Vista - Photo Gallery won't print photos

I am running Windows Vista Home Edition and have an HP Photosmart 2610
all-in-one. I am trying to print photos from Photo Gallery, but when I click
"Print", it appears that the photo runs through the print spool (shows up in
the queue) but nothing happens on the printer. I have uninstalled and
re-installed the printer, and can print from other programs and get a test
page. There appears to be no problem and I don't get an error message... I
tried rebooting, unsharing, re-sharing, and even imported the picture to a
Word document (I managed to print 1) however, when I went to print the second
picture in Word using the same procedure, the same thing happened as in Photo
Gallery where it appeared to spool and hit the print queue, but the printer
didn't do anything...

I'm having the same problem. I'm using a HP psc 2110 all-in-one and it shoots
out a blank paper instead of printing pictures. It does it from MS Word and
my Photo Gallery. I can't believe no one knows how to fix this...
I'm buying a Mac next time.

"magaparsec" wrote:

Same problem here, I own two HP 2610s but it applies to any photo
printing out of any application (Photoshop, MS photogallery, etc.): it
seems to be limited to the moment printing on photo paper is selected. I
have managed to print photos on A4 plain paper but never on photo paper
of any type. I am not quite sure on whether anything at all makes it to
the print queue, I have not seen anything popping up there but I may not
have been quick enough. I have spent days corresponding with HP's
support services but after a few dozens e-mails the problem remains.
Please check whether you can print on standard paper. If you get the
problem on photo paper only, like me, then chances are that the HP
driver dies not work or it is not compatible (listen listen) with
Vista......


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A friend called me last evening with the same problem. we solved it by downloading Irfanview
http://www.irfanview.com
After associating image files with this program, everything works fine. apparently there is a compatability issue with some older printers. rather than buy a new printer, try using the really good FREE software from Irfanview.