This doesn't sound like a hardware issue. And no OS or printer model is supplied. All I can suggest is that you make a new post in the OS forum that matches your machine's OS and tell about the printer make/model/connection.
Bob
Is there a way to stop printer configuration things at startup and everytime I put a cd in the drive? It gets really annoying that the printer configures before anything else happens.

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