Re: Officejet 710 won't print color in XP



I am just using the drivers found on the HP site:
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/softwareDownloadIndex?lc=en&cc=us&dlc=en&os=228&product=58127&lang=en&softwareitem=oj-22748-1

Located at the bottom of that page.

The program that HP installs is looking for a parallel port, but my
laptop does not have a parallel port. I am using a USB to parallel
port cable to connect to the printer. And then I create the port
manually and use "Have Disk..." to locate the drivers that come with
that download.

Late last night, after deleting all the previous drivers from
system32/spool/... I got the printer to print in 2 out of its 3 colors.
It might be completely out of yellow, but I'm not so sure.

I am thinking it's more worth my while to buy a new officejet or
lexmark that works with USB by default.

.



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