HP Photosmart 320,370,7400,8100,8400 Series Printer Software Readme v6.0 For additional up-to-date support information about HP Photosmart printers please see our web site at: "http://www.hp.com/support". You should check for any available HP software updates for your HP product. Periodically, Microsoft releases updates that contain important fixes for released operating systems and other software. Some of these updates and fixes may be required for proper operation of the HP software. Microsoft updates are available from the Microsoft support website: "http://support.microsoft.com/". To install the HP software, Internet Explorer version 5.01 or higher is required. You can upgrade to the latest version of Microsoft Internet Explorer from the Microsoft Internet Explorer support website: "http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/support" Contents: 1. Troubleshooting Notes 2. Memory Card Access Notes 3. Input/Output Notes 4. Application Interactions 1. Troubleshooting Notes ------------------------ 1.1 Unable to re-establish connection between PC and printer after printer is turned off using the printer's power button. Solution: Disconnect the power cord from the back of the printer for 10 seconds, reconnect the power cord, then turn the printer on using the power button. If the problem persists, disconnect the power cord from the back of the printer and restart the PC. After the PC has restarted, reconnect the power cord to the printer and power it on. 1.2 Printer does not work after upgrading the operating System from Windows 98, Windows 98SE, or Windows ME to Windows 2000 or Windows XP. Solution: Disconnect the printer. Uninstall the printer software by selecting "Photosmart 320,370,7400,8100,8400 Series" from Add/Remove Programs in the Windows Control Panel. Restart the system, then run the Setup.exe program on the software CD that came with the printer. Follow the installation directions. 1.3 Installation fails when computer is started with two printers attached. Solution: First disconnect both printers. Then uninstall the printer software by selecting "Photosmart 320,370,7400,8100,8400 Series" from Add/Remove Programs in the Windows Control Panel. Restart the system. Reinstall the printer software by running the Setup.exe program on the software CD that came with the printer. When prompted to attach a printer, attach only one printer. Only after installation of the first printer has completed, attach the second printer. The second printer will install automatically. 1.4 After disconnecting and uninstalling an earlier series Photosmart printer, your new Photosmart series printer no longer works. Solution: Disconnect the new printer. Then uninstall the printer software by selecting "Photosmart 320,370,7400,8100,8400 Series" from Add/Remove Programs in the Windows Control Panel. Restart the system. Reinstall the printer software by running the Setup.exe program on the software CD that came with the printer. Follow the installation instructions. 1.5 The installation process pauses and appears to have stopped, but the PC is still showing disk drive activity. Solution: In some cases, the software installer needs to search for and update certain modules on the system, and this may take several minutes to complete. Wait for the necessary operations to complete. 1.6 In Windows 98 and Windows 98 SE, the printer sometimes will not reconnect when you bring the system out of Standby mode. Solution: Reboot the computer and the printer should reconnect. 1.7 When printing more than one image on the same page, and "Borderless Auto Fit" is selected in the printer properties, some of the images appear to be cut off. Solution: Do no use "Borderless Auto fit" when printing more than one image per page. It is intended to be used only for printing a single image. 1.8 If an install fails or is canceled before it is completed, and subsequent installation attempts are unsuccessful as well. Solution: Disconnect the printer. Then uninstall the printer software by selecting "Photosmart 320,370,7400,8100,8400 Series" from Add/Remove Programs in the Windows Control Panel. Restart the system. Install the printer software by running the Setup.exe program on the software CD that came with the printer. Follow the installation instructions. Do not connect the printer until instructed to do so. 1.9 If your printer is connected to a local network that is running firewall software and you change the IP address of the printer, the printer may not be rediscovered by the system. Solution: Temporarily disable the firewall softare. The printer should be discovered. Restart the firewall software. 1.10 If you experience trouble unloading images from an image capture device while a screen saver or power management feature is activated Solution: Disable these features during the unload operation. The settings of these features can be configured from the Windows Control Panel. 2. Memory Card Access Notes --------------------------- Never pull a memory card out during a read or write access. This action may leave the memory card corrupted and the images unreadable. The light next to the memory card slot on the printer lights up when a card is inserted and blinks during a read or write access. In order to safely remove the memory card, right-click the card icon in the Windows system tray and select "Prepare to remove card". Then wait for the memory card light to stop blinking. If possible, format memory cards with the image capture device in which they are normally used. Do not use Windows Explorer to format cards. The NTFS File system (available in Windows 2K and XP) is not supported on memory cards. Do not attempt to format a memory card with the NTFS file system. 3. Input/Output Notes --------------------- When the printer is connected and is working properly, it is normal that several "Dot4" device entries appear in the Windows Device Manager (for example: Dot4, Dot4Print, Dot4Usb, and Dot4 Setup Support). 4. Application Interactions --------------------------- General: After a print job, some applications do not save or remember changes made to Printer Properties in the printer driver software. Properties may be required to be set for each print job. Roxio Easy CD Creator 5: Issues can occur when running Roxio Easy CD Creator 5 and the printer software at the same time on Windows 2000 and Windows XP. Update Easy CD Creator 5 with patches from the Roxio website: "http://www.roxio.com/en/support/ecdc/software_updatesv5.jhtml"Download Driver Pack
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