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Keep getting “Press Enter to Align Cartridges” on HP PSC 2210

admin — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 03:23:42 +0000

If you have stumbled here it probably because you cannot print. Let me guess, your HP (Hewlett Packard) PSC 2210 multifunction printer is flashing and the display is reading “Press Enter to Align Cartridges”?

Well you have landed at the right place. It is very easy to fix this problem. All you have to do is:

Press and hold down the Setup button, then
Press the Options button

Thius should bypass the print alignment function and allow you to print.

If you still cannot print you may want to check out this page from Hewlett Packard:

HP PSC 2210 - Press Enter to Align Cartridges

Hope that helps!

Access Denied when installing Shared Network Printer on Windows Vista

admin — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 14:19:28 +0000

This Access Denied error message appears to be affecting quite a few Vista computers trying to get access to a shared printer on a Windows XP computer. When this first happened to me, I fiddled around for ages before finding the solution in the Microsoft TechNet forum.

To install your Shared Printer on your Vista computer do the following:

Go to Control Panel
Double click on Printer
Click on Add Printer
Select Add a Local Printer
Click on Create a new port
Select Local Port from drop down list (this is the default setting … don’t change it)
Click Next
A box will appear asking you to create a port name. Type in \\computername\printername where “computername” is the name of the computer that has the printer physically installed, and “printername” is the sharing name you assigned to the printer. Eg. My computer name was Office, and the printer sharing name was hpprinter, so I typed \\Office\hpprinter
Press OK and follow prompts to select your printers driver from list.
Wait for install to complete and print a test page.

Hopefully you can now print to your shared printers from your nice shiny new Vista computer

HP Director does not load after Internet Explorer 7 upgrade

admin — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 16:11:15 +0000

If you own an HP multifunction printer and have recently upgraded to IE7 you will probably find that HP Director no longer works. To resolve this problem:

Go to www.hp.com
Click on “Software & Driver Downloads”
Enter your printer model
Select your Operating System (Windows Vista, XP, 2000 etc)
Scroll down to “Updates” section and find update labelled “Critical update to resolve an issue with HP Director after installing Internet Explorer 7“.
Download update and follow prompts to install.

Voila! HP Director should now work again.