Posted August 03, 2021

timppu
Favorite race: Formula__One
Registered: Jun 2011
From Finland

Orkhepaj
SuperStraight Win10 Groomer Smasher
Registered: Apr 2012
From Hungary
Posted August 03, 2021
yep especially covid , so better to wash your hands

Enebias
0451
Registered: Aug 2013
From Italy
Posted August 03, 2021
True legends never die! XD

pds41
New User
Registered: May 2009
From United Kingdom
Posted August 03, 2021

Nothing quite beats the pants off the savings you get from having to buy a toner cartridge once every...well, we still haven't had need to buy a new one.
I'd sooner brave the trials of Dante's Inferno than ever deal with an inkjet or Windows printing ever again.

dnovraD
2023-08-14: Remember the Spaces!
Registered: Jul 2012
From United States
Posted August 03, 2021


pds41
New User
Registered: May 2009
From United Kingdom
Posted August 03, 2021



Orkhepaj
SuperStraight Win10 Groomer Smasher
Registered: Apr 2012
From Hungary
Posted August 03, 2021
low rated



Breja
You're in my spot
Registered: Apr 2012
From Poland
Posted August 03, 2021
I think the far more interesting question is: can a virus have a printer?

Mortius1
Hobbes is no traitor
Registered: Dec 2013
From Australia
Posted August 03, 2021
Refrigerators can have viruses.
This article was published in 2014. Internet enabled devices are much more prevalent now. Security hasn't improved much, so things have got much worse since then. After all, when was the last time you ran a virus scan on your doorbell?
This article was published in 2014. Internet enabled devices are much more prevalent now. Security hasn't improved much, so things have got much worse since then. After all, when was the last time you ran a virus scan on your doorbell?

WinterSnowfall
Bastard Lunatic
Registered: Apr 2012
From Romania
Posted August 03, 2021
Please watch this educational video. It will explain everything you ever need to know about printers.

frogthroat
Look behind you, a three headed monkey!
Registered: Apr 2018
From Germany

borisburke
Old User
Registered: Jun 2018
From United Kingdom

§pec†re
Reeeeeeeeeee!!!
Registered: Sep 2008
From United Kingdom
Posted August 03, 2021
Toners poison the atmosphere. Those printers should be thrown in the bin and dot matrix brought back.

Orkhepaj
SuperStraight Win10 Groomer Smasher
Registered: Apr 2012
From Hungary

PixelBoy
New Loser
Registered: Jun 2009
From Finland
Posted August 03, 2021

Not knowing the details, and how drivers etc. on your computer/printer setup work, I could make an educated guess that something in those documents gets so "heavy" on those pages that for whatever reason the printer buffer can't handle it, the printer no longer receives clear instructions on what to do, and it halts.
You can test this (if you already haven't) by inserting only a single sheet of paper into the printer, and then choosing to print only those selected difficult pages. If they print normally, then there's no virus or anything specific preventing printing those pages.
I don't know how flexible your printing software is, but you can also try things like printing those pages in reversed order, and see if the same problem, or some new problems appear.
The problem can also be double-sided printing, and your printer for some reason can't flip the paper correctly. Then you can just manually re-feed the other side in, and that should fix it. If it always happens with same pages, then it's a very strange coincidence, but theoretically possible.