[K. Prophett]

The USB cord was disconnected from the printer and when I reconnect it, it doesnt recognize that a printer is installed. So I try to add the printer and it says "Operation could not be complete. The print spooler is not running".



The printer was working before but only in color ink. There is a full cartiage of black ink but it just would not print in black for some apperent reason. Is there a way I can fix THESE TWO problems?

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Click start then run, type services.msc and press enter, look for the print spooler service, double click it, set the start up type to automatic, click apply, click to start the service

Switch the PC off, connect the USB lead, leave the printer switched off, when windows has completely loaded to the desktop, turn the printer on, hopefully you will hear a bing bong

The cartridge thing is either head cleaning or re-inserting the cartridge

[Retired Tech]

Click start then run, type services.msc and press enter, look for the print spooler service, double click it, set the start up type to automatic, click apply, click to start the service

Switch the PC off, connect the USB lead, leave the printer switched off, when windows has completely loaded to the desktop, turn the printer on, hopefully you will hear a bing bong

The cartridge thing is either head cleaning or re-inserting the cartridge

[K. Prophett]

I get an error message saying:

Could not start the Print Spooler service on Local Computer.

Error 1068: The dependency service or group failed to start.

[Retired Tech]

Try here

http://support.micro...kb/905999/EN-US

[Retired Tech]

Also check in services.msc that the RPC Remote Procedure Call service is running then try to start print spooler

[K. Prophett]

What about the RPC Locator? the regular RPC is started but the RPC locator is not. Should I start it up?

[Retired Tech]

Mine is

Procedure is set to automatic start up type, Locator is set to manual

[Retired Tech]

Another option

When you attempt to start the Print Spooler service (using Services.msc), one of the following error messages may appear and the Spooler service does not start:

Could not start the Print Spooler service on Local Computer.
Error 1075: The dependency service does not exist or has been marked for deletion.

Could not start the Print Spooler service on Local Computer.
Error 1068: The dependency service or group failed to start.

The event log may display the following messages:

Event Type: Error
Event Source: Service Control Manager
Event Category: None
Event ID: 7003
Description:
The Print Spooler service depends on the following nonexistent service: <servicename>
Event Type: Error
Event Source: Service Control Manager
Event Category: None
Event ID: 7001
Description:
The Fax service depends on the Print Spooler service which failed to start because of the following error:
The dependency service does not exist or has been marked for deletion.

Resolution

To resolve the problem, fix the dependency information for the Spooler service.

Click Start, Run and type the following:

CMD /K SC CONFIG SPOOLER DEPEND= RPCSS

Alternately, to accomplish this using Registry Editor:
Click Start, Run and type Regedit.exe

Navigate to the following branch

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SYSTEM \ CurrentControlSet \ Services \ Spooler

In the right-pane, double-click the DependOnService value

Delete the existing data, and then type RPCSS

Close Regedit.exe

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