Printer won't print what's shown on the page

davbell22602 · Jan 30, 2011

Hp laserjet 5p

Wont print whats shown to be print from adobe reader or paint. I used windows xp drivers to install this. Hp doesnt have drivers for this printer. When I all it prints is 2 pages with one of letters on one and bar of ink on the other.

mike1959 · Jan 31, 2011

Does sound like the wrong printer driver.
Which Windows system are you using? I am guessing you are running Vista or 7, and using an XP printer driver.

davbell22602 · Jan 31, 2011

Using windows xp.

mike1959 · Feb 1, 2011

I had a look at the HP site for your Laserjet 5p. (Laserjet 4/5/6 Postscript family)
Found this page, driver for Windows XP;

http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsuppor...&swLang=8&mode=2&taskId=135&swItem=lj-46416-1

Copy and paste this link into a new tab in your browser. Is this it?
Slight worry to me is this file is only 0.9MB.
>>Read the info in Description box. It's important to follow what they say.

davbell22602 · Feb 1, 2011

This is all I get when I print anything even the test page.

mike1959 · Feb 1, 2011

Test page should print properly even if not connected to a pc.
Be sure to switch the printer on before the pc.
Install the new driver, from HP, shut down everything.
Power up printer, then pc.
Make sure your Windows has the latest patches, using Windows update.

http://www.update.microsoft.com/microsoftupdate/v6/vistadefault.aspx?ln=en-us

I have a HP scanner 'Scanjet G2710', so I have been through a few of these problems !!!

davbell22602 · Feb 1, 2011

This computer doesnt have internet access right now. I just installed a copy of XP after replacing the harddrive. I did put wireless network in it but gave up on getting it work.

captaincranky · Feb 1, 2011

Have you installed the basic chipset and LAN drivers?

davbell22602 · Feb 1, 2011

captaincranky said:
Have you installed the basic chipset and LAN drivers?

Yes got them from the acer website.

mike1959 · Feb 2, 2011

If you haven't got the wireless part set up yet, you should be able to get on the net with an Ethernet CAT 5 cable between pc and router. In fact you will have to, before you can get the wireless to configure.

davbell22602 · Feb 2, 2011

mike1959 said:
If you haven't got the wireless part set up yet, you should be able to get on the net with an Ethernet CAT 5 cable between pc and router. In fact you will have to, before you can get the wireless to configure.

Dont have long enough cable to do that.

mike1959 · Feb 2, 2011

Good point, can't argue with that. I took my pc apart and rebuilt it right next to the router, 'cos I only had a 1.5m CAT 5E cable. Then bought a 12m cable to solve that problem, and now I trip over it every day. Point is though, you don't need anything extra to get a basic Windows system on the net. Just plug into the LAN conn on pc and same on router. Go to MS updates and let it install all your pc needs.

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