printer spits out blank pages

[Donna]

I have a Dell AIO photo 926 printer. It almost always spits out a blank page
or page with just a couple of lines printed on first printing try. I have
uninstalled, downloaded proper drivers and reinstalled. This helps for a
little while then printer reverts to old maddening ways. How can I fix this?

 

[Cari \(MS-MVP\)]

Uninstall and reinstall correctly.

http://www.coribright.com/windows/Article_One.htm

If you miss out Step 4, all you will end up doing is reinstalling the older
and probably corrupted drivers.

 

[Donna]

I have Windows Vista not XP so the instructions on site you mentioned
(specifically in step 4) don't seem to apply.

 

[Cari \(MS-MVP\)]

It applies to both XP and to Vista.

 

[Donna]

Re the steps you referred me to: Under step 4, I cannot find a printer
drivers list. Setup must be different in Vista than in XP. I went to
Control Panel, and Printer, but there are no toolbar, file, server
properties or drivers tabs. Clicking on properties brings up none of these
tabs. So I haven't done anything and my printer continues to waste one page
before it prints anything.

 

[Cari \(MS-MVP\)]

I'm on Vista (Ultimate) and under Print Server Properties, there are 4 tabs,
the 3rd one along is Drivers and all my printers are listed there. Right
now I have 9 printers installed all over the network (none locally) and they
are all listed there. There is one that for some reason I have never
installed on my notebook, but is on the network and attached to my desktop.
It is not showing up in that list of 9.

 

[Donna]

Hello Cari
Thanks for all your input. I did finally find the drivers tab, which lists
my printer as well as things like pdf writer and One Note. But after I
uninstalled my printer, the 'remove' option was greyed out for each function
so I could not touch them. I didn't use Add/Remove to uninstall, but rather
downloaded a patch that I was told would completely remove my printer
software. Then I downloaded vista drivers and reinstalled. Now printer is
working fine, but I don't know for how long as I've gone thru this procedure
before and the problem returned.
Come to think of it, I think the printer and fax were no longer listed in
the drivers tab after I uninstalled with the patch. Also, I think the driver
I downloaded was a newer version. So here's hoping ....