That is precisely the action occurring when the printer tries to print. I was going to describe what you have now said when I found the time to come back to visit the thread. I have a new in the box printer just like the one that is acting up on her machine. I had thought about installing it to see what may happen. Guess now I will do that when time allows.
Thanks for your continued help with this phenomenon.
Compaq Presario CQ5210F Windows 7 Home Premium 64Bit Athlon II X2 215(2.7GHz) Nvidia GeForce 6150SE 22" Envision LCD Monitor Brother HL2040 Laser Printer 500GB SATA HDD 3GB DDR2 Ram and NVIDIA nForce MCP61 Chipset Motherboard