Sharp MX-M450N seizing issues

[Charles24]

Hello,

The company I work for has the Sharp MX-M450N printer/fax/copier in their Accounting Department. I am a relatively new employee, but delays are probably the most frustrating element of any work-environment. This printer is creating a headache of delays.

In short, when printing invoices from PDF, they will all be registered as jobs the printer will start. However, after a VERY long wait 1/3 jobs will not print. The problem is "Band-aid" fixed by turning off the printer, turning it on and then (hopefully) moving on to the next job as the current job is then lost (Resulting in a big headache if the job is something not easily retrieved).

I've called Sharp's customer help and they brushed me off to their dealers. I called the dealers and they were VAGUE on a DIY job to potentially reoslve it; by vague, they were pushing for me to bring in the printer or have someone come down and work on it - typical bs from a supplier. I am pretty proficient with repairs, but I need to know where to look and I've stonewalled myself (Google, troubleshoot, etc.), in addition to being stonewalled by the manufacture.

All help is appreciated,

Cheers

[allen2]

Some generics pointers:

- Try printing those pdf directly to printer either with an usb connection or a network printer queue on your computer (that one only if you use a print server) with a crossover network cable.

- Look at the size of the spooled document in the queue (some small pdf of a few KB can became GB when spooled).

- Check if another Postscript or PCL driver solve this issue.

- Some printers come with an embedded web interface allowing to print an uploaded document. You could try also this if available.