Printer troubles, any ideas?

[Sluggo]

An Asus P3V4X mainboard, a Canon BJC-5000 printer, Win98SE. To print a document, I have to hit the print button about 4 times. The first 3 times it will give the error that unable to read response from the printer, check to make sure its turned on...yada yada yada. $th time it catches no problem and prints fine. Printer drivers are current. Is maybe the printer port dying?

 

[hausdave]

Do you have it connected via USB or parallel? If parallel do you have the type of cable specified in the manual?

 

[Cenalian]

If its parallel, I agree with what hausdave said. You may have just boughten a cheap parallel cable, assuming it will work, instead of the proper IEEE cable, which is at worst "recommended" for newer printers.

Sounds like a connection problem, somewhere on the printer side. Make sure the cable is snug with the printer.