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I have TWO different printers, attached to my network an directly, connected to different machines.  I tried to RUN a single image through both printers and comes out blank.  However, if I print a text document it will print.  The thing that I don't get is that its able to run the black text out of the black cartage but, not when I print a picture there is no outline.  I just did a fresh install of the drivers on both of the units, since, they were not setup/installed to work with them prior. 

HP Deskjet F4440 and HP Deskjet 3520Is the OS a legit OS or a cracked bootleg?  Somewhere on the web before I saw something like this happening with a cracked version of Windows.

If you have proper drivers for that OS then it should work as intended unless install of Windows is flawed or the printer itself has an issue. Given that both printers have same issue, then its most likely something wrong with Windows, and if its a cracked version of it or one that has been infected etc then you could be chasing your tail.

A fresh install of the OS could be a test to see if you can fix it that way, assuming your using correct driver for that OS, and the OS is not a cracked version of Windows.

Digging deep, only other cause I can think of is how the spooler service ties into this to where you could have a memory issue on the system so memtest86 should be run to make sure that all is WELL with the system memory. If the buffer for the printer is getting borked BITS then it can cause strangeness. For me with a RAM issue it was random ascii characters appearing in what i was printing, but I can see it also affecting formatting etc. BUT two different machines having same issues could point back to two machines with cracked OS's running sharing the same flaw.  how old are those printers, or more to the point, how long have they been sitting idle?
what are the chances that both printers have a dodgy colour cartridge?   slim I realise for both printers to go the same way at the same time, but if they have both been mothballed for some time....

so you can print a text document (black and white) but not an image (colour) ?



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