Your printer is an amazing device except when it starts to lack functioning and cause trouble and delay. If your printer starts showing several issues like it can’t find a network connection, the Internet is not available or a paper feed error is occurring, you are left irritated as you can’t print anything which is its sole purpose. So, in such cases, it’s time for a hard reset. Resetting your printer to its factory default settings is generally a last resort when it comes to troubleshooting, but it’s often the most effective solution to your problems.

How to perform a hard reset on your printer

A hard reset is also known as a factory reset or master reset. It refers to restoration of a device to its original state when it left the factory. In this process, all settings, applications, and data added by the user are removed.
We are going to take a look at a set of instructions about how to hard reset your printer and fix print spooler error messages that you may be getting while using your printer.
So, first of all, you have to just turn off the Printer using the On/Off button on the Printer. Wait for it until it turns off completely.
Now, when your printer comes to off state, you have to press and hold the “Stop” button for two seconds. Further, after two seconds, keep holding the stop button, and then while you are holding the “Stop” button, just press the “On” button simultaneously.
Afterward, simply release the ”stop” button.
Now, while you keep holding the “On” button, press the “Stop” button five times. After doing this, you can release the power button.
Finally, you complete the process! Now your printer will go into the reset state, the screen will become blank. Give your printer a few seconds for the reset to its default settings. When it stops making noises, just press the “On” button and it will restart your printer.
Thus, your printer has been reset successfully.

After Hard Reset

So, now just let your printer go through this process here which is going to go ahead and then start to hard reset your printer. If you’ve got error messages on your screen on the display then using this process can hardly set back and sometimes fix those administrative passwords also and things like that will reset all of those as well. So, we are just going to let this go through.
Now, you need to push the power button one more time and thus it will stop going through another set of sequences to try to hard reset your printer. Once the display comes on, we can push the power button one more time then, power on your printer and this is a great way if you’ve got a sort of specific error messages that won’t go away.

A Very Effective Process to Reset your Printer

Sometimes, this process works and repairs your printer. At the time when you first buy your printer, during use you’ll hear the printer making a lot of noises and going through its sequences to hard reset the printer back to default settings but once you’ve done that hopefully this will rectify any sort of error you had on your printer or anything like that and now you can see once it stopped.

Install drivers

You are having your printer running and back up then you can go ahead for installing your drivers for your printer by going to the manufacturer’s website and then you have to download the latest versions of the required drivers. If you go into setup then you will find a reset setting there so that you can reset the printer.

How to reset setting

For resetting the settings follow the following steps:

So, basically it is all about the use of hard reset for fixing and resolving a lot of error codes.
We hope this article helps you out and hopefully rectifies any sort of error codes that you may be having on your printer. In case you are not tech-savvy, you can call on Printer support department at 1-800-000-000

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