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How to fix the page order when printing a PDF on both sides

I have opened a PDF with Adobe Reader and printed it on both sides of the paper. The printer is an HP Officejet Pro 251dw. The document is printed cleanly, but the pages come out of the printer in the ...
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How to print to HP Officejet without using HP Smart setup?

My lovely older neighbors got gifted a newish HP OfficeJet printer. They do not want to sign up with HP in order to use the printer. They only have a wifi set up at their home usually with no internet ...
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Printer missing ink cartridge error - HP Officejet 6500 Wireless All-in-One Printer - E709n

I am not sure this is the correct forum to post this. However, I am currently using a HP Officejet 6500 Wireless All-in-One Printer - E709n. Recently, I discarded all of the color ink cartridges ...
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Can I scan with a HP OfficeJet Pro 9018 without logging into an HP account?

I bought an HP OfficeJet Pro 9018 for its duplex scanning capability. The HP Smart scan application will not scan anything without logging into an HP account. I absolutely do not want anything I ...
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how do I clean ink out from inside the hp officejet 8600 printhead?

I'm getting the dreaded "there is a problem with the ink system" on my hp officejet 8600. After watching a bunch of youtube videos I took it apart, and when I took the springs out (see ...
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Should you switch your Inkjet printer off or leave it on standby for ink cartridges to not dry?

I did read that inkjet printers need to regularly clean their cartridges so that their tip don't dry. The common recommendation therefore is to not remove the power supply, which I'm not doing. What I'...
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HP Printer scrolls "printing" forever - but nothing happens

I got a used HP Officejet 7130 all-in-one printer. I tried printing a text document, and it shows up in the queue (and says "printing"), and the printer display says "Printing" "Press Cancel to ...
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HP Officejet 7500a Won't Print in Color

As the title says, the printer just refuses to print in color. I got it second hand and just got around to setting it up after having it in storage for a while, so I don't know if it was defective ...
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Mcafee Host Intrusion Protection blocks all-in-one network printer

I just bought a new HP Officejet 6500 printer. It has a built-in ethernet port, so I happily connected it to my network. While I was playing around with it, I saw that it stopped responding ...
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Can't access Embedded Web Server on HP Officejet Pro 8630: "System Error"

My HP Officejet Pro 8630 has started giving me this error when I try to access the Embedded Web Server (EWS) by entering the printer's IP address in a Web browser: System Error An error has occurred. ...
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multi-page scan to PDF using HP all-in-one on a Linux machine

Switched Mom and Dad's computer to Linux some time back. All has gone well save a couple little things. One of these is the HP all-in-one printer (Officejet 6700). On Windows, Dad used to be able to ...
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Where to find a list of printers which require my cartridge type?

My HP 4355 Officejet printer recently died, and I have lots of unused cartridges. Is there a list of printers which would require the HP 21 ink cartridge?
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Printer info removal

I removed a printer, its icon, and anything connected to it, yet each time I log on, there is a message stating: C:\Program Files\HP\HP Officejet Pro 276dw MFP\bin\HP Status BL.dll The ...
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Documents not arriving in print queue - HP Driver issue

I have two hp wireless printers which worked fine until some days ago. Now, my HP Officejet Pro 6830 has a strange issue. Even if it appears as installed both in the (new) windows 10 Printers & ...
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HP OfficeJet 6600 printer color too dark

Images from from OfficeJet 660 are consistently dark, printing from any computer. HP Genuine cartridges installed and I've gone through all 3 stages of cleaning. Is there a way to change the color ...
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HP Officejet scanner: "Failed to open a session on the device"

I have an HP Officejet 4500 G510n-z printer/scanner, connected to the local wifi. I'm trying to scan from my macbook running OS X Yosemite (10.10.5), but when I try to do so, I get the error message "...
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Issues with printer share on Debian Samba server, jobs not getting sent to server

I'm having quite a bit of issues with getting my printer shared on my Debian 8. I have an HP Officejet 4500 g510n-z hooked in via USB to the machine. It is detected: root@bahamut:/etc/samba# lsusb ...
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New HP Officejet 4500 will not connect wirelessly

We just got a new Officejet 4500 that I began to set up last night. First I followed the recommended setup path for setting it up wirelessly: USB connection to my MacBook Pro, install the software, ...
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How can I get an HP Officejet to stop claiming ink cartridges are defective every time I replace them?

Here's my problem. I have an HP Officejet 6600 e-All-in-one. About two months ago it displayed that my magenta ink cartridge was low. I began hunting around for an ink cartridge and found a magenta ...
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Officejet j4580 doesn't print under Windows 10

I have an Officejet j4580 which worked fine under Windows XP and Windows 7. Recently, I upgraded the computer from Windows 7 to Windows 10 in-place, after burning the Windows 10 upgrade to a DVD and ...
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Using PCL3e escape sequences on an HP Officejet Pro 8630 to duplex on the long edge

I'm trying to print raw, plain ASCII text (e.g. IETF RFCs, which contain form-feed characters for automatic pagination) by sending it directly to port 9100 on my HP Officejet Pro 8630. The ...
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Fax on HP Officejet

I'd like to know if it was possible to setup my HP Officejet Pro 8630 as a fax machine on my cable service's telephone plan. I currently have Time Warner Cable as my telephone supplier. I want it to ...
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HP Officejet Pro 8625 sends document to the printer, but doesn't print

We have an HP Officejet Pro 8620. It connects to the WiFi and we installed the driver on our Windows 8.1 x64 systems without any issues. However, when we try to print documents, even though it says ...
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HP Officejet 7410 AIO: Scanning/copying output is a solid black field

I recently tried to breathe some life back into an old Officejet 7410 for my parents. The printing is fine, but the scanning and the copying respectively produce images and copies that are mostly ...
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Printing problems from Vista laptop to network HP OfficeJet 8500A

I have a network with some computers connected to it; one of those machines is a laptop running Vista. When I try to print from this laptop the documents just seem to pile up in the spool directory ...
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Windows 8's Fax and Scan doesn't recognize my HP 7310

When I had Windows 7 I successfully scanned documents with my 7310 AIO operating as scanner. Now that I upgraded to Windows 8 Windows Fax and Scan doesn't detect any attached scanner. I tried to ...
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Officejet 6600 on Windows Server 2008 x64

I have an OfficeJet 6600 which won't be installed on Windows Server 2008 x64. I've contacted HP-support and they said that they're not allowed to support Windows Server 2008. So now I'm asking you ...
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Windows 7 Busy Icon won't stop spinning

In windows 7 you have the busy icon that is a little blue wheel spinning beside the cursor when it is doing something. It has started to spin for about a second every 3-5 seconds. There is noting ...
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Very slow accessing printer shared from Windows Machine

How do I go about debugging a networking problem where the office printer is shared off a Windows XP PC and is very slow from me to access? Print/changing any settings can take several minutes and ...
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Anybody have luck Scanning from HP OfficeJet Pro 8600 to Ubuntu Linux

Having no issues printing to HP OfficeJet Pro 8600 from Ubuntu. Ubuntu found network printer and installed ok using closest driver "OfficeJet 8500". However, scanner was not detected. I was ...
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Sending a Fax without a fax number

I have an HP Officejet 8600 Pro that has faxing capabilities. However I do not send faxes often and I do not need to pay for a dedicated fax number/line. Is there a way to send and receive faxes using ...
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Where can I find the drivers for the HP Officejet 6200 Series Fax?

Can someone tell me how to install the HP Officejet 6200 Series Fax? I can no longer find the original setup CD and I can't find the drivers online. I am using Windows XP Pro.
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multiple printer entries shown for HP Officejet 4500 in CUPS system-config-printer 1.2.0

I upgraded from 8.04 to 10.04 in September. When I access System > Administration > Printing, I see multiple printers although I only have one connected i.e. I see: Officejet_4500_G510a-f (green ...
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HP Officejet printing with only magenta ink, but copies fine with black ink

My HP Officejet 5610xi All-in-One is printing oddly lately. An all-black text document will print magenta text. Printing color imagery also results in an all magenta result. However, copying ...
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Trying to install HP OfficeJet G85 All-in-One printer software on Windows XP

I have been running this printer successfully on a Windows 2000 partition. Because I wanted to use newer fonts available in XP, I decided to try to install the printer software and driver on the ...
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Can Windows Fax and Scan use an HP OfficeJet for faxes?

I have an HP OfficeJet 5610 AIO printer/scanner/fax, and I'm running Windows 7 without HP custom drivers for the printer. Printing and scanning works fine, but is it possible to use the built-in ...