This has been an ongoing problem that sometimes I luck out and can correct somehow. I have a Toshiba Satelite computer and my HP psc2175xi printer has been hooked up to it for at least a year. Often when I shut the printer down, when I turn it back on, it does it's initial few noises, then goes into a repetative clicking of something inside it. I can print a document sometimes while it is clicking but whenever it finishes clicking, it gives an error message and won't do anything else like print from the computer. It will often print from the button on the printer though. It was scanning but now it says there is trouble communicating with the scanner.
What I've done already is disconnected the printer, turned the printer off, turned the computer off,then reinstalled the program for the printer, turned the computer back on, uninstalled the program, and then the printer. I've done all these actions in various order as well, and I've changed usb ports around too.
The first problem I need to work on is what the clicking malfunction is (about 60-100seconds worth) when I initially doesn't work. Any ideas out there?
Desperately,
Margie
