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Question

Printer just cancels or stops after a few pages

Jul 20, 2019 4:37PM PDT

Hello
After downloading open source (as I cannot get into ms office for some reason and cannot restore) my epson bw305 sometimes cancels itself, or prints a few pages then stops.
I don't know if the opensource software has anything to do with it, can any one help please? Wits end stuff!

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What is open source?
Jul 20, 2019 4:54PM PDT

I know what open source is but you skipped what the title was. Here I use LibreOffice from Ninite.com and never had this happen here.

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Printer just cancels or stops after a few pages
Jul 21, 2019 5:13PM PDT

Hello, thanks for your response but I do not understand. "Printer just cancels or stops after a few pages" was the title, did it not show properly?

I downloaded the "Open source" programmed which is a Msoffice alternative and it's free. It seems excellent but it throws my printer int barmy mode as it does not print all pages and sometimes cancels the print job. Please let me clarify if I am still not clear. Hope you enjoyed the seekend. Best
Alan

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So what is it?
Jul 21, 2019 5:30PM PDT

Since I don't see which Msoffice alternation app this is, I can't check out if there's something known going on.

https://i.imgur.com/vtuS0gK.gif for reference.

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Printer just cancels or stops after a few pages
Jul 22, 2019 12:30AM PDT

Good morning R Proffitt,

After many agonies I managed to get the restore programme to work and I have now gone back a few weeks and everything seems ok.

Many thanks to you, have a nice week.
Alan

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Printer just cancels or stops after a few pages
Jul 22, 2019 12:57AM PDT

Thanks for sharing this thread.