Samsung ML-3050 won't print labels

[mtillbrook]

Samsung ML-3050

 

This is a really strange one! This printer will print any documents quite happily but, when you try and print labels to it it refuses. As soon as the printer receives the file, the red light comes on and nothing else happens. You need to switch the thing off and then back on again before anythign else will happen.

 

When I say labels, all it is is a word document formatted to print labels so nothing complicated at all. Its really weird.

 

Any thoughts?

[hakko]

Check default settings on the printer? Something should be set to auto but isn't? margins?

[hakko]

Steady red light =

• A paper jam has occurred. To solve the

problem, see page 9.1.

• The front cover is open. Close the front

cover.

• There is no paper in the tray. Load paper in

the tray.

• The toner cartridge installed is not a genuine

cartridge, and you selected Stop at the

NonGenuine Toner prompt. See page 9.7.

• The lifespan of the toner cartridge is

reached, and you selected Stop at the

Toner Exhausted prompt. See page 9.7.

• The printer has

 

Wrong tray?

http://downloadcenter.samsung.com/content/UM/200910/20091031101300640/English.pdf

[tommej]

Gonna wager this is something to do with paper type/margins as hakko has said.

[elsiegee40]

I've had someething similar when a letter size label template was used instead of an A4 one by mistake.