Hi folks,
I have Canon BJC-250 printer and it does not want to print since I pushed the "Turn off" button in printer properties (Windows XP).
Before that Windows detected it through Plug and Play, but now does not.
I tried many hints (Waste Ink reset, printer reset, changing cartridges, BIOS SETTINGS) but no one helps.
Printer turns on with Power button on it, and the LED showing everything is OK, but when I want to print something, it displaying me the tray icon in taskbar, and displaying the bits sending, everything goes out OK, but printer does not print ANYTHING!

Any usefull idea, or whatever else what helps me from that c**p situation?

Thank you!

(Sorry for my English )Have you tried to uninstall and reinstall the software
that came with the printer?Yea, of course, I´ve tried that, but nothing. I aslo tried to instal Windows XP drivers and original canon drivers, but nothing changed.
Printer doe not print anything Does the printer respond at all when you try to print something?Do you get any error messages / does the paper feed thru / tried setting it up on another computer / or is it just not responding with anything?

Alan <>< Thank GUYS for quick replies!

No printer has not responding at all. When I turn it on with Power on it, it will initialize and goes to ready mode, but when I want to print something it doe not do anything, windows showing the printing process, but does not do anything.
No error messages in OS, no error messages from printer (by LED or beeps).

Printer acts like "everything is OK" and windows also, but it does not print anything.

In SERVICE mode of printer I tried to print status TEXT and seems like this:

1. Printer Control Mode: BJ
2. Paper selection: LTR
3. Print mode: High Quality
4. Smoothing: Disabled
5. Reduction: 1/1 (Disabled)
6. Automatic power on: Disabled
7. Automatic power off: Disabled
8. Font: Courier
9. Code Page: 437
10. Page Length: 11inch
11. Character Set: SET1
12. Text Scale: Disabled
13. Download buffer: Disabled
14. Receive buffer size: 40KB
15. Automatic line feed: CR=CR
16. Automatic carriage return: LF=LF
17. Alternate graphics mode: Disabled
18. International character set: -
19. Installed cartridge type: black BJ cartridge
20. Printer Preset status: USA-BJ

I also downloaded BJ setup, utility program which runs just in DOS mode for adjusting these (up-written) settings. But when I press "Send data to printer" it seems to send it OK, but when I print again the status text, nothing changed.Is this a parallel printer? Has it worked with this computer in the past? Does Device Manager show LPT1 port as working properly? What BIOS settings did you experiment with? Can you try this printer on another computer? Yes, this is the paralell printer, LPT1 is showing in Device Manager, in the past the printer worked fine with my computer (Windows XP), now it does not work just only on my PC, but does not work also on friends notebook, and in the past it worked fine also on notebook.
I experiment with paralell port settings (ECP, EPP, ECP+EPP, Normal), but my endurance overrun and I loaded the Default BIOS settings. I do not believe it is in BIOS.

Thank for all your replies! I appreciate your help!If you haven't searched Canon's website for info, here's a starting point for the BJC 250: Consumer Products Home :: Support :: BJC-250 Series

The page has a LINK to their Knowledge Base or to send an email inquiry:
http://www.usa.canon.com/consumer/controller?act=SupportMailWSSSAct&fcategoryid=230&modelid=6729

Other than that, I don't know what to suggest. I think your printer may be faulty and you may have to replace it.