HP Photosmart 7450 Prints Noise On Windows 7 Pro 64-bit
- by David Mackintosh
I have received a working (in its last location) HP Photosmart 7450 printer. I connected it up to my Windows 7 Pro 64-bit workstation, and the driver was (apparently) installed.
The problem is that whenever I try to print from it -- test page, text from notepad, picture, whatever -- it spins through a half dozen sheets of paper, some of which have fractions of text on them, but most of which are either blank or have line noise printed on them. Noise similar to what was printed out on ye olde laserjet printers when the postscript interpreter failed.
HP's web site only has a "use the included driver in Windows 7, be happy" instruction.
The driver has been removed and added several times.
The printer was previously attached to a XP Home computer and worked correctly without incident.
Does anyone have any ideas for troubleshooting before I drop this printer in the river?