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14 years ago

Husband has W/XP pro with a Hewlit-Packard printer 1210 all-in-one printer, scanner & copier. It's leaving streaks on the pictures. I can't for the life of me find instructions for checking ink levels and cleaning print nozzles. I've gone to control panel and clicked on printer, but so far haven't found anything about those topics. Any suggestions would be welcome.

Thanks,

Jann

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zep516
14 years ago
Would this link help let us know.

Here is a link that might be useful: Hewlit-Packard printer 1210 all-in-one printer
owbist
14 years ago
Hmm this is a fairly old printer, HP stopped updating drivers back in 2003 so I would definitely not suggest investing any money in repairs.

You might try setting the print quality higher. My HP besides the 'normal' quality has 'best' and 'photo', I would try the 'best' setting and see if that improves things.
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Witz- you are almost right, except there's nothing listed in control panel for this all-in-one except the photography portion. However, I discovered quite by accident that if I go into a wordfile and click File > Print > Properties, a tab comes up that says Printer Services. And if you click on that, it says "Open HP toolbox" !!!!!!! It gave me exactly what I needed. Except for the knife, gun, or bazooka I'm going to use on my husband for ***not*** telling me he'd put in an ancient cartridge--that would have imediately alerted me to the fact that the red ink was probably dried up. Soon as we put in a fresh new one, it printed just fine. and having found the tool box, I could run the tests to make sure all was as it should be. I do thank all of you so much for your continuing efforts to help. You're all welcome to come visit hubby in the hospital, if he survives what I entend to do to him! Cheers, Jann
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There are lots of decent photo printers out there. Which one you pick depends in part on how much you want to spend and in part on how large your DIL will want to print. If she's doing photo shoots with clients, my guess is that she'll want to have the option to print big. I have this one, and can recommend it highly. It prints up to 13 x 19". Because of this, the printer itself takes up a lot of room. It wouldn't do for a small desk. The Canon line of photo printers has a good reputation. You might do an Amazon search and check out the different models and reviews. Epson has a good rep, too, but I don't recommend it because of so many reports of ink clogs if the printer isn't used often enough. I had an HP photo printer for years and was happy with it, but I don't know anything about their current line. One possibility is that your DIL might want to print her own occasionally, and for casual photos, but send the pro images out. That's what I did when I was exhibiting, uploading my image files to Mpix.com. They do beautiful work. You sound like a good mother-in-law!
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kudzu9
14 years ago
Streaking in pictures that you print is often caused by the cartridge head being clogged or the ink starting to run out. Follow the directions below. If that doesn't work, either try a new color cartridge, or chuck the old printer and get a new one. There are a number of good quality printers that retail for about $100.

Here is a link that might be useful: Fixing streaking
notjannaz10
Original Author
14 years ago
Sorry for long delay in replying--I only go on line about once a week and missed last week's opportunity.

Hubby solved the problem with a new ink cartridge. It was probably that all along. It was just that I couldn't for the life of me find where to "troubleshoot" that printer. My Lexmarks are so simple even I can do them--lol.

Thanks all for the recommendations. I'll save them for "next time", as I'm sure there'll be one.

Jann
kudzu9
14 years ago
jamaz-
Glad it was a simple solution. And your update is useful for other people to know how something gets fixed.

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