Problem print all pages on my HP Laserjet 1320 from my Mac

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Problem print all pages on my HP Laserjet 1320 from my Mac

I am having a strange printing problem.

Happens in almost any program (Mail / Excel /Preview/Word/TextEdit/etc.). I can ask it to print a one page document. It spools, the printer flashes. The computer said it is done but nothing printed. On the same document, if I tell it to print 2 copies of the one page document, it will print one page sometimes and two pages other times. When printing long multipage documents it will sometimes not print the last page. It is almost as if the needs to be something at the end of the print job to push the last bit along to the printer and complete the print job. It only started happening 3-4 months ago. Now I have to check everything I print to make sure it is all there. This printer is connected to my Mac Mini via USB.

If I send the same print jobs to the company network printer....everything prints fine. (Kyocera - copier/printer/scanner/fax combo unit)

Here is some info on My system.

Mac Mini 2.3 GHZ i5 / 4GB memory

OS X 10.9.5

Printer is HP Laserjet 1320

I have deleted and reinstalled the printer several times and no joy.

Mac mini, OS X Mavericks (10.9.5)

Posted on Jan 6, 2015 10:29 AM

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Answer 1

kaybet

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Jan 2, 2017 3:34 PM in response to Jeremiah53

Thanks! This worked perfectly for my HP 1032N, too. I'm on Mac 10.12.2 and I was getting various error messages ("ERROR: MemoryFull") despite having 144 MB of printer memory and having done a hard reset. Once I changed to the "Generic PCL Laser Printer" driver, everything is working again, and you actually get a real time % complete message so you can see your files being spooled to the printer.

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Charllly

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Feb 23, 2015 12:56 PM in response to KGB-Blue

I've also had problems with the HP 1320 and my Mac. Some things print, while others just give a blinking green light and then it goes off. This recently happened to me while trying to print a series of labels from Word. Giving up on the HP, I decided to print the labels off my inkjet printer and placed a number a labels in the printer and hit print for 100 copies. Since I had being doing some other things in-between, I didn't notice that the print select had also gone to my default printer the HP. Suddenly, thinking the inkjet was to print the labels, the HP starts printing those labels. I then noticed that the HP was the printer selected, but I was at a loss to figure out why it suddenly had started to actually print the item that I was previously unable to do. I finally determined that when I tried printing to the HP with the initial (1) copy it would not print; if I changed that number to (2) it would print one copy; if (3) I would get 2 copies; thus the print was giving exactly one less copy than I selected; thus when I select (1) copy it reads it as 0, will blink green and give me nothing. Give it a try.

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mauro.l

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Mar 15, 2015 4:58 PM in response to Charllly

Hi Charlly,

I have also the same problem using HP 1320 and my Mac mini using OS X 10.10.2

I tried to print 2 copies instead of 1 and I got one copy printed. At least, it worked.

Thanks for your post.

Regards.

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Answer 4

Apr 15, 2015 7:16 AM in response to KGB-Blue

Hi KGB-Blue,

I'm not sure if this fix will work for you, but I was able to just resolve this issue on a Macbook Pro 2014 running 10.10.2. I setup the printer to use the Generic PCL Driver instead of the PostScript or the actual HP LaserJet 1320 driver. After that, everything worked perfectly.

One also artifact I found is that when using the PS or HP drivers, if you looked at the queue while sending a print job, it would sit at "Connecting to Printer" and then the job would go through, but print everything but the last page. When I set it up using the PCL driver, the print queue actually showed each individual page's progress as it was sent to the printer. As in, Page 1 - 100%, Page 2 - 100%, etc.

Hope this helps!

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