HP Photosmart 7700 Driver

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HP Photosmart 7700 Driver

I am trying to connect my macbook to a wireless HP Photosmart 7760 printer but for some reason i cannot find the driver under the printer settings. when i try to download the driver from the hp website it says it is already installed in OS X v10.5.3 (What i have). should i use a different driver, is there another way to get it, or am i just not looking in the right places.

Macbook, Mac OS X (10.5.3), Black

Posted on Jun 23, 2008 9:25 PM

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Answer 1

Jun 28, 2008 8:50 AM in response to shlem90

I looked into it some more and found something that at least half-way works.

I picked "Select a Driver to Use" when adding a printer, and picked the HP Photosmart 7550 Gutenprint 5.1.3. It prints text fine but photos look pretty bad. But at least it doesn't spit out 20 pages of gibberish.

Hope that helps for now.

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Answer 2

Aug 22, 2008 1:25 PM in response to Apollo_I3

Does the printer work when you direct connect it to your computer?
Or:

Try resetting the printer drivers.
Then:
Turn off your printer first.
Restart your computer, then turn on the printer.
And then goto add a printer and see what happens.

My wireless HP scans perfectly, I bought the computer first, then the printer.
I made sure to stay away from the stupid ones.....

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Message was edited by: Donald Palmer

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Answer 3

Jun 30, 2008 7:32 PM in response to shlem90

colleagues, i have the same problem. seems like a severe conflict between leopard and the preexisting hp scanner driver. check out this address. the fix seems very complicated and i am afraid to install this fix without further guidance from apple. yeah apple says its an hp problem but i think its a mutual problem. apple are you reading?

http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?docname=c01396146&lc=en&cc=us&dlc=en &product=1832919&lang=en

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klmfvej

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Aug 22, 2008 12:45 PM in response to baynephron

lol, screw it... I'm just going to buy a card reader and shuttle the files i need printed to the **** printer itself via the memory card slots, ***** but it's better than garbled wasted paper and ink. You'd think that these * would know some people would appreciate a simple thing like updating their **** products software because people don't want to throw away their stupid $400 printer they wasted money on.

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Answer 5

Jun 27, 2008 10:59 PM in response to shlem90

Tagged.
I too am looking for the same thing for the 7760.

I've run the install app twice. If I have to point it to a driver somewhere on the computer, the where would I find it? So far I've been unsuccessful.

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klmfvej

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Aug 22, 2008 8:10 PM in response to Donald Palmer

sorry i posted under the wrong printer, i searched for 7550 and thought this was on topic for that printer, i don't think it's relevant. I did try everything but it still comes up looking garbled. I did a test print via the printer alone and it's fine, so there isn't a driver that seems to work for this printer and Leopard.

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