Deskjet Review

My uncle is trying to connect all of our laptops to his wireless Deskjet printer but when I go to add printer, in the list of drivers and whatnot, the deskjet series that he has will not show up in the listing. I clicked Windows update and still nothing. Is there a way around this or a way to add the printer where it will connect to the laptop without doing this? He downloaded the driver and software already from the HP website but it wants to do this again within the control panel, if I’m describing that correctly. Any tips?

Yes and it’s not as hard as it sounds.

Just go to the printer’s website and look for a link to the manufacturer’s drivers. Locate the specific model and download that driver software to a flash drive or some portable media. Just used that media to load the drivers onto your laptop.

I am thinking to buy a printer (hp deskjet ink advantage k209g). When i see the printer specifications, i see that it supports hp tricolour cartridge. It has three colours. How do i print pages which are having colours other than that in the cartridge ? Please help me soon.

HP was known for good printers. Lately they’re know for expensive printers and even more expensive ink. HP is the only company which:
1) puts an expiration date in the chip of the cartridge. You can insert a new sealed cartridge and have the printer reject it because it is expired
2) changes the size of the cartridges to make them smaller but keeps the same model number. You buy a cartridge at the store which is the same model your printer came with only to discover the cartridge wont fit because it is the other version.
I won’t even go into details on their terrible tech support, run by Indians with thick accents who read off a script and can solve nothing.
There are a lot of HP fans who bought their printers years ago when they were still good. It will take a while before people realize how much worse the company has become.

As for having all three colors on one cartridge, this is also a bad idea. Assume the cartridge can hold 20 ml of ink. Now it has to hold 3 colors so you are lucky if you get 6 ml of each. Then if any one of them runs out, the whole cartridge has to be replaced. What a waste. With individual color cartridges you get 20 ml of each color and you only replace the one which is out.

Epson wins for best price/feature comparison, best warranty and lowest cost of ink. You can’t beat their warranty. If anything goes wrong, they will fedex a replacement and pick up the old one at their expense. You can get ink for under 50 cents a cartridge at www.ccs-digital.com. You pay under 2.50 for reusable cartridges and then get $2 back for the empties. Or you can buy refillables (which is what Im using now) and refill yourself for pennies. Take a look at the workforce 3520 and 3540. They have received rave reviews from people who bought them.

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 a HP Deskjet F 4235 all in one printer, scanner, copier and would like to know how to change out the ink trays, color and black one. I have lost my book on this and have never loaded it. I have a door on the front, and when I open it the tray goes to one end and when I close it and open it again it goes to the other end. Do I have to just reach in there and change them out. They do not come out to the front of printer. Help please.

When you loaded the printer you would have had a cd that installed the drivers etc. – It usually installs help files that show these things –
Look at the programs and see if that is listed – If not, then in control panel and click on your printer and follow the trail to the instructions –

We had a HP Deskjet and getting an Epson Stylus tomorrow. From what we can see Epson cartridges are cheaper than the HP ones? But what about all the others, how do they compare price wise? I’m talking genuine ink cartridges not cheaper "compatible" or refurbished ones. Thanks.

Kodak claims to have the cheapest ink cartridges for inkjet printers, my friend, though I have no personal experience of Kodak printers.

I have a new Compaq pc, that came with Vista Basic already installed, and an HP deskjet D1420 printer .

On my older Gateway pc a picture of the 2 cartridges would appear as the page was printing, letting me see how much ink was left in the color & black cartridges.

How can I get this picture of the cartridges to display on my new pc, so I can see the level of ink remaining?

You should be able to change your display options by doing the following:

1
On the Windows taskbar, click Start .
2
Click Programs or All Programs , click HP , and then click HP Solution Center .
3
In HP Solution Center , click Settings , click Print Settings

What is the difference between hp deskjet and officejet?
some told me that officejet is used with huge jops
some told me that officejet can be used for sublimation

The officejet series is for Business and can handle big jobs. They are also, more expensive. They are either Laser or Ink jet printers (not sublimation).

Printer is HP deskjet 3500. Only black ink cartridge (c8727) is installed. I want to print a PDF where the text is medium gray. When it prints the text is too light to read. How can I get the printer to print the text as black so I can read it? Computer is a Dell 3000 with XP home.

Unless you can edit the PDF and change the font colour you can’t.

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 no idea about this photo ink cartridges thing. Can someone please explain like how many cartridges should be used when printing photos? I mean there should be a colour cartridge and a black cartridge too right?

Also, will HP Deskjet 3744 will produce quality pictures?

There is only two cartridges that you can use with this printer. The black cartridge is #27 and the color cartridge is #28. There is no special photo cartridge for this printer, because this printer is not designed for printing high quality photos.
Yes, you can print some photos, but the qualitiy of them won’t be very good. The photos won’t look as sharp as if you were printing them with a printer designed to print photos.
I would suggest looking at a Photosmart printer by HP or a printer of your choice.

Here’s what I found on HP’s website:
One or more optional photo cartridges may be available, depending on your printer model.
Use the photo cartridge with a tri-color cartridge for best-quality color photos and graphics, and sepia or antique photos.
Choose a gray photo cartridge to print black and white photos with truer grays and richer blacks

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