February 12th 2015 - HP Printer

February 12th 2015 - HP Printer

I swear to god I am going to throw something or hit the stupid thing!!!

All I want it to do is scan about 7 pages so that I can send them as an email so that they arrive quicker than via snail mail.  But no my HP 4500 Printer has other ideas.  It keeps telling me that 1. there are no computers detected and 2. scan to computer is not enabled.  So I follow the instructions, turn printer off and on again still nothing.  I click the disable scan to printer button and then click enable and still nothing.

I have no idea why it is doing this as it was working fine the other day.  My next port of call is to re-download the drivers incase they have somehow got corrupted or removed from laptop, not sure how they would have though.  I have unistalled and re-installed the drivers and still nothing.  So My final option was to completely uninstall and re-install the printer, turn laptop off and on again, turn printer off and on again and finally they are speaking to each other and have scanned the documents.  Only problem is I placed them upside down on printer and my laptop wont let me turn them round.  Oh well they will be emailed upside down!!!

Despite the printer being a pain today it is usually a good printer.  Although it wasn't that expensive when we bought it and the ink is very cheap to  replace (£17 total for both black and colour).  It has a scanner (when it works) a copy mechanism and is a good quality printer.  It also has the benefit of being wifi and you can connect to it via phone as well as laptop.  Most of the time I would definately reccommend it to people.  However today my answer would be NO!

January 26th 2015 - Printer re-set

January 26th 2015 - printer re-set

For today's pin I was going to attempt to reset my HP printer ink cartridges via a link on pinterest, where it said that you take the cartridge out, turn it over and using a paper clip gently press on the re-set button in the middle.  Brilliant and very easy.

Errrrr not very easy if you have a HP printer as they DONT have a re-set button!  So I had to look for another pin on how to reset a HP.  I found one and it said to remove the cartridges and turn them over, cover the top 4 pins of the left row with clear tape and put back in printer, you would get an error message and to wat 10seconds before removing.  remove the tape and place over top 4 on right side.  This would have been great except my cartridges didnt have 4 pins near the top!

Well I placed the tape over 4pins and put the cartridges back in, got the error message, waited and then removed, and did the same the other side.  Removed the tape altogther and put cartridges back in and printed the test page which it printed.  (YAY)

Unfortunately when I tried to print the document I needed it came out blank again.  So this pin was a total flop for my printer.  Was a worth a shot incase I could trick it it thinking there was abit more ink left.  Never mind, will have to wait to get new ink.