HP 7260 PhotoSmart Printer

Yes, I have Googled for it, but from the instructions that I found:

Printed Images Contain White or Single Color Streaks HP Photosmart 7260 Photo Printer - HP technical support (Turkey - English)

It seems that they are talking about accessing it from a settings tab of the printer in Devices and Printers, but when I get to where is sound that they are speaking of, I don't find anything, except a window that says to acess this from Devices and Printers, exactly where I started from, but there is nothing there of this sort. I think that the instructions that I link are obsolete, and probably for XP, since it talk about accessing Devices and Printers from the Control Panel, instead of directly from the Start Menu. On XP x32, there is some software that can be installed that includes this...I think, but even that doesn't work in XP x64.

The Howling Wolves said:

Seekermeister,
Do you have a maintenance tool for this printer.
If so, there should be a place where it will clean and or align heads.
Do several head cleanings until the test page meets your satisfaction.
THW

A point I didn't make explicitly: the heads should all be working with new cartridges. Running software to clean the heads should be unnecessary.

Okay, forget about the cleaning, how would one do an alignment, since I've not found any kind of maintenance tools in Devices and Printers, and there doesn't seem to be any kind of downloadable software for this purpose?

I haven't tried it on the 7260 yet, but I found that there is a Setup button on the printer itself, that displays a menu of functions, including cleaning of the cartridges and alignment. However using my 5510v to test this out, cleaning the cartridges made no difference in the output, and when I attempted the alignment, it printed the alignment test page, but when I tried to scan it, the printer said that it couldn't detect the alignment page and aborted.

If you are referring to lining up the test page on the scanner, then yes I'm sure.

Hi everyone,

I have a HP C8180 Photosmart printer that would not work with my new Windows 7 pc. I did the research, went thru HP online and downloaded the newer drivers and everything seems to be okay with my new machine so far. BUT, since I did that, my son's Vista pc will not connect to the printer. He uninstalls his driver and re-installs it in order to connect to the printer. He has to do this on every re-start now.

My question is this: If he updates his driver thru HP online for his Vista pc the way I did for my Windows 7 pc, will it change anything on the printer that might screw up my connection or functionality with it???

The Vista driver is clearly a different driver than the Windows 7 driver on the HP website. I'm just wondering if downloading another driver on a different pc changes anything in the printer itself, or just on the pc.

Thank you.