Deskjet Review

I’ve just bought a new HP deskjet printer but there’s no USB cable with it. Would you expect a USB cable to be supplied with your new printer? It’s too late to bring it back to the shop so I’ll have to wait until the morning.
Hey Jeebus, I’ve just bought a brand new printer. The least they can do is give me a USB cable to go with it!

i also purchased a new HP deskjet and the sales person said the USB cable was extra, my blood pressure was going up and i replied " would you buy a car with only 3 wheels" no he said. got the cable 🙂

I have an HP Deskjet D2460 that keeps on blinking really fast and does not respond or print, I tried to unplug and plug but it still keeps blinking. I didn’t plug the USB cable yet so it doesn’t have anything to do with the computer or USB connection.

Isn’t there an error message shown? Could be a paper jam or no ink no one can say for sure without see the error message or printer. Heck try plugging in the USB cable and see if that works worth a try.

I have a HP Deskjet 3745 printer and I want to print something but I lost my CD to install the printer to my new laptop. Is there a way I can use the printer without installing the CD?

Some printers come with self install software or just work anyways. Plug in the usb cable, wait to see if anything pops up. I just have to connect the comp. and printer with usb and I’m good to go. Hope this works for you.

The printer has recently been re-installed with drivers downloaded off the internet, and the ink has just been replaced. However, nothing will print. When we go to print a test page, it shoot outs a blank piece of paper. Every now and then a document will print, but won’t print again on the second attempt. It’s an HP Deskjet 1320 printer plugged into the computer with a USB cable. What do we do?

Was the ink you put in new ink? Or had you had it for awhile? Sometimes older ink you haven’t used will be affected by moisture, so if this is the case, go buy new cartridges. You can also try unplugging anything connecting the computer and printer, and the shutting your computer down, plugging everything back in, and restarting your computer. Try opening the front cover of the printer and making sure the ink cartridges roll out so you can see them in the middle of your printer. Print a page while you have it open and make sure that they are moving. If none of this works, call a specialist.

i just got a new HP deskjet f4280 printer. it says i need a USB cable to finish, but its not included. Im not sure if i need a specific kind of USB cable? i just dont want to buy the wrong type…

please let me know what kind to use!

just a printer usb, they are mainly the same

I have HP5850 deskjet printer that worked without any problems till I recently changed the black cartridge. It prints without any prompts a "test page" with heavy bars each time after a normal file is printed. Could some one please help fix this annoying and paper/ ink wasting phenomenon? I checked the various tabs under "print properties" for any unusual settings. Didn’t notice any unusual settings.Thanks lot for the help.

This will fix that problem for you

Please follow exactly and IN ORDER.

1. Turn off the printer and wait 10 seconds. Turn it on again

2. Let the printer print the test page.

3. After the test page is printed, disconnect the USB cable connecting the printer to your computer. DO NOT turn off the printer while disconnecting the USB cable.

4. Place the test page on the scanner glass and press the SCAN button on the printer. The ON light will flash as the page is being scanned.

5. Remove the test page when the ON light is steady.

6. Finally, turn off the printer and wait another 10 seconds. Then turn it on again. No more printing test pages! Yay!

(You may now reconnect the printer to your computer via the USB cable.)

hello, i have just installed new ink cartrige to my hp deskjet printer. from previous troubles i had the printer paused and i forgot about this. after inserting the cartrige i was offered to align the printer but i messed with it. it printed the test page and also the aligning sheet but i cannot set the correct parametres anymore. how can i try it again? it does not print badly, but just to do it correctly.

many thanx.

Disconnect the Universal Serial Bus (USB) cable from the back of the product, but leave the product turned on

Open the cover of the product and remove the print cartridges

Close the cover and wait for the Insert Ink Cartridges message to display

Disconnect the power cord from the back of the product and wait for one minute

Reconnect the power cord. If the product does not automatically turn on, press the Power button

Open the cover and reinsert the print cartridges

Close the cover. If prompted, print a calibration page.
Reconnect the USB cable, and try to print a print job from the computer

We have 2 computers, a desktop (Dell running XP) and a laptop (Compaq running Vista). The HP deskjet printer is currently attached to the desktop. How can I get it so I can print from the laptop over the wireless network. I have a Netgear router. I tried using the sharing options on Windows, but it lets me choose the printer, but nothing ever prints. Help?

The typical way to share a printer between multiple computers on a small wireless network is to connect the printer to one of the computers, and then enable it to be shared across the network. The major problem with this method, however, is that the host computer for the printer must be turned on and configured correctly for other computers to be able to print. Even when this is the case, however, glitches tend to happen in the network or the host computer’s operating system that make wireless network printing unreliable at best. Fortunately, there is a better way to share a printer, by using a device known as a wireless print server. This device can make nearly any USB printer wireless and reliably available to the network.

Instructions :-

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Obtain a wireless print server that is compatible with both your wireless network and your printer. While the printer’s documentation may not explicitly say that it is compatible with a print sever, many are compatible, and this can be verified by checking the website of the print server’s manufacturer. If you have a multifunction printer, only the print function will work with most wireless print servers, though a few have recently added support for scanning and the printer’s other functions.
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Read all of the documentation that came with the wireless print server. The manual will detail the specifics of the installation routine.
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Connect the printer to the wireless print server via the USB cable. Connect the print server’s AC adapter and turn the unit on.
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Connect an Ethernet cable between the wireless print server and your computer. This will be used for the initial setup only.
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Insert the CD supplied with the print server into your CD-Rom drive. Start the software if it does not start automatically. The application will walk you through the installation process, which includes setting the unit’s IP address, setting an access password, configuring it to connect to the wireless network, installing the drivers that allow the print server to use the printer and installing the print drivers on your computers.
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Choose how your print server will be addressed. Most units are set up to use dynamic addressing by default, which means that your wireless router will assign an IP address to it. This allows the server to be easily installed on the network, but it also means that the IP address of the printer may change over time. The other option is to assign a static IP address to your print server. This option is more reliable, because the print server will always use the same IP address, making it easier for the computers to find the printer and easier to access the print server’s online configuration application. If your router has the IP address of 192.168.0.1, for instance, set the print server to something like 192.168.0.2 or 192.168.0.3, as long as another device does not use that address.
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Set a password to be used to access the unit’s online configuration application.
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Configure the print server to access your wireless network. Give it the same SSID network name as your router and set it to use the same wireless channel. If encryption is used on the router, enable encryption on the print server, and enter the encryption key or password.
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Follow the instructions given by the print server’s software for installing printer drivers on the unit.
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Disconnect the Ethernet cable and allow the unit to connect via the wireless network.
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Install the printing drivers on each computer that will use the printer.
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Access the print server’s online configuration application to verify all settings by entering the IP address of the unit into a web browser, using the “http://192.168.0.2” format. Enter the administrator name and password.