At times, your Printer may give out an error message – User intervention required on your Windows 11/10 computer when you go on to print some documents. If your Printer will not print and you receive such error messages frequently, here are a few troubleshooting steps that may help you.
The message would read something like this:
Your printer needs your attention – Printer needs user intervention
Your printer needs your attention, Printer needs user intervention
So if The Printer requires your attention, here are a few suggestions that will help you fix the problem:
- Check connections
- Reconnect Printer; Restart PC
- Cancel Print Queue
- Check Services status
- Run Printer Troubleshooter
- Restart printing of the document
- Check for Driver update
- Check Printer settings
- Run HP Print Doctor
- Switch the USB Port.
Let us see them in detail.
User Intervention Required for Printer
1] Check connections
Check if you see any blinking lights on the printer and ensure that all connections are made tightly.
2] Reconnect Printer; Restart PC
Turn the Printer On. Disconnect the power cord from the printer as well as from the power source. Wait for a minute. Meanwhile, restart your computer. Once the computer has booted to the desktop, plug the cord into the wall power source, then into the back of the printer, and then turn on the Printer.
Read: The printer requires your attention, Please check the printer
3] Cancel Print Queue
Reset or cancel the Print queue. See if this helps.
4] Check Services status
Run services.msc to open the Services Manager and check if the Spooler Service is running. If not, Start it. If it is running, Restart the Windows Service. If you face issues with the Service, run the Print Spooler Cleanup Diagnostic from Microsoft. It removes non-Microsoft print processors and monitors. Additionally, it collects basic information about the print spooler and the computer, such as information about print drivers, printers, basic networking, and failover clustering and offers various modes of cleanups.
5] Run Printer Troubleshooter
Use the built-in Printer Troubleshooter.
To bring up the built-in Printer Troubleshooter, open Run box, type the following and hit Enter:
msdt.exe /id PrinterDiagnostic
You may also run the Hardware Troubleshooter.
6] Restart printing of the document
Restart printing of the document and see if that helps. To do this, open Control Panel > All Control Panel Items > Devices and Printers. Select the printer, right-click on it and select See what’s printing.
In the Print Driver status box which opens, click on the Document tab and select Restart.
7] Check for Driver update
Check if any Driver updates are available for your printer from the manufacturer’s website. In the same Print Driver status box, click on Printer and select Update Driver.
8] Check Printer settings
While there, under the Printer tab, make sure that the Pause Printing and Use Printer Offline entries are unchecked.
9] Run HP Print Doctor
If you are using an HP printer, run the HP Print and Scan Doctor and see if it helps fix the problem.
10] Switch the USB Port
If you have connected the printer locally, switch the USB Port and see.
I hope something helps!
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