| Author | Message | ||
     Swampy |
Hi experts, I am having a time trying to install a printer on my laptop. I am operating in windows 7 I am trying to install A HP 4500 office jet wireless. I have the printer showing up in my printers, I have a driver installed but I cannot print a test page. I have tried all of the windows helps, tried removing and reinstalling the driver and printer, followed the book to the tee. What am I doing wrong? BTW I absolutly hate windows 7 and vista for adding any devices such as printers and scanners or cameras, I absolutly have never been able to do this with any of my computers with these two operating systems. Thanks for your help | ||
| Harleyelf |
Not sure about your printer's software requirements, but I had to give my Dell printer away after I "upgraded" to Win7. If the printer instructions say it is compatible with Win7, go to the HP website and see if drivers are downloadable. If it doesn't, get one that does or get a cheap laptop that runs XP to print from. I have to load documents on flash drives and go to the house's oldest computer to print things. What make is the computer? | ||
| Froggy |
The problem is that the printer is connected wirelessly, it is nothing but a headache, plug it into a network jack or with the USB cable if possible. If you like, give me a call, 914-51-BUELL and I'll get you straightened out with the wireless. Oh, and Win7 makes this shit easy, try doing it in 98/XP without blowing a gasket  | ||
| Swampy |
As soon as I posted this for some unknown reason I was able to print a test page. Unfortunately that is only 1/4 the ability of the device. I went to the HP page and found a patch that let me load the installation. so I am still toiling away on this. Mr. Froggy, if I am still befuddled with this I will call you at a decent hour, thanks | ||
| Milt |
Post 3 more times and you'll have a fully functional printer. It just wants attention. | ||
| Pwnzor |
with most HP stuff you need to install the incredibly bloated software suite if you want to do more than just print *when connected by wifi* if you plug it directly into the computer on Win7 you can usually do everything after the Windows finishes doing it's backflips and perhaps a restart. | ||
| Swampy |
Sucess! I am wirelessly scanning pages as I type and storing them in a file for my wonderful wife! I really though I was going to have to take the thing back to the store. There is a software patch that allowed the installation to run and now it works just like it is supposed to....I think...LOL Panic is over, I really what to thank you guys for all of your support especially Milt! | ||
| Toona |
Randomly my wireless HP laserjet won't print. It seems that HP uses MS Office to generate the "image/page" to be printed. For whatever reason, sometimes it just quits generating the image, even though I just printed something 2 minutes prior and I have to restart the desktop computer to get it to print again. |
