# Print to console not working?

**URL:** <https://discourse.processing.org/t/print-to-console-not-working/26772>\
**Category:** Processing\
**Created:** [January 4, 2021, 4:16pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/print-to-console-not-working/26772 "2021-01-04T16:16:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![Kris1](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.processing.org/kris1/32/9385_2.png) [@Kris1](https://discourse.processing.org/u/Kris1)\
**Post date:** [January 4, 2021, 4:16pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/print-to-console-not-working/26772/1 "2021-01-04T16:16:28Z")

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Hi folks,

I have a strange problem. The print to console does not seem to work on new sketches. I have printed to console many times, and it is not that I do not understand how to do it- it is that it does not work.

I have copied the code from the print example to test. Nothing. I put the same exact code in a sketch made about a month ago, and it works.

Has anyone come across this and know a fix?

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**Author:** ![Kris1](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.processing.org/kris1/32/9385_2.png) [@Kris1](https://discourse.processing.org/u/Kris1)\
**Post date:** [January 4, 2021, 4:20pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/print-to-console-not-working/26772/2 "2021-01-04T16:20:50Z")

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Okay, even stranger. I now works. I literally did nothing different. Ah coding 🙂

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**Author:** ![CodeMasterX](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.processing.org/codemasterx/32/2942_2.png) [@CodeMasterX](https://discourse.processing.org/u/CodeMasterX)\
**Post date:** [January 4, 2021, 4:50pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/print-to-console-not-working/26772/3 "2021-01-04T16:50:46Z")

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When Einstein said: “Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results” he clearly didn’t know about programming

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**Author:** ![Sierra\_Alpha\_Romeo.P](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.processing.org/sierra_alpha_romeo.p/32/11571_2.png) [@Sierra\_Alpha\_Romeo.P](https://discourse.processing.org/u/Sierra_Alpha_Romeo.P)\
**Post date:** [January 4, 2021, 6:30pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/print-to-console-not-working/26772/4 "2021-01-04T18:30:54Z")

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When a code having no errors doesn’t run for the first time, we are in a trouble.

But when we run the same code(unedited) yet again and if it runs correctly, we realize that we are in a greater trouble.