HP Deskjet 720C printer does not work on Vista 64 - help!

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chrislloyd2

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Hi,

Hope somebody can help with this. I have a new Vista Premium 64, it has it's own driver for the above parallel port printer (about 10 years old!), which is installed. If you try to print the job will spool and sometimes the printer will spew out a blank page or two, but usually the printer just makes a noise to start up printing and then the power light just blinks, the job disappears from the print job window in vista - and thats ya lot! Any thoughts/ help appreciated.

Regards,

Chris
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    Intel Core 2 Duo T5800 @ 2.0Ghz
    Motherboard
    Intel
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    4GB
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    Nvidia 9650M GT
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    Asus N80VN-X1 Laptop
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    1280 X 800
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    1 X 250GB 5200 RPM
    Internet Speed
    11 MBPS
    Other Info
    XBOX 360 Controller | Vista X64 | Simpledrive 500GB
Yes, the HP website does not offer a vista 64 driver for this printer. It is integral with vista and is the one I am currently using. It does not seem to be working, hence my post. Any thoughts appreciated.

Regards,

Chris
 

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oops sorry.....saw WIn Vista X64 mentioned there so thought they might have a separate Driver.

Neways shoot an e-mail to HP support with your problem.
Lets see what they say.
 

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  • CPU
    Intel Core 2 Duo T5800 @ 2.0Ghz
    Motherboard
    Intel
    Memory
    4GB
    Graphics card(s)
    Nvidia 9650M GT
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Asus N80VN-X1 Laptop
    Screen Resolution
    1280 X 800
    Hard Drives
    1 X 250GB 5200 RPM
    Internet Speed
    11 MBPS
    Other Info
    XBOX 360 Controller | Vista X64 | Simpledrive 500GB
Unfortunately, HP will not work with these printers because they are labeled obsolete.

deltatux
 

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    Sapphire ATi Radeon HD 3650
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    Hitachi 320 GB SATA HDD w/ 16MB cache
I got my Vista64 (Home Premium SP1) to print to a DJ722c this way:

1. Installed it on a XP-Pro SP2 system as a 720c (not a 722c) using a parallel port.
2. shared it.
3. connect to if from the Vista machine over the network.

I'm not sure if the Vista machine used it's built in driver, or pulled it from the XP host, but it works. I don't have a 1284 parallel port on my Vista machine, but if I did, I'd probably try extracting the XP driver files and use them to install the printer on Vista locally. Hope this helps someone....
 
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No company is going to support a 10 year old device, that's simply not good for business. They simply can't put that kind of man-hours into supporting the few old printer models that may still be used by a few people. You won't find many folks with 10 year old printers, and even less when you talk a specific model...so no company is going to waste time writing drivers for (maybe) 20 legacy printers that may be in use. And then try to get them to do that for all the models they made 10 years ago...not a chance.

About 3 to 4 years is the norm for most hardware it seems.
 

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    4G's Crucial Ballistix Tracer DDR2 PC26400 RAM
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    BFG 8800GTS OC2 320MB
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    Creative Sound Blaster X-FI Platinum FATAL1TY (next)
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Indeed - we had one of those 720s - worked great until someone fed some pages into it that were stapled together - then, buh-bye printer, as it cost more to fix it than to bu a newer model with better features.
 

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    Windows 10 Pro X64 Insider Preview (Skip Ahead) latest build
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    The Beast Model V (homebrew)
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    Intel Core i7 965 EE @ 3.6 GHz
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    eVGA X58 Classified 3 (141-GT-E770-A1)
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    3 * Mushkin 998981 Redline Enhanced triple channel DDR3 4 GB CL7 DDR3 1600 MHz (PC3-12800)
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    eVGA GeForce GTX 970 SSC ACX 2.0 (04G-P4-3979-KB)
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    2 * Lenovo LT2323pwA Widescreeen
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    SanDisk Ultra SDSSDHII-960G-G25 960 GB SATA III SSD (System) Crucial MX100 CT256MX100SSD1 256GB SATA III SSD (User Tree) 2 * Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 ST31000528AS 1TB 7200 RPM SATA II Mech. HD Seagate ST1500DL001-9VT15L Barracuda 7200.12 1.5 TB S
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    Thermaltake Black Widow TX TR2 850W 80+ Bronze Semi-Mod ATX
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    ThermalTake Level 10 GT (Black)
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    Corsair H100 (CPU, dual 140 mm fans on radiator) + Air (2 *
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    Logitech MX Master (shared)
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    Logitech G15 (gen 2)
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    AT&T Lightspeed Gigabit duplex
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    AT&T LightSpeed Gigabit Duplex
I am also still using an HP Deskjet 722c as my printer. It is a wonderful machine, holds a ton of ink, replaces the head with each new cartridge and has never given me the slightest problem. I am also seeking to still use it with my new Vista computer. I sure am glad cars aren't like computers.
 

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