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Problems Installing HP Photo Printer Software

May 30, 2011 By

Subscriber Wanda Armstrong wrote recently to ask for help in installing the driver software for her new photo printer:


I have a HP Photosmart 7760 printer. (NO disk) I found the program and driver file download at HP site. I am running XP Prof.

I have tried multiple times to install the file and it sticks or hangs at 31% every time. How do I get this problem solved?

Don’t know if this would have anything to do with the stall or not but I had HP 4400 printer connected for a while I didn’t uninstall that program or driver.

HP is
of NO HELP on this_ Can you please advise a fix for this problem?

Thanks a Bunch! Wanda

I wrote back to Wanda to suggest that she try shutting down all the other programs, except her firewall and antivirus, when she installs. She may have some particular program running in the background that’s interfering.

Also, I reminded her that HP’s software requires…

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Adding Memory to the HP Color LaserJet CP1518ni

August 1, 2010 By

One of the differences between inkjet printers and laser printers has to do with handling of the data to be printed.

An inkjet printer gets its commands for each printed line, one at a time, from Windows. It prints the line and gets the data for the next line. Sometimes they buffer a little of the data so there’s no hesitation, but Windows is talking to the printer thoughout the whole print job.

That’s not the way that laser printers work. A laser printer has to get all the data for a whole page before it starts to print that page.

What happens if there is so much content, shapes or colors, that the printer’s memory can’t receive the entire page? You can’t print it. You have to add memory.

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HOWTO: Change Your Default Printer

April 22, 2007 By

In all versions of Windows, whether you have one printer or more, only one of those printers is set as the “Default Printer”.

The default printer is the printer on which many programs will print, if you click their Print icon. Most programs also have a Print option under their File menu, which will display a print dialog box — which will let you choose between multiple printers.

Microsoft Word, Excel and Powerpoint are three examples of programs that have a Print icon that immediately prints to the default printer.

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