2006


Is it possible that there is a job in the print queue?

To check this go to start, printers and faxes, double click on the printer
and it should show you all the jobs, if any waiting to print. If there is a
job just select it and press the delete key.

Also you could try reseting the print spooler, go to star run, type in
services.msc and press enter, then find the print spooler and right mouse
click and choose restart.

Failing that go to the Xerox page and download the latest XP drivers

"Ultraglide" wrote:

> I have just got a new system and moved from Win98 to XP. I am using my old
> NEC SuperScript 870 laser printer. Whenever I boot up, it spits out a blank
> page. It never did that with 98. Is there any way to stop it?
>
>
>

Posted by Darrell S on January 4th, 2006


Ultraglide wrote:
> I have just got a new system and moved from Win98 to XP. I am using
> my old NEC SuperScript 870 laser printer. Whenever I boot up, it
> spits out a blank page. It never did that with 98. Is there any way
> to stop it?


If your printer is turned off at system boot up, after boot does it then
spit out the blank page when it's turned on?

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Darrell R. Schmidt
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Posted by John on January 5th, 2006


Whats your point Darrell?

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John

MCP Windows XP Professional


"Darrell S" <dumbwid@fox.com> wrote in message
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> Ultraglide wrote:
>> I have just got a new system and moved from Win98 to XP. I am using
>> my old NEC SuperScript 870 laser printer. Whenever I boot up, it
>> spits out a blank page. It never did that with 98. Is there any way
>> to stop it?

>
> If your printer is turned off at system boot up, after boot does it then
> spit out the blank page when it's turned on?
>
> --
>
> Darrell R. Schmidt
> B-58 Hustler History: http://members.cox.net/dschmidt1/
> -
>
>



Posted by Rock on January 5th, 2006


Ultraglide wrote:

> I have just got a new system and moved from Win98 to XP. I am using my old
> NEC SuperScript 870 laser printer. Whenever I boot up, it spits out a blank
> page. It never did that with 98. Is there any way to stop it?
>
>


You need to update the driver to the XP compatible one. I have the NEC
860 and have no problem with it.

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Rock
MS MVP Windows - Shell/User