computer question
Dec. 27th, 2014 10:26 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
calimacApparently I have to jump through huge hoops to get this answered at any kind of product help forum, and googling doesn't produce results that address the question, so I'll put it here.
My printer has stopped printing. It accepts printer commands and spits out sheets of paper, but they're blank. I tried different programs, still nothing.
An obvious suggestion would be that the cartridge is out of toner, but it was working fine yesterday: clear printing, no streaks or anything. I shook the cartridge to redistribute the toner; still nothing. It's possible, I suppose, that it ran clean out at exactly the moment I finished yesterday's large printing job. But before I go out and buy a new expensive cartridge, I'd like to be sure that's the problem. So what I'd like to know is:
Is there any way to tell from looking at the cartridge whether it's out of toner?
My printer has stopped printing. It accepts printer commands and spits out sheets of paper, but they're blank. I tried different programs, still nothing.
An obvious suggestion would be that the cartridge is out of toner, but it was working fine yesterday: clear printing, no streaks or anything. I shook the cartridge to redistribute the toner; still nothing. It's possible, I suppose, that it ran clean out at exactly the moment I finished yesterday's large printing job. But before I go out and buy a new expensive cartridge, I'd like to be sure that's the problem. So what I'd like to know is:
Is there any way to tell from looking at the cartridge whether it's out of toner?
