Hey ,I am having trouble with two printers hp 710C they are printing half pages only and stops with power light blinking Ihave to switch of the power button to eject the complete paper.  I tried DELETING the printer, replaced cable, cleaned cartridge.  Is ther anyone who can help me. Thank you.Empty printing tasks. I forgot to tell that my windows is Xp  Sp2, I did purge the print jobs but to no avail and I think there is something wrong from the side of the computer because it`s the same trouble on 2 printers. TYAre these USB printers?  Have you tried them on different USB ports?  Do they require USB 2.0?  Is that what you have?

You do have the right printer driver installed, right?XP has your needed driver for that printer on-board.
You just have to may sure that the printer is properly installed.
Click on "Driver Information and Instructions" in the link below:
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/softwareList?os=228&lc=en&cc=us&dlc=en&product=59307&lang=en#
It`s not usb printer but a paralell one and just to make sure of the cable I just bought one, I deleted the printer from my computer and installed altogher from win XP drivers that are shown when you install it.   Then I went to system to make sure that everything is working. And the resusts were...Back to square one,  printing half a page and stops with the power light blinking like it`s still printing and to have the SHEET of paper out from printer I have to switch it off.I've just had the same problem but with an hp  officejet 5600. There was a print job "stuck" in the queue and although I tried a number of ways to delete this couldn't. I uninstalled and re-installed the printer USING the disc that came with the printer and this seems to have solved the problem. Hey again, There is something wrong with printer ports my printer driver is assigned to 3 ports LPT1, LPT2, and LPT3 how can I romove all three ports and install a new driver in LPT1 and I think that is the trouble. Thanks.Are they all with a check in them / can you go into your Printers and uncheck LPT 2 & 3 / reboot & check again?

BTW - By default you have 3 LPT ports.

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