John P
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| posted on 5/4/07 at 11:46 AM |
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HP 720c Printer with XP Home
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.
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Scotty
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| posted on 5/4/07 at 11:49 AM |
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when you say colours are poor, you sure ink is not low ?
or blocked ?
try head clean first
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John P
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| posted on 5/4/07 at 11:54 AM |
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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.
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graememk
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| posted on 5/4/07 at 12:01 PM |
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buy a new printer you tight arse
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tegwin
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| posted on 5/4/07 at 12:10 PM |
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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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Scotty
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| posted on 5/4/07 at 12:19 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by graememk
buy a new printer you tight arse
unfortunately he may be right 
been looking on the net and yes, it is a problem
[Edited on 5/4/07 by Scotty]
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tks
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| posted on 5/4/07 at 03:54 PM |
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Mhh windows 2000
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]
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tks
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| posted on 5/4/07 at 03:55 PM |
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mhh in my WINXP SP2 prof install i have those drivers built in??
are you sure that in XP Home they aren't??
Tks
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britishtrident
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| posted on 5/4/07 at 07:28 PM |
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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
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