I've got a rather old HP 720c which ran perfectly under Windows 98 on my old computer.

On my new machine running XP Home the colours are very poor and I have found reference to this problem on a forum where it was suggested I should up-date the driver.

HP don't seem to do a driver and one I downloaded from DriverGuide.com has a setup file which doesn't seem to run.

Am I doing something silly (probably) or should I simply accept I need a new printer.

John.

when you say colours are poor, you sure ink is not low ?
or blocked ?
try head clean first

No, the cartridge is new and I've run the cleaning process several times.

Photographs have a colour "cast" and the forum I found reported almost exactly the same problem.

buy a new printer you tight arse

We had a similar issue with our samsung laser printer and XP...

It would install but XP simply wouldnt allow it to be used....

The solution was to install a random lexmark printer with a similar driver, xp gets confused between the two devices which are installed and then allows you to print across to the samsung...complicated but it works...

Just a thought

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Originally posted by graememk
buy a new printer you tight arse

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comes standard with the driver.

i would try to extract those drivers files from win2K and copy them onto your XP system

should work

drivers between 2K and XP are compatible..

Tks

[Edited on 5/4/07 by tks]

mhh in my WINXP SP2 prof install i have those drivers built in??

are you sure that in XP Home they aren't??

Tks

The 720c was a good printer but the latest generation of HP printers can be bought for the price of a set of ink cartridges and the quality & speed is much better the the old 720