Vista - Can't Get to Printing Preferences in Vista for Hp officejet 6110

My Hp Officejet 6110 works fine but when I try to change my printing
preferences the dialogue box pops up and disappears so fast I can't even read
it. I can find no way to change any of my print settings, even when printing
and I hit the properties button, same thing everytime.

On Jan 5, 8:37*pm, bman in co <bmani...@xxxxxx>
wrote:I've had similar problems with my HP DeskJet 6127. Can't get to
printer preferences. Did you ever find a way around this?

roy

nope, can't figure it out

HP sucks, others I have talked to can't get their printers to work with
vista at all and had to buy new ones, not HP's I hope. It it hard to believe
that this is not intentional.

"R. Berger" wrote:

My HP 6110 works ok with Vista Home Premium, and I don't have that problem.

You might try deleting the printer in Start - Printers
and then adding it again.



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"bman in co" <bmaninco@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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My HP psc 950 (four years old) has worked with Vista since day one of the
Vista Beta in 2005. That includes scanning too.

"bman in co" <bmaninco@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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Did you use the provided driver that came with Vista? If so, how did you configure the printer, because I spent all of last evening trying to get Vista to print to my HP 6110!

The printer appeared to be in ONLINE status after installation, but no print jobs, not even a test page, would get through to the printer. All that would show up in the printer panel was ERROR, with no explanation of what the error was.

This printer has worked flawlessly for the past 3 years on XP and I do NOT want to get rid of it. I'm running Vista Home Premium on an HP 6317c desktop machine. Naturally, the HP 6110 is a USB printer, so I plugged it into one of the available USB ports. What's a little strange though is when I plug it into any USB port I don't hear the familiar bing-boing sound. Hmmm...

Care to share your setup with us? Thanks, Ed Newbold Columbus, OH

Ed,

I answered your post to Richard before I saw this one.

I have a 2.5 year old Gateway FX510 desktop. It came with XP Media Center
Edition. 13 months ago I did an upgrade to Vista Home Premium. I tried to
reinstall the HP Director software, only to discover it would not run, and
then found that HP didn't have an updated version. However the printer
works fine for me using the Vista drivers.

Since Home Premium doesn't come with Windows Fax & Scan, I purchased VueScan
for my scanning needs. I don't fax much, so I can do that manually.

I don't recall doing anything special to get it to work.... it just worked.
I have it plugged into a D-Link 7 port hub (powered). I share this printer,
and my wife prints to it, using her laptop (also with Vista Home Prem.).

Last month's Windows Update (2/15) did something to my computer, and I
ended up doing a clean install of Vista. The printer was recognized and set
up correctly, automatically. I don't recall doing any setup to it, other
than sharing it.

I would unplug it, remove it from Printers, reboot, and plug it back in.
You might try other USB ports.

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