# S.O.S. (Save an Old Sonofab\*tchprintingmachinefromHell) **URL:** \ **Category:** Printers, Scanners and Digital Cameras\ **Created:** [July 3, 2012, 7:51pm UTC](https://www.hardwareforums.com/t/s-o-s-save-an-old-sonofab-tchprintingmachinefromhell/31389 "2012-07-03T19:51:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![the\_killer\_rabbit](https://www.hardwareforums.com/user_avatar/www.hardwareforums.com/the_killer_rabbit/32/517_2.png) [@the\_killer\_rabbit](https://www.hardwareforums.com/u/the_killer_rabbit)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2012, 7:51pm UTC](https://www.hardwareforums.com/t/s-o-s-save-an-old-sonofab-tchprintingmachinefromhell/31389/1 "2012-07-03T19:51:36Z")
Dear all, I found a Canon BJS-265SP printer. It looks small and old (and old it is), but let this fool you not: its powers of mental pain and destruction are as strong as they ever were! I was (still am) in desperate need of a printer, and found this one lurking in the shadows of a cupboard, in the place I’m renting now. It is loaded with a functional cartridge. I connected it to a Windows XP laptop through a newly-bought Parallel-to-USB cable. I installed the required driver. The printer is detected by the cpu, and everything seems to be just fine. EXCEPT THAT: the printer keeps on blinking its evil green single eye, non-stop, from the moment I turn it on (with or without cpu connection). No tasks in the waiting list, of course. If I try printing anything (or sending any other task), a few minutes go by with no reaction, and I eventually get a nondescript error message (“Error occurred, launch the Printers & Fax troubleshooting, or else just go die, we don’t care” ). The Windows troubleshooting, predictably, is of no help whatsoever. WHAT SHOULD I DO?!! (assuming I have too little budget to go buy a new machine) Please help me bring back to life (at least for a while) this monstrous antiquity, for which I can’t even find a user’s manual anywhere. All assistance is welcome! Cheers, Dorian