Stop the printer flashing

I have an old Deskjet 3910 printer connected via USB to my XP laptop (also tried Windows 7). Sometimes, it gets stuck in offline and before the light flashing State. I'm experienced enough to solve this problem and you know all kinds of tricks. But this time he is really stuck. All the web pages I find simple instructions give people new computers. Is there a way guaranteed to stop the blinking of the printer?

I tried to unplug the power supply, with or without USB cable connect to my laptop (left out of hours printer), cleaned the print queue, reinstalled 'HP Deskjet 3900 Series pilot full', made sure of jammed paper, almost the full ink level. A crossed the recommended HP utility printer diagnosis (which resembles no surprises designed for computer novices). What else could we do?

Try to review this document from HP because it covers a power LED flashes specifically for this printer.

http://support.HP.com/us-en/document/c01082964

This looks like the printer software, when it started to happen, should have displayed an error message any.

I know that you have tried many of the basic steps, but see if you can find the error message displayed when it started happening.

It is possible that this is a hardware problem. The last step of the document is to repair the unit. If it is under warranty, contact HP support by phone for the interview. You may need to repeat some troubleshooting steps.

If it is longer under warranty, I believe that the repair cost would be better spent to put towards a new printer.

Let me know what happens.

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